美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-10-27

 Today we are starting with economics¹. When people want to see how a country'seconomy is doing, they can study different indicators², the stock³ market retail⁴ salesfor example. Two other indicators are government report, they comes out everymonth: the national unemployment rate and the number of jobs added we lost.This month's report says in September the economy added 148 thousand jobsthat's fewer than the previous month, also the unemployment rate went down alittle bit to 7.2%. Numbers in this report don't always match up that's becausethe two numbers come from separate surveys. One asks businesses about hiring,the other asks individual households about their employment⁵ status. Same daythat government report came out, a cnn orc poll⁶ came out according to that 71%of Americans think US economy is in a poor shape. 29% say the currentconditions are good. What do you say? If you are 13 and older, go to our blog.If you are already on Facebook, go to our Facebook page, tell us do you thinkthe US economy is getting better, getting worse, or staying the same.

 

Earlier this week, we reported on wildfires burning in Australia. Authority⁷ isexpected today to be about its bad as it gets? High temperatures, low humanity,strong winds. When you are talking about wildfires, that's poor cast? Disaster.These fires stretch nearly a thousand miles. They destroy a hundred of homes. ACNN reporter ask one victim about what she wished she could havesaved.  

 

Photos. Photos from the computer with a, all the computers and the laptop,whatever, whatever, I could have got them from. My photos. Yeah.

 

What is it about?

Honey moon, the wedding. My wedding album, photos miss, a baby, Jake as a baby.We don't have a record of any photo to show my children. You know, grown up.

More than a thousand emergency crews are on the ground. Officials are bringingin 15 hundred more firefighters to help.

1 economics   

n.经济学，经济情况

参考例句：

• He is studying economics,which subject is very important.他正在学习经济学，该学科是很重要的。
• One can't separate politics from economics.不能把政治与经济割裂开来。

2 indicators   

（仪器上显示温度、压力、耗油量等的）指针( indicator的名词复数 )； 指示物； （车辆上的）转弯指示灯； 指示信号

参考例句：

• The economic indicators are better than expected. 经济指标比预期的好。
• It is still difficult to develop indicators for many concepts used in social science. 为社会科学领域的许多概念确立一个指标仍然很难。

3 stock   

n.存货，储备；树干；血统；股份；家畜；adj.存货的；平凡的，惯用的；股票的；畜牧的；vt.进货，采购；储存；供给；vi.出新芽；进货

参考例句：

• The shop takes stock every week on Friday mornings.这家商店每星期五早晨盘点存货。
• Experts have forecast an upturn in the stock market.专家已预测股票市场价格有上升趋势。

4 retail   

v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格

参考例句：

• In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
• These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。

5 employment   

n.雇用；使用；工作，职业

参考例句：

• A large office requires the employment of many people.一个大办事处需要雇用好多人员。
• The state of employment in this city is improving.这个城市就业状况正在改善。

6 poll   

n.民意测验，民意调查，选举投票

参考例句：

• The result of the poll won't be known until midnight.选举结果要到午夜才能揭晓。
• They expected a heavy poll.他们期望会有很高的投票数。

7 authority   

n.当局，官方；权力，权威，威信；当权者

参考例句：

• He is recognized internationally as an authority in this field.国际上承认他是这方面的一个权威。
• Professor White is looked upon as an authority on mathematics.怀特教授被看成数学权威。