奥巴马每周电视讲话：总统呼吁确保2014成为推动经济增长的一年

奥巴马每周电视讲话：总统呼吁确保2014成为推动经济增长的一年

Hi, everybody.
大家好！
Yesterday, we learned that in 2013, our businesses created 2.2 million new jobs-including 87,000 last month.
昨天，我们了解到，在2013年，我们的企业创造了220万个新岗位—包括上月创造的87,000个。
Our unemployment rate is the lowest it has been since October 2008.
我们的失业率为2008年以来的最低水平。
And across our broader economy, there are signs of progress.
在我们整个更广泛的经济，出现了稳步前进的迹象。
Our manufacturing and housing sectors¹ are rebounding².
我们的制造和住房行业正在反弹。
Our energy, technology, and auto³ sectors are booming.
我们的能源、技术和汽车行业正迅速发展。
Thanks in part to the reforms in the Affordable⁴ Care Act, health care costs now eat up less of our economy-over the past four years, costs have grown at the slowest rate on record.
部分由于《平价医疗法案》改革，现在，卫生保健成本消耗我们经济的量更少了—过去四年，卫生保健成本一直在以有史以来的最低速度增长。
And since I took office, we've cut our deficits⁵ by more than half.
自我就任总统以来，我们已把赤字削减了一半还多。
Thanks to the hard work and sacrifice of the American people, our economy is growing stronger.
由于美国人民的努力工作和牺牲，我们的经济正变得更加强大。
But we know we've got more work to do together.
但我们知道，我们还有更多要一起完成的工作。
Our success as a country depends on more than the success of our broader economy-it depends on the success of the American people.
我们作为一个国家的成功，不只取决于我们更广泛经济的成功—它取决于美国人民的成功。
It depends on your ability to make ends meet, provide for your families, and, with a little hard work, feel like you can get ahead.
它取决于你维持生计、供养家庭和通过些许努力工作就感觉你可以过上更好生活的能力。
So we've got to keep our economy growing, and make sure more Americans have the opportunity to share in that growth.
因此，我们要继续发展经济，确保更多美国人有机会分享这一增长。
We've got to keep creating jobs that offer new opportunity, and make sure those jobs offer the wages and benefits that let you rebuild some security.
我们要继续创造提供新机会的工作，确保那些工作提供让你重建一些保障的工资和福利。
We've got more kids to educate, and families to get covered with health insurance, and an immigration system to fix.
我们有更多孩子要接受教育，有家庭要享受医疗保险，有移民系统要修复。
And we've got to make sure this recovery leaves no one behind.
我们要确保这一恢复不丢下每一个人。
This will be a year of action.
今年将是行动之年。
I'll keep doing everything I can to create new jobs and new opportunities for American families-with Congress, on my own, and with everyone willing to play their part.
我将继续尽我所能为，与国会、愿意加入进来的每个人一起，为美国家庭创造新工作和新机会。
And that action should begin by extending unemployment insurance for Americans who were laid off in the recession through no fault of their own.
这一行动，应以为并非因为自身过失而在经济衰退中失去工作的美国人延长失业保险作为开始。
This vital economic lifeline helps people support their families while they look for a new job.
失业保险这一极其重要的生命线，帮助人们在寻找新工作期间维持家庭生计。
And it demands responsibility in return by requiring that they prove they're actively⁶ looking for work.
作为交换，它要求失业者有责任证明其正积极寻找工作。
But Republicans in Congress just let that lifeline expire for 1.3 million Americans.
但国会共和党人却让这一生命线对130万美国人过期失效。
And if this doesn't get fixed⁷, it will actually hurt about 14 million Americans over the course of this year.
如果这一情况不能得到解决，在接下来的这一年，它将实际伤害1400万美国人。
Earlier this week, Democrats⁸ and Republicans in the Senate took the first steps toward making this right.
本周早些时候，参议院的民主党人和共和党人采取了纠正这一问题的首批步骤。
But Congress needs to finish the job right away. More than one million Americans across the country will feel a little hope right away.
国会需要立刻完成这一工作。全国各地的一百多万美国人将立刻感到一些希望。
Working folks are looking for the kind of stable, secure jobs that went overseas in the past couple decades.
工薪阶层正寻求过去几十年转移到海外的那种稳定、可靠工作。
So next week, I'll join companies and colleges and take action to boost the high-tech⁹ manufacturing that attracts the kind of good new jobs a growing middle class requires.
因此，下周，我将与企业和大学一道，采取行动推动高技术制造业，吸引壮大中产阶级所需要的这类好的新工作。
Business owners are ready to play their part and hire more workers.
企业主已准备加入进来雇佣更多的工人。
So next week, I'll be joined by college presidents as we lay out specific steps we can take to help more workers earn the skills they need for today's new jobs.
因此，下周，我将与大学校长们一起商讨可以帮助更多工人掌握当今新工作所需技能的具体措施。
Later this month I'll host CEOs at the White House to announce commitments we're making to put more of the long-term unemployed¹⁰ back to work.
本月晚些时候，我将在白宫招待首席执行官们，宣布我们正在做出的让更多长期失业者重返工作的承诺。
And at the end of the month, in my State of the Union Address, I will mobilize the country around the national mission of making sure our economy offers everyone who works hard a fair shot at opportunity and success.
在本月底，在国情咨文中，我将围绕确保美国经济为每个努力工作的人提供尝试和成功的公平机会这一国家使命动员全国。
As Americans, that's what we should expect.
作为美国人，这是我们所应该期盼的。
And after everything you've done to recover and rebuild from crisis these past five years-after all your hard work and sacrifice-that's what you deserve.
经过过去五年为了从危机中恢复和重建你所做的一切—经过所有你的努力工作和牺牲，这是你所应得的。
Thanks, and have a great weekend.
谢谢大家！祝你们周末愉快！

1 sectors   

n.部门( sector的名词复数 )；领域；防御地区；扇形

参考例句：

• Berlin was divided into four sectors after the war. 战后柏林分成了4 个区。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Industry and agriculture are the two important sectors of the national economy. 工业和农业是国民经济的两个重要部门。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

2 rebounding   

蹦跳运动

参考例句：

• The strength of negative temperature concrete is tested with supersonic-rebounding method. 本文将超声回弹综合法用于负温混凝土强度检测。
• The fundamental of basketball includes shooting, passing and catching, rebounding, etc. 篮球运动中最基本的东西包括投篮，传接球，篮板球等。

3 auto   

n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车

参考例句：

• Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
• The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。

4 affordable   

adj.支付得起的，不太昂贵的

参考例句：

• The rent for the four-roomed house is affordable.四居室房屋的房租付得起。
• There are few affordable apartments in big cities.在大城市中没有几所公寓是便宜的。

5 deficits   

n.不足额( deficit的名词复数 )；赤字；亏空；亏损

参考例句：

• The Ministry of Finance consistently overestimated its budget deficits. 财政部一贯高估预算赤字。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Many of the world's farmers are also incurring economic deficits. 世界上许多农民还在遭受经济上的亏损。 来自辞典例句

6 actively   

adv.积极地，勤奋地

参考例句：

• During this period all the students were actively participating.在这节课中所有的学生都积极参加。
• We are actively intervening to settle a quarrel.我们正在积极调解争执。

7 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

8 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 high-tech   

adj.高科技的

参考例句：

• The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展，这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
• The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。

10 unemployed   

adj.失业的，没有工作的；未动用的，闲置的

参考例句：

• There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
• The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。