万花筒 2009-11-010&11-11 美国失业率破十

The unemployment rate, John, is 10.2 %, it is worse than economists¹ have been expecting 10.2 percent. We have hit double-digits on the unemployment rate now. And it is the highest since the early 1980s.The number of job lost: 190,000 jobs lost in the month, that is a little worse than we had thought, as well 190,000 jobs lost to street who've been looking for may be 175,000 jobs lost. Let me tell you though, at 190,000 jobs lost that still is a slowing pace of jobs lost for the year. And it is still, by my count, the least number of jobs lost in about a year, a little more than a year, so you can look at these numbers and say, the number of jobs that we are losing, shedding² every month is getting smaller and smaller, but that unemployment rate is worrying, John.

 Caring, John, when you have 10.2 % unemployment, in the modern economy that tells you that there are a lot of people out there with good skills, good education, who are hard workers, who are ready to go. But the economy is not giving them the opportunities. So let me continue to go through these numbers for you, but bottom line here, the job losses continue to slow month by month, by month by month. But that's not stopping the unemployment rate, the unemployment rate is at 10.2 percent.

 

1 economists   

n.经济学家，经济专家( economist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
• Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 shedding   

n.脱落，蜕落v.流出( shed的现在分词 )；流下；蜕皮；树叶脱落

参考例句：

• The factory is shedding a large number of jobs. 这家工厂正大批裁员。
• The trees began shedding their leaves. 树木开始落叶。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》