英语新闻听写 美国失业率降至十年来最低

The number of jobs aren't increasing much, but unemployment is still falling. According to CBS News, the Labor¹ Department reports employers pumped the brakes on hiring in March. Just 98,000 jobs were added--but still, the unemployment rate fell to 4.5 percent--the lowest in nearly a decade.

工作机会并没有增长太多，不过失业率依然在下降。据CBS新闻报道，美国劳工部称雇主在三月份对雇佣采取了收放策略。新增工作仅有98000份，但是失业率依然降到了4.5%，几乎是十年来的最低值。

Unseasonably warm weather in February is credited with creating new jobs in construction--but they froze up and blew away in March, when cold weather arrived once more. The retail² sector³ also took a drubbing. It's been losing about 30,000 jobs a month for the past two months--the worst since 2009.

二月份异常温暖的天气有利于建筑行业创造新工作——但是三月份天气转冷以后，它们就消失不见了。零售行业也遭遇了打击。它在过去两个月中已经减少了30000份工作，是2009年以来最糟糕的情况。

1 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

2 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。

3 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。