Greek Workers Strike Against Austerity Measures

 　　Greek unions have started a series of strikes and protests to show their resistance to the new and wide-reaching austerity measures up for a vote in parliament on Thursday.

　　Unions representing job sectors¹ ranging from government workers to sailors and trash collectors took part Monday in strikes and protested at sit-ins at ministry² buildings.

　　The Greek government has been facing growing resistance to the new austerity measures, which were mandated³ by the International Monetary⁴ Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank.  The new cuts are intended to help resolve the debt crisis that has hit the eurozone.

　　Last week, the EU, the IMF and the ECB said Greece would receive its next bailout installment⁵ of $11 billion, provided it reaches the austerity benchmarks Athens promised in exchange for the rescue payments.

　　Thousands of Greek public service workers also walked off their jobs earlier this month to protest the government's austerity measures.

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 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

3 mandated   

adj. 委托统治的

参考例句：

• Mandated desegregation of public schools. 命令解除公立学校中的种族隔离
• Britain was mandated to govern the former colony of German East Africa. 英国受权代管德国在东非的前殖民地。

4 monetary   

adj.货币的，钱的；通货的；金融的；财政的

参考例句：

• The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
• Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。

5 installment   

n.(instalment)分期付款；(连载的)一期

参考例句：

• I shall soon pay the last installment of my debt.不久我将偿付我的最后一期债款。
• He likes to buy things on the installment plan.他喜欢用分期付款法购买货物。