经济学人:一周要闻美国失业率破二战后纪录

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Saudi Arabia said it would cut oil production by another 1m barrels a day from next month, furthering its effort to shore up oil prices.
沙特表示，从下个月起，将每日石油产量再削减100万桶，进一步提振油价。

OPEC's deal with Russia last month, which ended their abrupt price war and made record cuts to output, has done little to increase prices.
欧佩克上月与俄罗斯达成的协议结束了两国突然爆发的价格战，并创纪录地削减了石油产量，但该协议对油价的上涨作用甚微。

Saudi Aramco reported thatits net profit had fallen by 25%, year on year, in the first quarter, to $16.7bn.
沙特国家石油公司沙特阿美(Saudi Aramco)报告称，今年第一季度，该公司净利润同比下降25%，至167亿美元。

The state controlled oil company will still pay a shareholder dividend, most of which goes to the Saudi government.
这家国有石油公司仍将向股东派发股息，其中大部分将归沙特政府所有。

With oil revenue sinking, the government is looking at other ways to raise money, and has tripled the kingdom's value-added tax rate to 15%.
随着石油收入下降，政府开始寻找其他筹资途径，并将该国的增值税税率提高了两倍，至15%。

The number for just one month dwarfs the 8.6m jobs that were lost over the whole of 2008 and 2009 during the financial crisis.
could 仅一个月的失业人数就超过了2008年和2009年金融危机期间失去的860万个工作岗位。

The unemployment rate has soared to 14.7%, the highest since the second world war.
失业率飙升至14.7%，是二战以来的最高水平。

Steven Mnuchin, the treasury secretary, conceded that it could hit 25% in the coming months, a level last seen during the Depression.
财政部长史蒂芬·姆努钦(Steven Mnuchin)承认，未来几个月失业率可能会达到25%，这是大萧条时期的最高水平。

Stock markets took fright after Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, warned that more stimulus from Congress will be required.
美联储委员会主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔(Jerome Powell)警告称，国会将出台更多刺激措施，股市因此受到惊吓。

The Democrats have proposed an extra $3trn in spending, though their plan is not supported by Republicans.
民主党已经提议增加3万亿美元的支出，尽管他们的计划并未得到共和党的支持。

Despite avoiding a prolonged lockdown, the South Korean economy shed almost half a million jobs in April, the most since 1999 at the tail end of the Asian financial crisis.
尽管没有实施长时间的封锁措施，4月份的韩国经济还是减少了近50万个工作岗位，这是自1999年亚洲金融危机结束以来最多的一次。

The pandemic has created a "wartime situation" in the economy, said the country's president, Moon Jae-in.
韩国总统文在寅表示，大流行导致韩国经济出现了“战时局面”。

Britain's economy was 2% smaller in the first quarter than in the previous three months, the fastest rate of contraction since the global financial crisis of 2007-09.
英国经济第一季度比前三个月萎缩了2%，这是自2007-09年全球金融危机以来萎缩速度最快的一次。

Britain's lockdown began in late March; the economy was 5.8% smaller in that month than it was in February.
英国的封锁始于三月下旬;当月的经济规模比2月份萎缩了5.8%。

A study by academics at the London Business School found that household spending has plunged by 40-50% during the crisis.
伦敦商学院(London Business School)学者的一项研究发现，危机期间的家庭支出下降了40-50%。

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1.economy 经济

She preached economy as the best means of solving the crisis.
她大力鼓吹节约是解决危机的关键OxB9ja#Nmko。

2.crisis 危机

Many companies have been sent under in the economic crisis.
在这次经济危机中，已有许多公司倒闭了*d(ibIVeZ8l.x。

3.academics 学术水平

The very idea would be foreign and unacceptable to main stream academics.
这种想法对主流学者而言是外来的和不能接受的5dr4o|AZ5U)*nc9MC=Z。

4.shrink 萎缩

After years of good growth, the economy will shrink this year.
在多年的增长之后，该国经济将会在今年萎缩e[))5P;qOveSI。

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