CNN 2010-01-06

Avoided spleeping into the depression into the recent financial crisis, but it did end into a recession. You know it, you heard about it all last semester. Now when that economy decline started in December 2007. The number of Americans who are out of jobs was around 5%, by last November, that number has doubled.Kitty Pilgrim examined what might lie ahead in 2010.

Happy new year, more than 15 million people in the country are unemployed¹, many of them lost their jobs in 2009, what’s ahead in 2010? Elena Escalona, who spoke² to us late last year about her career hope after sending out dozens of resumes and searching for a job. She suddenly realized what she wanted to do in life.

Luckily, out of all of these,something that really positive that has come out of, but I discovered that I want to be a teacher and I would never have discovered that without, you know, this entire year. I am looking for the job, that having a job physically³ handed to me I’ve really had to fight for it and kind of you know discover where I belong in the world.

As the unemploy sites/ so search, there is some glimmer⁴ of hope. The last report in December found that new claims for unemployment benefits fell sharply, down by 22,000. that is the lowest level since July,2008. And the four average of people who fight for benefits has been declining for 17 weeks.

1 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。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。

4 glimmer   

v.发出闪烁的微光；n.微光，微弱的闪光

参考例句：

• I looked at her and felt a glimmer of hope.我注视她，感到了一线希望。
• A glimmer of amusement showed in her eyes.她的眼中露出一丝笑意。