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The 26m employed Britons earn on average ￡90 ($112) a day.
兩千六百萬名在職的英國(guó)人每天平均能掙90鎊（112美元）。
Covering the shortfall would cost around ￡120bn a year, equivalent to the budget of the National Health Service.
一年里每周都少上一天班所節(jié)省的費(fèi)用有一千兩百億英鎊，相當(dāng)于英國(guó)國(guó)民醫(yī)療保健制度一年的預(yù)算。
The Greens' proposals encounter two problems.
但是綠黨的提議碰到兩個(gè)問題。
First, the theory.
第一個(gè)是理論方面。
They argue that the reduced hours worked by some could be redistributed to others in order to lower underemployment.
有的人提出一些人減少的工作時(shí)長(zhǎng)將會(huì)被重新分配給其他人，以此來降低不充分就業(yè)。
They thus fall prey to the “l(fā)ump of labour fallacy”, the notion that there is a fixed amount of work to be done which can be shared out in different ways to create fewer or more jobs.
這些人是深受“勞動(dòng)力臃腫謬論”這一觀點(diǎn)困擾；其含義是，需要完成的工作總量是固定的，不過這可以通過不同的方式增加或減少就業(yè)機(jī)會(huì)。
In fact, if people worked fewer hours, demand would drop, and so fewer working hours would be on offer.
但事實(shí)上，如果人們的工作時(shí)間變短，那么對(duì)勞動(dòng)力的需求也會(huì)減少，所以勞動(dòng)力提供的總工作時(shí)長(zhǎng)也會(huì)減少。
Second, the cost.
第二是費(fèi)用。
Increased productivity could cover some of the costs of paying a five-day wage for a four-day week, suggests Sarah Lyall of the New Economics Foundation, a think-tank.
智囊團(tuán)機(jī)構(gòu)新經(jīng)濟(jì)基金會(huì)的Sarah Lyall表示，提高的生產(chǎn)率可能會(huì)由于在四天工作日里支付相當(dāng)于五天工作日的工資而增加了成本。
She points to a Glasgow marketing company that did just that, and experienced a 30% leap in productivity.
她也指出Glasgow營(yíng)銷公司也實(shí)行這個(gè)政策，他們的生產(chǎn)率也上升了30%。
But that is an astonishing increase to expect across the board.
但是各個(gè)方面的成本都有了驚人的增長(zhǎng)。
The Greens say they are in the early stages of exploring the idea and have not yet produced firm costings.
綠黨說他們對(duì)這個(gè)想法的探索還處于初級(jí)階段，也并沒有具體分析這個(gè)政策是否會(huì)影響生產(chǎn)型企業(yè)的成本核算。
It might be useful to do so before next month's local elections.
在下個(gè)月的大選前，他們可能會(huì)在黨內(nèi)實(shí)行這個(gè)政策。
That leaves little time—but presumably the party's policymakers will raise their productivity accordingly.
雖然工作時(shí)間會(huì)減少，但是黨內(nèi)的決策者大概將會(huì)相應(yīng)的提高效率。
譯文來源考研英語(yǔ)時(shí)事閱讀
