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Here we introduce you to seven Americans who recently lost work.
我們?cè)谶@兒向您介紹七位最近失業(yè)的美國(guó)人，
Each is representative of a cohort whose fortunes improved over the course of the last decade.
每個(gè)人都代表了一個(gè)群體，他們的財(cái)富在過(guò)去十年中有所改善。
First one.
第一個(gè)人。
Senae Dillard was laid off in March from a job she had started just two weeks earlier.
塞納·迪拉德三月份遭到解雇，她兩周前才剛開(kāi)始工作。
The Dallas-area resident was employed at a health-care services company, where she coordinated appointments and travel for patients scheduled for elective surgery.
這位居住在達(dá)拉斯地區(qū)的居民受雇于一家醫(yī)療服務(wù)公司，她在那負(fù)責(zé)協(xié)調(diào)預(yù)約和安排擇期手術(shù)患者的行程。
"If you had told me I was going to be out of a job, Covid-related or not, I would have said: 'no way, I just started,'" says the 29-year-old.
“如果你告訴我，我要失業(yè)了，不管是否與新冠疫情有關(guān)，我都會(huì)說(shuō)：‘不可能，我剛開(kāi)始工作，’”29歲的她說(shuō)。
"I never thought in a million years it would happen to me—but it can happen to anyone."
“我從來(lái)沒(méi)想過(guò)，這種事情會(huì)發(fā)生在我身上，但任何人都可能碰到這種遭遇?！?/div>
Dillard was among the millions of black Americans who found new employment opportunities in recent years,
迪拉德是近年來(lái)發(fā)現(xiàn)新就業(yè)機(jī)會(huì)的數(shù)百萬(wàn)美國(guó)黑人之一，
pushing the unemployment rate for that category down to an all-time low of 5.4% in August 2019.
這使得該類(lèi)別的失業(yè)率在2019年8月降至最低點(diǎn)5.4%。
She's now receiving weekly unemployment checks, which—thanks to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (Cares) Act Congress, approved in March—add up to more than her monthly pay.
她現(xiàn)在每周都會(huì)收到失業(yè)支票，這多虧了三月份國(guó)會(huì)通過(guò)的《冠狀病毒援助、救濟(jì)和經(jīng)濟(jì)安全法案》，這些款項(xiàng)加起來(lái)超過(guò)了她的月薪。
Getting her claim filed took some doing, though.
不過(guò)，讓她提出索賠需要一些努力。
"I applied for unemployment the day I got laid off," she says.
她說(shuō)：“我下崗那天，就申請(qǐng)了失業(yè)保障。
"I called their hotline and was getting a busy signal. Over three weeks, I probably called 500 to 600 times."
我打了他們的熱線(xiàn)，但聽(tīng)到的卻是忙音。三個(gè)星期后，我大概打了500到600次電話(huà)?！?/div>
Dillard says her main worry these days is that she's among the 28 million Americans without health insurance.
迪拉德說(shuō)，她現(xiàn)在最擔(dān)心的是，她是2800萬(wàn)沒(méi)有醫(yī)療保險(xiǎn)的美國(guó)人中的一員。
"I try to avoid going out as much as possible to avoid getting sick because I worry about not getting good treatment.
“我盡量避免外出，以免生病，因?yàn)槲覔?dān)心得不到良好的治療。
I've seen stories about black women in particular not being taken seriously or being turned away when they go to the hospital."
我看過(guò)一些黑人女性的故事，特別是她們?nèi)メt(yī)院時(shí)，沒(méi)有受到重視或被拒之門(mén)外?！?/div>
She isn't planning on returning to a normal routine until there's a Covid-19 vaccine:
在研制出新冠疫苗之前，她并不打算恢復(fù)到常規(guī)的日常生活之中去：
"They can open up anything they want to, but the fear of the virus is what keeps people from going outside."
“他們可以打開(kāi)任何想打開(kāi)的東西，但對(duì)病毒的恐懼是阻止人們外出的原因。”
| 重點(diǎn)單詞 | 查看全部解釋 | |||
| insurance | [in'ʃuərəns] |
想一想再看 n. 保險(xiǎn)，保險(xiǎn)費(fèi)，安全措施 |
聯(lián)想記憶 | |
| vaccine | ['væksi:n] |
想一想再看 n. 疫苗 |
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| surgery | ['sə:dʒəri] |
想一想再看 n. 外科，外科手術(shù)，診所 |
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| avoid | [ə'vɔid] |
想一想再看 vt. 避免，逃避 |
聯(lián)想記憶 | |
| signal | ['signl] |
想一想再看 n. 信號(hào)，標(biāo)志 |
聯(lián)想記憶 | |
| relief | [ri'li:f] |
想一想再看 n. 減輕，解除，救濟(jì)(品), 安慰，浮雕，對(duì)比 |
聯(lián)想記憶 | |
| representative | [repri'zentətiv] |
想一想再看 adj. 代表性的，代議制的，典型的 |
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| claim | [kleim] |
想一想再看 n. 要求，要求權(quán);主張，斷言，聲稱(chēng);要求物 |
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| measure | ['meʒə] |
想一想再看 n. 措施，辦法，量度，尺寸 |
聯(lián)想記憶 | |
| unemployment | ['ʌnim'plɔimənt] |
想一想再看 n. 失業(yè)，失業(yè)人數(shù) |
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