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15. This "added-worker effect" could support the safety net offered by unemployment insurance or disability insurance to help families weather bad times.
【分析】簡單句。句子主干為 This "added-worker effect" could support the safety net。過去分詞結構 offered by...disability insurance 作后置定語；不定式結構 to help...作目的狀語。
【譯文】這種“附加勞動力效應”可以加強由失業保險和傷殘保險所提供的社會保障體系，以幫助家庭渡過難關。
【點撥】1) 注意句中的幾個表達：safety net 指“社會保障體系”；unemployment insurance 指“失業保險”；disability insurance 指“傷殘保險”。2) weather 在句中作動詞，意為“平安渡過（危機），經歷（危難）而存活”。
【臨摹】許多小公司沒能經受住這次經濟衰退的風波。
16. Steelworkers, airline employees, and now those in the auto-industry are joining millions of families who must worry about interest rates, stock market fluctuation and the harsh reality that they may outlive their retirement money.
【分析】復合句。主句主干為：Steelworkers, airline employees, and now those...are joining millions of families。who 引導的定語從句修飾 families；在該從句中，名詞短語 interest rates, stock market fluctuation，及 the harsh reality 構成并列平行結構，共同作 worry about 的賓語。句末 that 引導的從句作 reality 的同位語。
【譯文】鋼鐵工人、航空公司雇員以及現在的汽車業職員正在加入那些擔心利率、股市波動和退休金不夠用的數百萬家庭的行列。
