新视野大学英语第三版读写教程第三册UNIT7课文及翻译(A+B篇) .pdfVIP

TEXT A Surviving an economic crisis 经济危机中求生存 1 The economic slump so many people suffered through originated in the United States, with a regulatory failure of mortgages rated less risky than they turned out to be. As large numbers of homeowners proved unable to repay their loans, the companies that had the oversight and those that owned the loans (as well as their subsidiaries and their shareholders) lost sizable amounts of money. The effects of these drastic losses soon spiraled into the US job market as layoffs and terminations. The rebound was slow in coming. Many people experienced long months of struggles just like the character in this story. 许许多多的人正经历的这场经济萧条发端于美国。 对抵押贷款监管不力， 致使当时的风险评 估远低于现在的最终结果。 由于大量的房产所有人无法偿还贷款， 负责监管的公司、 放贷的 公司 （以及其子公司及股份持有者） 都损失了大笔的金钱。 这些巨额亏损的后果很快就影响 到美国就业市场，造成下岗或解雇。 经济复兴迟迟不来。 许多人几个月来都是苦苦挣扎，正 如下面故事中的主人公那样。 2 Facing tenant eviction after several months of unpaid rent, Sue Johnson packed up whatever she could fit into her two -door automobile and drove out of town. 苏 ·约翰逊有好几个月都未付房租了，面临着被逐出的境地，她把能塞进她的那辆双门轿车 的东西都打包收拾好，离城而去。 3 She wound up at a motel, putting down the $260 she had managed to scrape together from friends and from selling her living room set. It was all the money Sue had left after her unemployment benefits had expired. She faced life as a migrant, a previously unimaginable situation for a woman who, not that long before, had held a corporate job in a large metropolitan city and was enrolled in a graduate business school. 她最后在一家汽车旅馆落脚， 交付了 260 美元的定金， 这还是她设法从朋友那儿以及卖掉家 具后凑齐的， 是苏在失业救济金被终止后所有的余钱。 她面临流浪生活， 这在以前是难以想 象的，而她不久以前都还在大都市里一家公司供职，并就读于商学院研究生班。 4 Sue knew that in all likelihood, she would end up living in her car. She was part of a hard - luck group of jobless people wh