2021年6月大学英语六级考试.docxVIP

What can be done about mass unemployment? All the wise heads agree: there’re no quick or easy answers. 应该怎样应对大规模失业问题呢? 全部聪慧人全部认为：没有快捷或简单答案。 There’s work to be done, but workers aren’t ready to do it—they’re in the wrong places, or they have the wrong skills, Our problems are “structural,” and will take many years to solve. 工作是有，不过劳动者没有做好准备—她们要么跑错了地方，要么技能不对口。我们问题是结构性，需要很多年才能处理。 But don’t bother asking for evidence that justifies this bleak view. 不过，别费心为这种消极论调寻求佐证了。 There isn’t any. On the contrary, all the facts suggest that high unemployment in America is the result of inadequate demand. Saying that there’re no easy answers sounds wise. But it’s actually foolish: 根本就没有证据。恰恰相反，全部事实全部表明美国高失业率是需求不足后果。说没有简单答案，这听上去很明智，实际上很愚蠢： our unemployment crisis could be cured very quickly if we had the intellectual clarity and political will to act. In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursing real solutions. 假如我们有清醒理智和政治意志来采取行动，我们失业危机就能够很快全部四处理。换言之，结构性失业是个伪命题，其目标是为不去寻求真正处理方法找借口。 The fact is job openings have plunged in every major sector, while the number of workers forced into part-time employment in almost all industries has soared. 事实是各个关键行业职位空缺全部在骤降，而几乎全部行业中被迫从事兼职员作劳动者数量骤升。 Unemployment has surged in every major occupational category. Only three states. With a combined population not much larger than that of Brooklyn, have unemployment rates below 5%. 失业问题在各关键工种全部已经涌现。只有在三个总人口数加起来和布鲁克林差不多州失业率低于5%。 So the evidence contradicts the claim that we’re mainly suffering from structural unemployment. Why, then, has this claim become so popular? 所以，这一证据于我们正在经历结构性失业论调相矛盾。那么这种论调为何会如此流行呢？ Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious. 部分原因是因为这是高失业率时期全部会发生事情—这在某种程度上是因为教授和分析人士相信，宣称问题有深层次根源而不能轻易处理会使她们话听起来严厉些。 I’ve been looking at what self-proclaimed e