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The Great Depression
经济大萧条
The Great Depression was a worldwide economic recession.
大萧条是一场全球性的经济衰退。
It began in 1929 in the United States, when the value of stocks decreased drastically.
它始于1929年的美国，当时股票价值急剧下降。
People who had invested their savings lost a lot of money, and an overall decrease in spending caused many Americans to lose their jobs.
用储蓄进行投资的人损失了很多钱，整体支出的减少导致许多美国人失去工作。
This downturn quickly began to affect the rest of the world, because the United States couldn’t afford to trade with other countries frequently.
这种低迷很快就开始影响到世界其他地区，因为美国负担不起与其他国家频繁进行贸易。
This was a particularly difficult time for American farmers, who were also dealing with harsh climate conditions like droughts and dust storms.
对于美国农民来说，这是一段特别艰难的时期，他们还要应对干旱和沙尘暴等恶劣的气候条件。
Many unemployed farmers from the prairie states began to migrate west in hopes of finding work.
许多来自草原州的失业农民开始迁移到西部，希望在那里找到工作。
Throughout the recession, the American government worked to build welfare programs to help support unemployed people.
在整个经济衰退期间，美国政府致力于建立福利计划，以帮助支持失业者。
These programs contributed to the end of the Great Depression in 1939, around the start of World War II.
这些计划促使大萧条在1939年第二次世界大战开始前夕结束。
