(单词翻译:单击)
听力文本
From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report.
The South African Department of Labor reported last month that the nation has too few jobs for unskilled labourers. The department also said there are not enough workers for highly skilled positions.
The sharp differences between jobs and skills were apparent recently when officials advertised a job opening in the government. The position was that of auditor-general or chief financial supervisor.
With a 26 percent unemployment rate nationwide, there was no shortage of interest in the job. 90 people asked to be considered. But officials said many of them lack the necessary skills or education. The auditor-general is responsible for supervising and independently examining South Africa's finances.
The advertisement said, the position required the person to be a trained accountant. It said candidates had to have at least a Master's degree and years of experience. Yet among the job hopefuls were laborers, a security guard, a secretary and some whose highest education level was high school.
The Labor Department report blamed the nation's poor education system. But for unskilled workers, the story is very different.
Restaurant industry official TJ Van der Walt says the business he works with get a huge number of applications for every job.
"We deal in an industry where there's no real skill needed, so we get literally thousands of applicants for the positions that we get."
Mr Van der Walt notes that good workers are hard to find. He says he spends a lot of time studying the job qualifications of people who don't have the required skills. In his words, people just want jobs.
Sejamothopo Motau is a member of South Africa's Parliament. He says the job market is difficult, and both skilled and unskilled workers are feeling the pain. He says education has been a major problem in South Africa's development. He notes that many Blacks received a poor education under white-minority rule. Apartheid officially ended in 1994.
He says many people are university graduates, still they can't get jobs where there is a need for skilled workers. This is because the education these graduates have is not enough to place them in jobs with high skill requirements.
"So what it tells us is -- and I think everybody in this country now accepts that -- is that there's a mismatch between our education system and the products of that system, and the needs, the economic needs, of the country."
Mr Motau's party estimates that 4 million young South Africans are unemployed.
And that's the Economics Report from VOA Learning English. I'm Mario Ritter.
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词汇学习
1.highly adv. 高度地;非常
Heroin is highly addictive.
海洛因很容易使人上瘾 。
2.advertise vt. 做广告,做宣传
It is unwise of them to advertise their willingness to make concessions at the negotiations.
他们宣扬愿意在谈判中让步,这是不明智的 。
3.blame vt. 指责,责怪
Don't blame on him, after all, he is a green hand.
不要责备他,他毕竟是个新手 。
4.literally adv.确实地
Putting on an opera is a tremendous enterprise involving literally hundreds of people...
上演一台歌剧是一项浩大的工程,说要涉及数以百计的人真是一点都不夸张 。
5.mismatch n. 错配,失谐
Are you discarding recent changes that led to the mismatch?
还是放弃导致不匹配产生的最新改变?
6.note vt. 指出
The report notes that export and import volumes picked up in leading economies...
报告特别指出经济大国的进出口量攀升 。
7.officially adv. 官方地;正式地;公务上
The library will be officially opened by the local MP.
图书馆将由当地下院议员正式揭幕 。
内容解析
1.The auditor-general is responsible for supervising and independently examining South Africa's finances.
be responsible for为…负责,形成…的原因
Who will be responsible for the expedition's supplies?
谁将负责探险队的物资供应?
2.Yet among the job hopefuls were laborers, a security guard, a secretary and some whose highest education level was high school.
yet用作连词时,与but一样也主要用于转折,意为“但是”“而”:
I have failed, yet I shall try again. 我失败了,但我还要尝试
。The judge was stern, yet completely fair. 法官很严峻,却完全公正
。They are the same, yet not the same. 它们又一样,又不一样
。It is strange, yet it is true. 那真是怪事,然而却是事实
。I’ve been away only for three years, yet I can hardly recognize my hometown. 我仅在外三年,可我几乎认不出我自己的故乡了
。He said he was our friend, yet he wouldn’t help us. 他说他是我们的朋友,但却不肯帮助我们
。有时用在句首
。如:Yet the house was cheerful. 但屋子里显得很欢快
。Yet its population has doubled. 但它的人口翻了一番
。参考译文
美国之音慢速学英语节目,这里是经济报道 。
上月,南非劳工部报告称,国家提供给非熟练劳动者的工作岗位太少
。该部门还表示,高技能岗位也没有足够的工人 。
最近,官员们广告宣传了政府部门一个职位空缺之后,岗位和技能之间的差异凸显出来
。该职位是审计长或财政监察官 。
由于全国失业率高达26%,对该职位感兴趣的不乏其人
。90人申请面试 。但是官员们表示,其中许多人缺乏必要的技能或学历 。审计长负责监督和独立审查南非的财政状况 。
招聘广告称,该职位需要一名训练有素的会计师来担任
。应聘者必须持有硕士文凭和多年工作经验 。然而,其中有希望成功的人却是普通工人,一名保安,一名秘书和最高学历只有高中的人 。
该劳工部报告谴责了国家的教育体系
。但是对非熟练劳动者来说,状况就完全不同 。
餐馆行业官员TJ Van der Walt表示,他从事的行业每个职位都有大量应聘者
。
“我们涉及的行业不需要什么技能,所以,我们的职位有数千名应聘者
。”
Van der Walt指出,好的工人很难找到
。他说,他花费了很多时间来研究没有必须技能的人们的工作资历 。用他的话说,人们只是想要一份工作 。
Sejamothopo Motau是南非议会一名议员
。他表示,就业市场非常艰难,有技能的劳动者和非熟练劳动者都深受其苦 。他表示,教育是限制南非发展的一个重要原因 。他指出,在少数白人的统治下,黑人接受不到良好的教育 。种族隔离于1994年正式结束 。
他说,许多人是大学毕业生,在需要熟练工人的领域却仍然找不到工作
。这是因为这些大学毕业生接受的教育不足以让他们担任高技能需求的岗位 。
“所以,这告诉我们,我认为这个国家的每个人都接受这一点,教育体系和教育体系的产物与经济需求和国家需求之间不匹配
。”
Motau的党派估计,南非共有400万年轻人失业
。
以上就是今天的美国之音慢速学英语经济报道
。我是Mario Ritter 。