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听力文本
The International Labor Organization (ILO) predicts global unemployment will worsen over the next two years.
Emerging and developing countries will be hurt the most. This is according to an annual study released by the ILO called "World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2016."
The ILO found that nearly 200 million people were unemployed at the end of last year. This was nearly 30 million more than in 2007, before the world financial crisis.
The global financial crisis started in the United States with bank failures, defaults on home mortgages, and credit card payments. Many layoffs followed. It spread globally.
"The crisis affected almost every part of the world," according to Yale Global Online, a publication of Yale University.
The ILO predicts that more than 2 million more people will be out of work by the end of this year. That will mean 200.5 million unemployed worldwide by the end of 2016.
Guy Ryder is ILO Director-General at their headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. He says the slow growth of the world economy is not creating enough jobs to reverse the increase in high unemployment in the world.
Brazil, China and the oil-producing countries will be particularly hard-hit by the weakened job market, according to Ryder.
The report says job quality remains a major challenge. About 1.5 billion people are working in vulnerable jobs, according to the report.
This includes people who are self-employed or who work in the informal sector. This type of work usually has low productivity, low pay and no social protection. The ILO found that countries in southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa have the highest levels of vulnerable employment, peaking at 74 percent and 70 percent, respectively.
The report says governments must make employment policies stronger and put in place protection for workers. They say more attention needs to be paid to helping people find decent work.
This includes young people, women, the long-term unemployed, and the disabled.
I'm Mary Gotschall.
词汇解释
1.default vi. 拖欠；不履行；不到场 n. 违约；缺席；缺乏；系统默认值 vt. 不履行；不参加（比赛等）；对…处以缺席裁判
The credit card business is down, and more borrowers are defaulting on loans.
信用卡生意正在走下坡路，更多的借贷人不履行还贷责任。
2.mortgage vt. 抵押 n. 抵押，房屋抵押贷款
They had to mortgage their home to pay the bills.
他们不得不抵押他们的房子来还账。
3.layoff n. 活动停止期间；临时解雇；操作停止；失业期
It will close more than 200 stores nationwide resulting in the layoffs of an estimated 2,000 employees.
在全国范围内将关闭二百多家商店，造成约两千人失业。
内容解析
1.The ILO predicts that more than 2 million more people will be out of work by the end of this year.
out of work 失业；(机器等)出故障
30 families are suffering 'cause they're out of work.
有30户人家因为失业而正在经受煎熬。
He was out of work owing to a physical injury.
他因为受伤而失业了。
2.The report says governments must make employment policies stronger and put in place protection for workers.
put in place 到位；落实到位；正在实施
They put in place the tools of my new business.
他们把我干这一新行当所需要的用具安放得井井有条.
They're offended by the elaborate security measures the police have put in place.
他们被警方部署的繁复安全措施惹怒了。
参考译文
国际劳工组织预测未来两年全球就业形势将恶化。
根据国际劳工组织发布的名为《全世界就业与社会展望—2016趋势》的年度研究，新兴市场和发展中国家受到的影响最大。
劳工组织发现去年年底有近2亿失业人口，世界金融危机爆发前，2007年的数据为近3000万。
全球金融危机始于美国的银行倒闭、住房抵押贷款和信用卡违约，然后很多人被解雇，然后蔓延到世界各地。
耶鲁大学的出版物耶鲁全球在线称，“这场危机影响了几乎世界各个地方。”
劳工组织预测到今年年底失业者人数将增加200万，这意味着到2016年年底全世界将有2.005亿失业人口。
盖伊·莱德是国际劳工组织驻瑞士日内瓦总部的总干事，他说世界经济的缓慢发展未能创造足够多的就业机会来扭转全球失业人数的增加。
莱德说，巴西、中国和产油国家受就业市场疲软的影响最大。
这份报告称就业质量仍是一大挑战，称大约15亿人的就业不稳定。
其中包括自雇人士和就职于非正式部门者，这类工作通常生产力较低，工资较低，没有社会保护。劳工组织发现南亚和撒哈拉南部非洲地区的就业不稳定水平最高，峰值分别达到74%和70%。
这份报告称政府必须强化就业政策，为工人提供保护措施，还需要努力帮助工人找到更体面的工作。
其中包括青年、妇女、长期失业者和残疾人。
我是玛丽·高斯肖。
