美国有线新闻 CNN 3月美国工业生产和制造业均出现下降 为1946年来最大月度跌幅

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Industrial production and manufacturing, two important parts of the American economy factor into our first report today on CNN 10. I'm Carl Azuz, happy to have you watching. According to the U.S. Federal Reserve, the country's central bank, 5.4% is how much America's industrial production dropped in March as factories stopped operating.

CNN10分钟新闻主持人卡尔·阿祖兹：工业生产和制造业是美国经济的两大重要组成部分，也是今天CNN10分钟新闻的首个话题。我是卡尔·阿祖兹，很高兴大家收听节目。根据美国中央银行美联储的数据，由于工厂停工，3月份美国工业生产下降了5.4%。

Manufacturing fell by 6.3 percent as cut backs were made in areas like car production, auto¹ parts manufacturing and furniture making. The last time these numbers decreased by this much in a month, the year was 1946. World War II had just ended.

制造业下降了6.3%，原因是汽车生产、汽车零部件制造和家具制造等领域削减成本。上一次这些数据在一个月内下降如此之多还要追溯至1946年。当时第二次世界大战刚刚结束。

Industries were shutting down their production of war effort materials and transitioning into making consumer products again. 74 years later, it's the coronavirus pandemic that's closed factories. No one knows yet how long it will take to get industry running the way it was before COVID-19 entered America.

那时工业正停止生产战争物资，重新转向生产消费产品。74年后，冠状病毒疫情导致工厂关闭。没有人知道让工业回到新冠肺炎袭击美国之前的运转水平需要多长时间。

According to Johns Hopkins University, more than two million coronavirus cases have been confirmed worldwide. Over 610,000 of them are in the United States. And while there's still a lot that doctors don't know about the disease, a new study suggests that people might be most likely to infect others before the carriers even show symptoms themselves.

据约翰霍普金斯大学的数据，全球冠状病毒确诊病例已超过200万例。其中超过61万例在美国。虽然医生对这种疾病还有很多不了解的地方，但一项新研究表明，病毒携带者在出现症状之前就极有可能会感染其他人。

This was published Wednesday in the journal "Nature Medicine". But the study relied on patients memories of when they first started showing symptoms so it might not be entirely² accurate. Still, a growing amount of research indicates that people who feel healthy are helping³ spread coronavirus.

这项研究于周三发表在《自然·医学》期刊上。但该研究依赖于患者最开始出现症状时的记忆，因此可能并非完全准确。不过，越来越多的研究表明，自我感觉健康的人正在帮助病毒传播。

So the U.S. government's recommending that healthy people keep their faces covered whenever they leave the house.

因此，美国政府建议健康人群出门时要将脸部遮住。

1 auto   

n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车

参考例句：

• Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
• The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。

2 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。

3 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。