新闻周刊:美国申请失业救济人数已超过十大城市总人口(1)

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More American Workers Have Filed for Unemployment Than Live in the 10 Largest Cities in the U.S.

申请失业救济的美国工人数量已超过美国十大城市人口总和

By Jason Lemon

作者：杰森·莱蒙

More workers in the U.S. have now applied¹ for unemployment benefits in the past five weeks than the total number of people who reside in the country's 10 largest cities.

在过去的5周里，申请失业救济的美国工人数量超过了美国十大城市的居民总人数。

The Department of Labor² released its latest report Thursday morning on the number of new jobless claims filed last week, showing that an additional 4.4 million workers submitted new claims. That brings the five-week total from the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic to 26.4 million, or more than all the jobs created since the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009.

周四上午，劳工部发布了关于上周首次申请失业救济金人数的最新报告，报告显示，这一数字已达到440万。这使得5周来新冠疫情造成的经济影响波及到2640万人，超过了2008年和2009年大衰退之后增加的就业岗位数量。

To put that number in perspective, 26.4 million people is larger than the number of people that live in the country's 10 biggest cities combined. According to the latest government Census³ Bureau estimates from 2018 New York City (8.4 million), Los Angeles (4 million), Chicago (2.7 million), Houston (2.3 million), Phoenix⁴ (1.7 million), Philadelphia (1.6 million), San Antonio (1.5 million), San Diego (1.4 million), Dallas (1.3 million), and San Jose, California (1 million), have a combined population of about 25.9 million.

从客观的角度来看这一数字，2640万人比美国十大城市的居民总人数还要多。2018年美国人口普查局最新调查估计，纽约市人口为840万人，洛杉矶人口为400万人，芝加哥人口为270万人，休斯敦人口为230万人，菲尼克斯人口为170万人，费城人口为160万人，圣安东尼奥人口为150万人，圣迭戈人口为140万人，达拉斯人口为130万人，加州圣何塞人口为100万人，共计2590万人。

There are also now more people in the U.S. who have filed for unemployment than the population of each individual state, with the exception of California and Texas. The largest state, California, has nearly 40 million residents, according to 2019 census estimates. Texas has about 29 million people. Florida, the third largest state by population, has about 21.5 million residents, which is nearly 5 million fewer than the total number of people who have filed for unemployment nationwide during the coronavirus pandemic.

如今，美国申请事业救济的人数已超过除加州和得州外各州的人口。2019年美国人口普查估计，人口最多的加州拥有4000万居民，德州约有2900万。人口第三大的佛罗里达州有2150万居民，比疫情期间申请失业救济的总人数少了近500万。

1 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

2 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

3 census   

n.(官方的)人口调查，人口普查

参考例句：

• A census of population is taken every ten years.人口普查每10年进行一次。
• The census is taken one time every four years in our country.我国每四年一次人口普查。

4 phoenix   

n.凤凰，长生(不死)鸟；引申为重生

参考例句：

• The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
• The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。