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- UN: Somalia Famine Over, but Millions Still Need Food Aid
- 联合国：索马利亚饥荒结束，粮援需求巨大
- The United Nations has officially declared an end to the famine in Somalia, but warns that nearly a third of the war-torn country's population is still in need of food aid.
- 联合国正式宣佈索马利亚饥荒结束，但警告说索马利亚这个饱受战火蹂躪的国家将近叁分之一的人口仍然需要粮食援助。
- The U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said Friday that because of a good harvest and humanitarian aid, parts of southern Somalia have improved from famine conditions to a less-severe "emergency."
- 联合国粮农组织星期五表示，由於粮食收成不错再加上人道主义援助，索马利亚南部部份地区的饥荒状况已经有所改善，从饥荒状态改善到严重程度有所下降的 “紧急状态”。
- But FAO Director-General Jose Graziano warned those gains were fragile and could be reversed without continued support.
- 但联合国粮农组织总干事格拉齐亚诺警告说，取得的进展仍很脆弱，在得不到继续帮助的情况下可能会发生逆转。
- The Horn of Africa is emerging from its worst drought in 60 years.
- 非洲之角正在逐步摆脱 60 年来最严重的乾旱。
- The drought killed tens of thousands of people, and forced hundreds of thousands of Somalis to flee to refugee camps in Kenya, Ethiopia, and the Somali capital of Mogadishu in search of food and water.
- 旱灾导致数以万计的人丧生，并迫使数以百万计的索马利亚人逃到肯亚、衣索比亚和首都摩加迪沙的难民营中寻找食物和水。
- At the height of the crisis, three-quarters of a million people were at risk of dying.
- 在危机最严重期间，75 万人面临死亡的威胁。
- The FAO said Friday that more than 2.3 million Somalis still need humanitarian assistance.
- 粮农组织星期五表示，230 多万索马利亚人仍然需要人道主义援助。
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- US Labor Market Surges, Jobless Rate Falls
- 美国一月就业大增，失业率下跌
- The U.S. says its labor market surged last month, with nearly a quarter million workers added to company payrolls, and that its unemployment rate fell ((two tenths of a percentage point)) to 8.3 percent, the lowest in almost three years.
- 美国政府报告说，上个月美国的就业数量激增，接近 25 万人；上个月的失业率也因此下跌至 8.3 %， 為近 3 年以来的最低水準。
- In its closely watched monthly report, the government said Friday that 243,000 jobs were added to the economy, a month after the world's largest economy recorded 200,000 new jobs.
- 美国劳工部週五公佈了 1 月份的就业报告；报告显示，一月份新增加工作 24.3 万个；去年 12 月的数字是 20 万。
- The January figure -- the biggest addition in nine months -- substantially exceeded the early estimates of economists.
- 一月份的数字為九个月来最高的，大大地超过了经济学家先前的预期。
- Analysts said the report signaled that the sluggish U.S. economic recovery might be advancing at a faster pace than first thought.
- 分析人士说，报告预示美国缓慢的经济復苏的步伐可能要比先前预想的要快。
- The jobs report and the jobless rate have perhaps become the two most important barometers of the sluggishly advancing American economy.
- 就业报告和失业率也许已经成為衡量目前正在缓慢前进的美国经济的两个最重要的晴雨錶。
- Central bank chief Ben Bernanke said this week that the recovery from the nation's 2007 to 2009 recession, its worst economic downturn in seven decades, has been been "frustratingly slow" and is likely to advance by no more than 2.7 percent this year.
- 美联储主席伯南克这个星期说，美国从 2007 年到 2009 年的经济衰退中復苏的步伐“慢得令人沮丧”，这次衰退是美国 70 年来最严重的经济衰退，并且表示今年的增长率很可能低於 2.7 %。
- But the January jobs report -- and the unexpected drop in the jobless rate from December's 8.5 percent figure -- could boost the re-election prospects for U.S. President Barack Obama, a Democrat seeking a second four-year term in the national election next November.
- 但是，一月份的就业报告以及失业率出人意料的下降也可能增加了总统欧巴马获得连任的机会；身為民主党人的欧巴马在今年 11 月的大选中寻求第二个四年任期。
- The two leading contenders seeking the Republican nomination to oppose him -- one-time venture capitalist Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich -- have regularly unleashed verbal assaults on the president's handling of the economy, calling for less government regulation of American corporations as a way to boost the country's economic fortunes.
- 争夺共和党总统候选人提名的两位主要竞争者，风险投资家罗姆尼和前眾议院议长金里奇经常对总统的经济政策进行口头上的抨击，并要求减少政府对企业的监管，刺激美国经济增长。
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