CRI听力:The Revised Law of Personal Income Tax Has Taken Effect

短语讲解：

1. Zhang Xiruo is an employee working for a financial company based in Beijing. Her monthly salary is five thousand yuan.

work for受雇于
例句：How long have you been working for this firm?
你为这家公司效力多久了?

2. But after the new personal income tax law takes effect, starting from September 1st, she only needs to turn in 10.5 yuan per month.

take effect生效, 奏效
例句：The prescribed medicine failed to take effect.
医生开的药没有见效。
turn in上交, 呈交
Our papers have to be turned in one week before the examination.
我们的论文必须在考试前一周交上去。

3. I think the money saved from the tax reduction can be put towards my living expenses, like going to the supermarket.

save from从…中救出, 使免受
例句：It will save the student from wasting his time in exercises.
这可使学生不至于把时间浪费在做练习上。

4. The major groups of people who will benefit from the new law are middle and low income earners.

benefit from通过…获益
例句：He thought he would benefit from going to school.
他认为上学对他有好处。

5. So, compared to the old tax law, which group will now be paying more?

compare to与…相比
例句：The writer was compared to Shakespeare.
把这个作家与莎士比亚进行了比较。

6. Some experts have pointed out that just because fewer people are now paying personal income tax, this doesn't necessarily mean that the national tax income will decrease.

point out指出
例句：When the mistake was pointed out to him, he hastened to correct it.
当有人向他指出错误时, 他赶紧纠正。

7. However, financial commentator Ye Tan believes that a fixed threshold will hardly result in low and middle income wage earners being better-off.

result in导致,结果是
例句：The quarrel resulted in his mother leaving the house.
争吵导致了他母亲离家出走。

8. I think the threshold should be changed from time to time in connection with the Consumer Price Index.

in connection with与…有关,连同
例句：Tell me all you know in connection with that matter
把你知道的关于那件事的所有情况都告诉我。