VOA慢速英语:America and the Struggle for Jobs

短语讲解：

1. That does not even include people who have stopped looking for work or part-time workers unable to get full-time jobs.

look for寻找
例句：He has come all the way from Leeds to look for a job. 
他从利兹远道而来寻找工作。

2. He says the generation of young Americans known as millennials -- those now graduating from high school and college -- are especially affected.

graduate from从…毕业
例句：He was graduated from a normal college.
他是一个师范学院的毕业生。

3. When young people struggle -- when whole generations struggle in their first few years in the job market -- academic research shows that not only do they start out behind, they never catch up to where they otherwise would’ve been.

start out开始〔着手〕做; 启程, 出发
例句：He started out on his journey very early in the morning.
他一清早就踏上了旅途。
catch up追上, 赶上
例句：You go on ahead; I'll catch you up in a few minutes.
你继续向前走, 过几分钟我会赶上你的。

4. I think today you see among millennials much higher job tenure -- they’re clinging to their jobs more tightly, they’ve expressed a desire for a single job, a single employer throughout their career rather than the ability to switch careers.

cling to坚持, 忠于(某观念、信条等); 紧抓, 紧附, 紧偎(某人)
例句：The child clung to his mother.
那个孩子紧紧地偎在母亲身上。

5. Then she spent five months searching for a job.

search for搜索, 搜寻
例句：After he felt better, he searched for work at the various mills.
他感到好些后, 就在各工厂找工作。

6. Nowadays so many people are out of work and have been let go and all that stuff that they can offer that same salary to somebody who does have five years experience that they used to offer to somebody like me.

out of work失业
例句：The recession have put millions out of work.
这次经济衰退造成数百万人的失业。
used to过去一向,过去时常;过去曾(而现在不再)做
例句：John used to smoke.
约翰过去抽烟。

7. I think that will help them in the long run.

in the long run从长远来看, 终究
例句：In the long run prices are bound to rise.
从长远看, 物价肯定要涨。

8. Thirty-nine-year-old Norm Elrod of Queens, New York, has been laid off from jobs four times in the past ten years.

lay off暂时解雇,裁员
例句：The factory has laid off workers because of the drop in sales.
那个工厂由于销量下降而暂时解雇了工人。

9. That’s how my website came about.

come about发生，产生；实现
例句：How did the accident come about?
这个事故是怎么发生的?

10. But Norm says he had no success applying for jobs on the Internet.

apply for申请
例句：He applied for a passport.
他申请护照。

11. You send your resume out and it goes into a void and one person will get in touch with you for every one hundred to two hundred resumes you send out.

get in touch with和…取得联系
例句：One of the students get in touch with a careers adviser.
一个学生与职业咨询服务人员取得了联系。
send out发送; 发出
例句：They sent out invitations to many people.
他们向许多人发了请帖。