英译汉 The price of the ruble is sinking

英译汉9. Germany Moonlighter1 Economy Tough times mean working second jobs He begins his day early, in slacks and a nice shirt. He ends his day late, in overalls and work boots. At 5 a.m., Andreas Koschorrek gets ready for his morning job as a client manager2 for a cleaning service. After a four-hour shift, he makes a one-hour drive to nearby Potsdam, where he pulls on overalls and washes windows. The pay from both jobs totals a little over 1,200 euros (almost $1,500) a month, just enough to pay his rent and child support for his two daughters. "It's hectic," the trained maintenance worker says of the two-job life he began a few months ago. "Every month, the money has to go to something," he says, adding that people have to work extremely hard "just to afford vacation". Moonlighting has long been a part of economic reality in the United States. But the financial doldrums in Europe's largest economy3 are beginning to force Germans like Mr. Koschorrek into working two or even three jobs to stay afloat and afford some of the finer things in life. "Certainly what has happened elsewhere hasn't gone unnoticed in Germany," says Martin Werding, at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich. "There have been massive changes in standard work life. Flexible contracts, people changing professions--all this has arrived in Germany as well. In that sense working two jobs is a part of the picture." Once Europe's economic powerhouse, Germany's form of economic socialism is being strained by the very aspects that made it attractive. Entire careers spent at one company, generous pension and healthcare plans, and ironclad job protection4 have proved too costly and have chased away investment. To rein in the welfare system and make the economy more flexible, the government—after a long and bitter fight with unions and the political opposition—passed tough economic reforms. Among other things, the changes loosen hiring and firing laws. "When (this system) worked really well and people had high wages, it was fine,"5 says Melanie Arntz, at the Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim. "But now people realize in general that there seems to be something that has to be changed, and they are in favor of the reforms and are adjusting to them by having another job." Skilled laborers like Koschorrek are facing high unemployment rates, and even white-collar professionals are no longer guaranteed full-time employment and are looking for ways to shore up their income.6 Bernard Bosil has branched out from his profession of tax adviser, working a total of three jobs now to maintain his middle-class lifestyle. "Every job is so unstable,7 you don't know if you're going to be working in the same place three years from now," says Mr. Bosil, a native of the Rhineland city of Krefeld. So he started his own window-cleaning company with a client list initially made up of friends and colleagues, and cut back his hours at the tax office. He now spends 20 hours a week in the office, devotes the rest of the week to the window-cleaning business—and on the weekends tops up steins8 at a beer garden, the same place he worked as a student. Bosil sees advantages to becoming more economically nimble. "It's a nice change," he says. "To just sit in the office all day is too boring, I need people around me." To help such moonlighters along—and try to bring down unemployment rates that hover around 10 percent—Germany changed labor laws. Under the adjustment, people working part-time jobs can earn up to 400 euros ($500) without having to pay taxes or social costs on the wage. Employers pay a set rate of 25 percent of the worker's wage to cover tax and some benefits. In the six months after the law went into effect, more than a million professionals, students, housewives, and craftsmen turned to working the so-called "minijobs", according to the federal agency set up to manage the system. "It's clear that incentives have changed in favor of having a small job, in addition to a regular job," said Harmen Lehment, of the Kiel Institute of World Economics. "I expect more and more people will make this move and have a minijob." For white-collar professionals like Bosil, his minijob as a waiter helps him pay the rent on his new apartment and go on weekend trips. Blue-collar workers, like Koschorrek, juggle minijobs with work in their field to stay above water. "I never thought working two jobs would become so common," says Koschorrek, whose work is categorized as a craft in Germany.

英译汉10. The two attackers escaped in a car and there has been no claim for responsibility.

英译汉 The staple food of Zimbabwe is maize

英译汉6. Tiny amounts of some hormones can modify moods and actions, our inclination to eat or drink, our aggressiveness or submissiveness, and our reproductive and parental behavior.

英译汉3. None are less eager to learn than they who know nothing.

英译汉2. Exactly why obesity and early development should be linked is not well understood.

汉译英9. 为了实现这个目标，国家决定重点发展农村地区与预防医学。

汉译英 按照故障保险设计的飞机安全的结构部件，只要其疲劳断裂不至于频繁发生以危及飞机安全，缩短其使用寿命

汉译英10. 我们必须正确处理高新技术产业与传统产业、资本技术密集型产业与劳动密集型产业的关系。

汉译英 环境保护 雾霾天气范围扩大，环境污染矛盾突出，是大自然向粗放发展方式亮起的红灯

汉译英 中国篮球运动员的投篮方式，尤其是跳起的单、双手投篮，具有快速、突然、制高的特点

汉译英8. 中国不会在国家主权、领土完整问题上作任何妥协，也不会谋求世界霸权。

汉译英 粮食生产 中国政府通过增加国内粮食生产，保持粮食供需平衡的决心是坚定的

汉译英6. 国民健康水平进一步提高，人均预期寿命达到75岁。

汉译英 我们积极推进同各大国关系，加强与周边邻国的互利合作关系，顺利建成中国-东盟自贸区

汉译英 工布地区的民间传统体育响箭比赛，科学地把休闲娱乐、文化艺术、体育健身高度地结合在一起

汉译英10. “学习使人年轻，不学习等于死亡。”这句话适用于任何社会、任何时代。

汉译英 推动经济结构性改革，保持经济平稳发展 当前，中国经济发展进入新常态1

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