何凯文每日一句：2019考研英语第60句

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今天的句子：
Young people bore the brunt of the financial crisis. Everyone’s earnings have taken a hit in recent years, but young people’s pay packets were hit hardest of all. We have worked hard to avoid the high youth unemployment that characterised previous recessions, but new challenges have emerged, with one in 12 young workers currently on zero-hours contracts. Younger generations know they are paying the price of decades of failure on housing.
思考题：
The recessions in the past underwent the high jobless rates among youngsters.
第一句：
Young people bore the brunt of the financial crisis.
词汇突破：
bear the brunt of 首当其冲（brunt冲击；主要冲力）
参考译文：经济危机中年轻人首当其冲。
（年轻人承受着经济危机的主要冲击。）
第二句：
Everyone’s earnings have taken a hit （in recent years）, but young people’s pay packets were hit hardest of all.
词汇突破：
1. take a hit 受到冲击
2. pay packets 工资袋；薪水；薪酬方案
直译：近几年每个人的收入都受到冲击，但年轻人的薪酬受到的冲击最严重。
同一个词（专有名词除外）在邻近的上下文中反复出现会显得语言贫乏，文风不佳。所以我在不改变意思的前提下，微调如下：
参考译文：近几年每个人的收入都受到影响，但年轻人的薪酬缩水最严重。
第三句：
We have worked hard to avoid the high youth unemployment that characterised previous recessions, but new challenges have emerged, with one in 12 young workers currently on zero-hours contracts.
词汇突破：
1. characterize 以……这特征
2. previous 以前的
3. recession 衰退
4. emerge 出现
5. zero-hours contract 零时工合同（一种新型雇佣方式，员工只在有任务时工作，随叫随到，依工时拿报酬。通常不包括带薪病假或年假。）
主干识别：
We have worked hard to avoid the high youth unemployment…, but  new challenges have emerged…
我们努力避免青年人高失业……，但出现了新的挑战……
切分成分：
1.that characterised previous recessions定语从句，修饰high youth 2.unemployment，意思是标志上次衰退的 青年人高失业
3.with one in 12 young workers currently on zero-hours contracts伴随状语，补充new challenges的内容，即新挑战是每12位年轻工人中就有1位目前签约零时工合同
参考译文：我们努力避免以前衰退的典型问题——青年人高失业，但出现了新的挑战，每12位年轻工人中就有1位目前签约零时工合同。
第四句：
Younger generations know they are paying the price of decades of failure on housing.
词汇突破：
1.  pay the price of 付出……的代价
主干识别：Younger generations know (that)…
切分成分：they are paying the price of...on housing他们正在住房方面付出代价
decades of failure数十年的失败
参考译文：年轻一代知道，自己正在为数十年来在住房（政策)的失败，付出代价。
思考题：
The recessions in the past underwent the high jobless rates among youngsters.
从第三句里high youth unemployment that characterised previous recessions，我们可以知道以前的衰退都以高青年人失业为标志，所以题目里的这句话是正确的。