CNN News: 美國(guó)一季度GDP降4.8%

Picture a (inaudible) in terms of how corona virus is impacting America's economy and that's where we start today's edition of CNN 10. I'm Carl Azuz. Since the summer of 2009 when the Great Recession came to an end, the United States Gross Domestic Product had grown in every quarter, every three months period of the financial calendar.

想象一下冠狀病毒是如何影響美國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)的。這就是我們今天CNN 10頭條新聞。我是卡爾·阿祖茲。自2009年夏季大衰退結(jié)束以來(lái)，美國(guó)的國(guó)內(nèi)生產(chǎn)總值在每個(gè)季度，每三個(gè)月的財(cái)政日歷期間都有所增長(zhǎng)。

It was America's longest economic expansion in history but now according to many economists, it's over. The U.S. Commerce Department said Wednesday that Gross Domestic Product fell by 4.8 percent in the first quarter of this year. That's its worst drop since the country was in the midst of the Great Recession in 2008 and it's because of all the closures, shutdowns and especially the drop in consumer spending brought on by the corona virus.

這是美國(guó)歷史上持續(xù)時(shí)間最長(zhǎng)的經(jīng)濟(jì)擴(kuò)張，但現(xiàn)在許多經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家認(rèn)為，它已經(jīng)結(jié)束。美國(guó)商務(wù)部星期三說(shuō)，今年第一季度的國(guó)內(nèi)生產(chǎn)總值下降了4.8%。這是自2008年美國(guó)陷入大衰退以來(lái)最嚴(yán)重的一次下降，這是由于所有的關(guān)閉、停工，尤其是由冠狀病毒導(dǎo)致的消費(fèi)者支出下降所致。

Consumer spending is the biggest factor in America's GDP. Recession is generally defined as when GDP shrinks for two quarters in a row and economists increasingly believe that one started last month. There's more data on the way.

消費(fèi)者支出是美國(guó)GDP中最大的因素。經(jīng)濟(jì)衰退通常被定義為GDP連續(xù)兩個(gè)季度萎縮，經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家越來(lái)越相信上個(gè)月就開(kāi)始了。還有更多的數(shù)據(jù)還未出來(lái)。

The U.S. government's monthly jobs report is set to come out tomorrow. It will give estimates on the number of jobs lost and the unemployment rate, the percentage of American workers who don't have a job, but this is a unique situation. It was brought on by sudden shocks of businesses closing and people staying home. So it's hard to say how quickly the economy will recover after corona virus fears have passed or what it will look like when it does.

美國(guó)政府的月度就業(yè)報(bào)告將于明天公布。報(bào)告中包含出失業(yè)人數(shù)和失業(yè)率，也就是沒(méi)有工作的美國(guó)工人的百分比，但這是一種獨(dú)特的情況。這是由企業(yè)倒閉和人們呆在家里的突然沖擊引起。因此，很難說(shuō)在人們對(duì)冠狀病毒的恐懼過(guò)去之后，經(jīng)濟(jì)會(huì)以多快的速度復(fù)蘇，也不知道復(fù)蘇后的經(jīng)濟(jì)會(huì)是什么樣子。