2020英语时事新闻

推荐2篇给你1. A wave of Chinese tourists is expected to hit European cities this week as Beijing lifts restrictions on group travel to nearly 30 countries. China's designation of most of Europe as an "approved destination", taking effect on Wednesday, is expected to trigger a flood of tour groups to the region. Until now, only business travellers and individuals who were able to obtain visas were able to travel there. The number of Chinese travelling overseas is expected to swell in coming years as Beijing relaxes rules on foreign visits, creating a substantial new source of business for the world's hotel, airline and travel industries. The World Tourism Organisation estimates that by 2020 the number of Chinese tourists will reach 100m. Last year, there were 20.2m.欧洲国家将迎来蜂拥中国客 随着中国政府解除对近30个国家组团游的限制，一波中国游客潮预计本周将到达欧洲各个城市。 中国将欧洲大部分地区指定为“获准旅游目的地”，并将于周三生效，预计这将引发旅游团蜂拥至这些地区。在此之前，只有商务旅客以及能获得签证的个人才可以到那些地方去旅游。 由于中国政府放松对境外游的限制，因此到海外旅游的中国游客人数将在未来几年迅速膨胀，为全球的酒店、航空和旅游业创造巨大的新业务来源。 世界旅游组织估计，到2020年，中国游客的人数将达到1亿人。去年为2020万。2. Ah, summer in Europe. It's when everyone takes advantage of their 35-hour workweeks and seven weeks of vacation and holidays, and everything slows down or shuts down. Meanwhile, Americans toil in envy. But in less time than it takes to get a tan, four powerful European companies have demanded their employees work longer hours. The trend is expected to spread as Western European companies strive to boost productivity and as employees try to keep their jobs from moving to Eastern Europe and beyond. "At some point, workers have got to choose. They can't have high pay and long holidays," says Richard Jackman, a professor at the London School of Economics. The tipping point, Jackman says, happened on May 1, when the European Union, a trade and regulatory alliance of 15 Western European counties, added 10 members, including Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. New immigration restrictions are designed to prevent a flood of cheap labor, but companies in the West are now threatening to move their production east. The math is persuasive: Wages in the Czech Republic, for example, are 40% less than in France, and employees work five more hours a week and get 11/2 fewer weeks of vacation. That's why workers at a Robert Bosch car parts factory in France voted almost unanimously last week to work an extra hour a week without pay, to stop the car components company from moving the work to the Czech Republic. The French finance minister is also pushing to relax the law, which took effect in 2000, that mandates a 35-hour workweek. The law's intent was to encourage employers to add workers, which in theory would reduce the jobless rate while maintaining productivity. The trend is even stronger in Germany, which shares borders with the Czech Republic and Poland and has rigid laws about hiring and firing. Among the converts: • 4,000 employees at two Siemens plants ended a bitter dispute in June and agreed to work 40 hours a week, instead of 35, for no extra money. The engineering giant had threatened to move production of its cellular and cordless phones from a plant in northern Germany to Hungary. • Employees at Thomas Cook agreed last week to postpone a pay increase and accept a 40-hour workweek, up from 381/2, in an effort to put the tourism company back in the black. • DaimlerChrysler struck a deal Friday that lengthens the workweek for research and development staff from 35 hours to 40 hours; employees at its Sindelfingen, Germany, plant, which makes the Mercedes C-class car, will work 39 hours. The company had threatened to move the production to South Africa. As part of the deal, top managers will take a 10% pay cut. There is little doubt the pact will influence union bargaining for thousands of Volkswagen employees later this year. "I am certain that after DaimlerChrysler, the negotiations at Volkswagen over cost cuts and job security will lead to a successful agreement," German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said in a statement from his vacation villa in Italy. The changes could not come soon enough for many corporate directors and politicians. Europe's economic recovery, which started at the end of 2003, is again trailing the USA's. For the 12 Western European countries that use the euro currency , gross domestic product grew at a 0.6% annual rate between January and March, compared with an annualized 3.9% in the USA. The results for the April-June quarter, which are not available yet, are expected to show a similar gap. The No. 1 reason Europe's growth lags the USA's might be that Europeans spend more time on the beach and less at their desks. In Western Europe, output per hour worked was 91% of U.S. levels in 2002, up sharply from 65% in 1970. But in seven of the most advanced European countries (France, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands and Belgium), workers are just as productive as in the USA, according to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, which published its 2004 employment outlook this month. "We could confirm the popular perception that Europeans work less than Americans; in fact, they work about one-third less. But we also found that average incomes in Europe were also about one-third lower, because output per hour was essentially the same," says Paul Swaim, economist with the OECD. "Obviously, the next question is: Who has it the best, on balance? Is it better to work less and live with less income?" he asks. Judging by the demonstrations and walkouts at companies such as Siemens and DaimlerChrysler, Europeans want to work to live, not live to work, as the saying goes. But with unemployment rates averaging 8% in Europe, and cheap labor in Eastern Europe, the choice gets simpler, if not easier. "The corporate sector has had enough, and it is now in a better position to start demanding things from its workforce," says Richard Prior, European Economist for HSBC in London. The recent cases "are symptomatic of structural changes that can only continue."西欧工人决心延长每周工作时间 每周工作35小时的欧洲人每当夏季享受着数周度假和节假日的放松，手中事情几乎都停顿下来。而此时辛苦劳作的美国人只能心生羡慕和嫉妒。 但此情此景在一些公司已走到尽头。四家极具影响力的欧洲公司已要求员工每周工作更长时间。这个趋势有可能继续在西欧地区蔓延，以此振兴当地劳动生产力；员工也力图保住他们的工作不被转移至东欧或是世界其他地区。伦敦商学院教授Richard Jackman认为，在此关键时刻员工们必须做出抉择。他们不可能同时具有高薪和长期节假日。 随着欧盟成员国增加，来自高失业率和廉价劳动力的东欧地区的波、匈和捷克等国的进入，使西欧企业在削价成本上有很大回旋余地。它们现威胁要将一部分生产工作转移至东欧。

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【导读】要说今年最热的时事就是防疫了，也正是这次防疫显示了我大国气概，在面对疫情时的及时正确处理措施，引得他国效仿，为此小编预测2020年四级英语考试就有可能考到新冠肺炎相关内容，下面是小编为大家整理的新冠肺炎高频词总汇，希望对大家有所帮助。

新型冠状病毒感染的肺炎：pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus / novel coronavirus-caused pneumonia

确诊病例：confirmed case

疑似病例：suspected case

重症患者：patient in critical condition

病死率：fatality rate

密切接触者：close contact

接受医学观察：be under medical observation

隔离：quarantine /ˈkwɒrəntiːn/

潜伏期：incubation /ˌɪŋkjuˈbeɪʃn/ period

人传人：human-to-human transmission

飞沫传播：droplet /ˈdrɒplət/ transmission

发热、咳嗽、呼吸困难：fever, cough and difficulty in breathing

急性呼吸道感染病状：acute /əˈkjuːt / respiratory / rəˈspɪrətri / infection symptom

输入性病例：imported case *输入性病例：指来自疫情流行区的病例，也称一代病例

二代病例：secondary infection case * 二代病例：指被一代病例感染的本土病人

隐性感染：asymptomatic /ˌeɪsɪmptəˈmætɪk/ infection *隐性感染：指感染了病毒，但无明显症状的病例

疫情防控：epidemic /ˌepɪˈdemɪk/ prevention and control

口罩：(face) mask

防护服：protective clothing /suits

护目镜：goggles

一次性手套：disposable gloves

医疗物资：medical supplies

疫苗：vaccine

国际关注的突发公共卫生事件：Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)

封城：the lockdown of a city / a city is on lockdown

应急医院：makeshift hospital

重大突发公共卫生事件一级响应：first-level public health emergency response

国家卫生健康委员会：National Health Commission (NHC)

传播方式 mode of transmission

接触传播 contact transmission

人传人person-to-person/human-to-human transmission

集中观察 concentrated observation

密切接触者 close contact

确诊病例 confirmed cases

无症状的潜伏期silent/asymptomatic incubation period

无症状携带者asymptomatic carrier

可重复使用口罩reusable mask

含酒精的消毒液 alcohol-based disinfectant

含酒精洗手液alcohol-based hand rub/sanitizer

医疗机构medical institution

中国红十字会Red Cross Society of China

一线医护人员frontline health workers

逆行者 people who brave a dangerous situation

医疗人员medical personnel/workers; health workforce; health workers

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