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今日主題：Lose Your Job? Good for the Rest of Us
失去工作反而更長壽？

洪欣老師推薦：托福聽力最好的課外教材：60-Second Science
康康精選托福會考的主題，堅持每天精聽一定會進步的哦!!

建議方法：
1. 先聽兩三遍 (不看文稿)
2. 再一句一句聽寫 (每句都要聽寫數遍，直到寫出85%以上的字)
3. 最後check文稿，看哪聽不出來，單字沒背過，還是發音不熟。
4. 堅持天天聽，就能每天進步哦。

MP3音檔 (按右鍵可下載聽)：喜歡的同學，幫忙推或按讚哦~~
http://online1.tingclass.net/voaspe/…/20140828sa_science.mp3

只有音檔怎夠，聽不懂地方，不用怕，康康幫你準備好中英文稿了：

中英文稿：
Losing your job is bad—for you. But it could be good for the rest of us. Because a study shows that a recession lowers mortality in the population overall—even as the out-of-work individual's risk of death rises. That paradoxical finding appears in the American Journal of Epidemiology. [José A. Tapia Granados et al.: Individual Joblessness, Contextual Unemployment, and Mortality Risk]
失去工作對你來說是件壞事。但是它可能有利於我們的其他方面。因為一項研究表明，經濟衰退可以降低總人口的死亡率。這個矛盾的研究發現被發表在《美國流行病學》雜誌上。

It's easy to imagine that the stress of getting canned could pave the way to an untimely demise. But can joblessness really improve societal survival? To find out, researchers examined data from the US Department of Labor and a 20-year survey of so-called 「income dynamics.」 And they found that job loss is linked to a 73 percent rise in the probability of death for the newly unemployed—the equivalent of adding 10 years to his or her age.
如果說失業的壓力會加速死亡的話，我們會很容易理解。但是說失業可以提高社會生存力，這會是真的嗎?為了找到答案，研究人員對來自美國勞工部的一個被稱為 「收入動態」的長達20年的調查數據做了研究檢查，他們發現對於新的失業者來說，失去工作和73%的死亡率相關，也就是說失業的人會多活差不多10年。

At the same time, parsing the data state by state, the researchers found that people in general live longer during an economic downturn—an extra year for each percentage-point rise in unemployment.
與此同時，研究人員分析該國的數據發現，一般人們在經濟低迷時期活得更長久，失業率增長1%，人們就會多活一年。

One possible explanation: when the economy is strong, people commute more and sleep less—raising the risk of car crashes and job-related injuries. Such accidents are less likely when folks are sitting on their couches polishing up their resumes.
—Karen Hopkin
一個相對合理的解釋就是：當經濟發展的好時，人們更多的是來回的上下班和很少的睡眠時間——這就加大了發生車禍的和與工作相關傷害的風險。這些事不太可能發生在人們坐在沙發上完善他們的簡歷的時候。——凱倫‧霍普金