As a result, they have lost the parachute they once had in times of financial setback—a back-up earner (usually Mom) who could go into the workforce if the primary earner got laid off or fell sick.
因此，它们已经失去了在经济萧条时期曾经持有的“保护伞”——一个后备挣钱者（通常是母亲），她可以在主要挣钱者失业或者病倒的时候出去工作。
Among the millions with hourly earnings at or below the minimum wage level, the overwhelming majority are from multiple-earner, relatively affluent families.
在每小时工资处于或低于最低工资水平的数百万人中，绝大多数来自有多收入者、相对富裕的家庭。
Researchers Darby Saxbe and Rena Graesch of the University of California and colleagues tracked 30 dual-earner couples around their homes for three days, using video cameras, interviews and surveys.
加利福尼亚大学研究员黛比萨克斯比、热那格莱斯奇和同事一起用三天时间通过摄像机、采访以及问卷追踪调查了30对双收入家庭。
Keynes assumes that a person's income depends on the consumption of the product being sold, and by extension believes that by not consuming, one is denying a wage earner a wage.
凯恩斯认定一个人的收入受制于对正在出售的产品的消费。进一步，凯恩斯还相信，一个人不消费，就是拒绝向工资劳动者给付工资。
I'm speculating, but it seems reasonable to me that what's causing this decline, or much of it, is the rise of the two-earner household.
我猜测，双职工家庭的日益增多导致了迁移率下降或者是大幅下降，但是对于我来说，这似乎是合乎情理的。
For a fourth consecutive year, the Spanish club was the biggest revenue earner in world football.
连续四年，这个西班牙俱乐部一直是世界足坛上收入最高的俱乐部。
And second, wage gains that accrue to top engineers and financiers in Silicon Valley and New York City mean very little to the median income earner in Cleveland or Phoenix.
第二，给硅谷和纽约城的高级工程师和金融家增加工资意味着克里·弗兰或者菲尼克斯的总收入阶级的工资就不会增加太多。
The result being that you’re in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people.
但这种政策的结果是，一个赚取工薪的人将要照料四个退休的老人。
The price of bauxite, Jamaica's other big earner, has more than halved since its peak last July.
而牙买加另一大利润来源——铝土矿的价格自从去年七月达到顶峰后便下降了逾一半。
"More couples are sharing family tasks than ever before, and the movement toward sharing has been especially significant for full-time dual-earner couples," the report says.
报告指出：“与以前相比，如今有更多的夫妇共同分担家务，而且这一趋势在双职工家庭中尤为明显。”
In recent years, tourism has grown very quickly, overtaking sugar cane and coffee as the country's top earner.
近年来，当地的旅游业迅猛发展，一跃成为该国的首要收入来源，超过了甘蔗和咖啡。
These two gigs add up to the biggest annual sales-tax earner for the city, Christmas included.
这两大节日加起来为该市带来年度最大的销售税收益，超过圣诞节。
When my son was born, we became a single-earner household and made the requisite 'sacrifices' to do it.
当我儿子出生的时候，我们家里只有一个人挣钱，因此做出了一些必须的“牺牲”。
Tourism has been ear-marked as the primary foreign exchange earner, with more visitors coming to Zanzibar each year.
随着每年越来越多的游客来到这里，旅游业已经被认定为第一重要的争取外汇的行业。
Household chores often get in the way when dual-earner couples want to unwind after a stress-filled day on the job.
当双职工夫妻想在压力满满的一个工作日后放松一下时，家务琐事无疑是个麻烦。
In all but one of 30 OECD countries, a married one-earner couple with two children takes home more money than a single person with no children on the same average annual salary.
在经合组织的30个成员国中，除了一个国家之外，都会出现这种现象：一对有两个孩子的夫妇，只有一个人上班拿工资，他们的收入却比同等平均年薪、没有孩子的单身人挣得多。
For the million Spanish families who saw a wage-earner lose their job in 2008, Christmas was a lot grimmer.
2008年，西班牙数以百万计的家庭亲眼目睹了靠工资度日的人们下岗待业，圣诞节更是雪上加霜。
I'm simply a wage-earner, and I find it difficult enough to raise one child, so I won't consider the second.
我只是个工薪阶层，而且我发现养一个孩子挺难的，所以我不会考虑第二个的。
Interestingly, Chris is the top earner in the family. But Gwyneth is goopier.
有趣的是，克里斯是赚得多的那个，但格温妮丝长得更好看。
Many hope the European Union, which buys up to 90% of Syria's oil, a big earner for the government, will follow America in imposing energy sanctions.
很多人希望购买了叙国90%以上石油产品的大买家欧盟能够步美国的后尘对其进行能源制裁。
The wage earner is remunerated according to the price the consumer is prepared to pay for his contribution to the qualities of the product.
挣薪酬的人，其酬劳是消费者按照他所提供的产品按质论价的。
To put this in perspective, he could spend in 13 minutes what a minimum-wage earner brings home after an entire year of the daily grind.
换个角度说，他13分钟花的钱相当于最低收入者日复一日的辛勤工作的全年所得。
The data underline the challenges faced by Hollywood from the loss of what used to be a steady earner.
这意味着，好莱坞昔日稳赚不赔的买卖正面临严峻的挑战。
Applications for places at secondary schools are now made and adjudicated online, cutting off a nice little earner for officials at the better schools.
中学入学都是网上申请、网上评审，切断了好学校官员相当可观的一笔油水。
So how does Rupert Murdoch, a man who is fiercely certain of the value of content, restore it to what he sees as its rightful place as a money-earner in its own right?
但是默多克，素来坚信内容是价值所在，要它恢复到作为一个赚钱机器的应有的位置不成？
And the number of couples that included a high earner and a low earner in the relationship decreased by 2.8 per cent from 28.6 to 25.8 per cent in the same time span.
同时，夫妻双方一个高收入者和一个低收入者也从28.6%下降到25.8%，下降了2.8个百分点。
The estate of Mary and Louis Myers, Ohio arts patrons, provided the first 20 lots of the evening, but the chief earner was Andy Warhol.
俄亥俄收藏家玛丽·路易斯·迈尔斯(Louis Myers)夫妇的20件藏品是首先开拍的，不过主要的赢家当属安迪·沃霍尔的作品。
In other words, for the average wage earner to make a million dollars, he or she would have to work 40 hours a week for approximately 21 years.
换句话说，一般人要是想赚100万美元，他或她就得每周工作40个小时，这样连续干大约21年。
In other words, for the average wage earner to make a million dollars, he or she would have to work 40 hours a week for approximately 21 years.
换句话说，一般人要是想赚100万美元，他或她就得每周工作40个小时，这样连续干大约21年。
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