Retail employment domestic employment (maids housekeeping yard work landscaping) never provided a middle class lifestyle unless one worked multiple full time jobs say and both parents did so.

对于从事零售业工作或服务业工作（如女佣、家政、庭院清理、景观美化等）的家庭来说，除非一人同时承担多份全职工作，甚至夫妻双方均兼任多份工作，才有可能过上中产阶级的生活方式。

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The loggers say their jobs are faced with extinction because of declining timber sales.

樵夫们说他们的工作因不断下降的木材销售而面临消亡。

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Most teachers, I'm glad to say, take their jobs very seriously.

我很高兴地说，多数老师工作都很认真。

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But media reports say an estimated twenty million migrant workers returned home last year after losing their jobs.

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But others say that Wal-Mart brings jobs and helps people save money.

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They say ending the program will cost the area seven thousand jobs.

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American soldiers stationed in rural areas with few government jobs say the unemployment rate there approaches 80%.

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Nearly half of the respondents with jobs say they'd gone to work when they were sick because they worried about the financial consequences of missing work.

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Xeni, why does Steve Jobs say get rid of DRM?

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