如果你从来没有参加过工作，那么你就无权领取救济金。
You are not entitled to get unemployment benefit if you have never worked.
调查显示，领取救济金时间越长，找到新工作的希望越渺茫。
Surveys show that with each passing week on the dole their chances of finding a job get slimmer.
但英国最基本的麻烦不是失业补助金给的多(于欧洲标准比起来，确实不多)，而是在于领取救济金的人数实在太多了。
But the basic trouble with benefits in Britain is not that they are lavish (by European standards, they aren't); it is that too many people receive them.
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