Skills atrophy unless they are used, but many low-end jobs give workers little chance to practise them.

技能会衰退除非它们被使用，但是许多低端工作给予工人极少使用它们的机会。

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Long-term unemployment is harder to cure, as people's skills atrophy and they become detached from the workforce.

长期远离职场造成的技能衰退，让长期失业之殇很难治愈。

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“When people take a career detour, they sometimes earn less money, lose touch with their colleagues, and their skills atrophy, ” Marx says.

Marx说：”当人们转行之后，他们有可能赚更少的钱，失去和同事的联系，并且他们的技能也退化了。

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But he is concerned about letting his skills atrophy or putting a big gap between jobs on his resume.

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Allowing long-term unemployment to atrophy the skills of workers would in turn lead to structural unemployment, and the Fed will do what it can to fight that.

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