官方数据显示,在三个月内,失业人数突增了 22 万人,到 7 月份将近 250 万的失业人数让失业率创下 14 年来的最高纪录——7.8%。
Official data showed that unemployment jumped by 220, 000 in the three months to June to a 14-year high of almost 2.5 million - a jobless rate of 7.8%.
失业人数也随之上升至220万,失业率从6.3%升至7.1%,预计顶峰时失业人数将达到300万,10%的失业率也越来越有可能。
That pushed unemployment up to 2.2m and the jobless rate up from 6.3% to 7.1%, making predictions of eventual peaks of 3m and 10% look increasingly plausible.
这种情况暗示今年将有120万人面临失业,失业率将会上升到6.5个百分点。10月份的失业人数是前三个月失业人数的一半。
It brought the toll of lost jobs to 1.2 million for the year - more than half in the last three months alone - while the unemployment rate climbed to 6.5 percent.
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