外刊逐句精读:《经济学人》这届世界杯和印度有什么关系?
2022-12-04 19:50 作者:爱睡懒觉的Nick船长 | 我要投稿

The World Cup-India's hospitality workers are heading to Qatar
Related words:
- pandemic-induced 疫情导致的 e.g. pandemic-induced lockdown
- take up employment 打工 e.g. It is the resut of the state's hospitality employees moving enmass to Qatar, not to watch football but to take up employment tied to the World Cup.
- press sb/sth into service 临时凑合 E.g. Every type of boat was pressed into service to rescue passengers.
- profit from sb/sth 从什么中获利 e.g. Should companies profit from something we all need?
- the Gulf 波斯湾
- Returning workers will be welcomed back with open arms. 受到热烈欢迎和拥抱
Vocabulary:
- quater=quater n.城镇的一个地区 e.g. the historic quarter of the city
- bustling adj 熙熙攘攘,热闹的 e.g. This used to be a bustling town but a lot of people have moved away over recent years.
- be equivalent to 相当于
- voracious adj 贪婪的,贪吃的 e.g. Voracious eater 贪吃鬼 e.g.2 a boy with a voracious and undiscriminating appetite for facts
- share prices 股价
Nice sentence:
- (该帮工作机会少,很多人外出务工)Kerla has long been a significant source of hospitality workers for Qatar and other Middle Eastern countries. Its state government provides good schools with English-language instruction but few jobs. More than 2m people, 17% of its working population, already work overseas, largely in the Gulf. The 18bn or so they send back each year, is equivalent to around 14% of the state's output.
- (为了代替劳动力流失,向全印度招聘,招聘的多数是学徒)To replace those who have left, kerala's employers have been casting their nets wider. Recruiters have been voracious, extend their searches to many other Indian Cities, most notably Mumbai. But that means the most common word on nametags pinned to the breast pockets of workers is "trainee". Those new to the workforce are too shy to smile at customers, one of many skills needed to be taught. What is worse, after a week's training or when confidence grows, these employees may slip away to the gulf. Large hotel chains operating in India have added to the flight by sending senior employees to Qatar to get new operations up and running.(去卡塔尔拓展业务)