週五上午,美國勞工統計局公佈的數據顯示,美國經濟原本預計為正在快速擴張,但 4 月僅新增了 26.6 萬個工作崗位,這令美國的經濟學家和政策制定者感到震驚。

Economists and policymakers in the U.S. were stunned Friday morning when the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the U.S. economy, thought to be expanding at a rapid pace, added only 266,000 jobs in April.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 週五 Zhōu Friday
=1 週五 zhōu Friday
2 上午 shàng morning

classifier:

3 美國 Měiguó United States; USA; US
4 勞工 láogōng
  1. labor
  2. laborer
5 統計 tǒng
  1. statistics
  2. to count
  3. to add up
=6 narrow
=6
  1. office
  2. situation
  3. classifier for games: match, set, round etc
=6 cramped; narrow
7 公佈 gōng variant of 公布 gōng
=8 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=8 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=8 really and truly
=8 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
9 數據 shù data
10 顯示 xiǎnshì
  1. to show
  2. to illustrate
  3. to display
  4. to demonstrate
11 美國 Měiguó United States; USA; US
12 經濟 jīng
  1. economy
  2. economic
13 原本 yuánběn
  1. originally
  2. original
14 預計
  1. to forecast
  2. to predict
  3. to estimate
=15 wéi
  1. as (in the capacity of)
  2. to take sth as
  3. to act as
  4. to serve as
  5. to behave as
  6. to become
  7. to be
  8. to do
  9. by (in the passive voice)
=15 wèi
  1. because of
  2. for
  3. to
16 正在 zhèngzài to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing
17 快速 kuài fast; high-speed; rapid
18 擴張 kuòzhāng
  1. expansion
  2. dilation
  3. to expand (e.g. one's power or influence)
  4. to broaden
19 dàn
  1. but; yet; however; still
  2. merely; only; just
20 yuè
  1. moon
  2. month
  3. monthly

classifiers: ,

=21 jǐn
  1. barely
  2. only
  3. merely
=21 jìn
  1. (literary) nearly; almost
  2. nearly; almost
22 新增 xīnzēng
  1. to add (sth new)
  2. newly added; additional
=23 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=23 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=23 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=23 liào unofficial variant of liào
=24 Wàn surname Wan
=24 wàn
  1. ten thousand
  2. a great number
=25 used in 自個兒 r
=25
  1. (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier)
  2. (bound form) individual
26 工作 gōngzuò
  1. to work
  2. (of a machine) to operate
  3. job
  4. work
  5. task

classifiers: , ,

27 崗位 gǎngwèi a post; a job
=28 zhè
  1. (pronoun) this; these
  2. (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun)
  3. (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. zhèi, esp. in Beijing)
=28 zhèi (coll.) this
=29 líng
  1. used in 脊令 líng
  2. used in 令狐 Líng (Taiwan pr. lìng)
=29 lǐng classifier for a ream of paper
=29 lìng
  1. to order
  2. to command
  3. an order
  4. warrant
  5. writ
  6. to cause
  7. to make sth happen
  8. virtuous
  9. honorific title
  10. season
  11. government position (old)
  12. type of short song or poem
30 美國 Měiguó United States; USA; US
=31 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=31 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=31 really and truly
=31 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
32 經濟學家 jīngxuéjiā economist
33 和政 zhèng see 和政縣 zhèng Xiàn
=34 surname Ce
=34
  1. policy
  2. plan
  3. scheme
  4. bamboo slip for writing (old)
  5. to whip (a horse)
  6. to encourage
  7. riding crop with sharp spines (old)
  8. essay written for the imperial examinations (old)
  9. upward horizontal stroke in calligraphy
=34 variant of
=34 variant of
35 制定 zhìdìng to draw up; to formulate
36 zhě
  1. (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...
  2. (after a noun) person involved in ...
  3. -er
  4. -ist
  5. (used after a number or hòu or qián to refer to sth mentioned previously)
  6. (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term)
  7. (old) (used at the end of a command)
  8. (old) this
37 感到 gǎndào to feel; to sense; to perceive
38 震驚 zhènjīng
  1. to shock
  2. to astonish