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听考研真题|2020年英二阅读4:95后,厌恶风险,追求稳定的一代人
Now that members of Generation Z are graduating college this spring—the most commonly-accepted definition says this generation was born after 1995, give or take a year—the attention has been rising steadily in recent weeks.
【翻译】随着Z世代成员于今年春季即将大学毕业——根据最普遍接受的定义，这一代人出生于1995年之后（前后约一年）——相关关注度在最近几周内持续攀升。
Gen Zs are about to hit the streets looking for work in a labor market that’s tighter than it's been in decades.
【翻译】Z世代即将走上街头寻找工作，而当前的劳动力市场已达到数十年来最紧缩的状态。
And employers are planning on hiring about 17 percent more new graduates for jobs in the U.S. this year than last, according to a survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
【翻译】根据美国全国高校与雇主协会开展的一项调查，今年美国雇主计划招聘的应届毕业生人数将比去年增加约17%。
Everybody wants to know how the people who will soon inhabit those empty office cubicles will differ from those who came before them.
【生词】cubicle n.小卧室，斗室
【翻译】每个人都想知道，即将入驻这些空置办公隔间的人们，与此前入驻的员工有何不同。
If “entitled”is the most common adjective, fairly or not, applied to millennials (those born between 1981 and 1995), the catchwords for Generation Z are practical and cautious.
【生词】millennial n.千禧世代, 千禧之子, 千禧一代
【翻译】若将“ entitled”（享有特权）这一最常用的形容词——无论其是否恰当——用于描述千禧一代（即1981年至1995年间出生的人群）的话，那么Z世代的典型特征则是务实且谨慎。
According to the career counselors and experts who study them, Generation Zs are clear-eyed, economic pragmatists.
【生词】counselor n.顾问, 律师, 参赞, 指导老师
pragmatist n.实用主义者
【翻译】据职业顾问及相关研究专家分析，Z世代是目光敏锐、秉持经济实用主义的人群。
Despite graduating into the best economy in the past 50 years, Gen Zs know what an economic train wreck looks like.
【翻译】尽管Z世代所处的经济环境是过去50年来的最佳时期，但他们深知经济大崩盘意味着什么。
They were impressionable kids during the crash of 2008, when many of their parents lost their jobs or their life savings or both.
【翻译】在2008年金融危机期间，这些孩子尤为脆弱——当时他们的许多父母要么失去了工作，要么失去了全部积蓄，或者两者兼失。
They aren't interested in taking any chances. The booming economy seems to have done little to assuage this underlying generational sense of anxious urgency, especially for those who have college debt.
【生词】assuage vt.减轻, 缓和, 平息, 使安静
【翻译】他们不愿冒任何风险。经济的繁荣似乎并未缓解这种根深蒂固的代际焦虑感与紧迫感，尤其是对于那些背负着大学贷款的人来说。
College loan balances in the U.S. now stand at a record $1.5 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve.
【生词】Federal Reserve 美国联邦储备系统/美联储
【翻译】据美联储数据，美国高校学生贷款余额目前达到创纪录的1.5 万亿美元。
One survey from Accenture found that 88 percent of graduating seniors this year chose their major with a job in mind.
【翻译】埃森哲的一项调查发现，今年88%的应届毕业学生在选择专业时已将就业目标纳入考量。
In a 2019 survey of University of Georgia students, meanwhile, the career office found the most desirable trait in a future employer was the ability to offer secure employment (followed by professional development and training, and then inspiring purpose).
【生词】desirable adj.令人满意的, 值得拥有的, 可取的
【翻译】与此同时，在2019年对佐治亚大学学生开展的一项调查中，职业发展办公室发现，未来雇主最看重的素质是能够提供稳定的工作机会（其次是职业发展与培训，然后是具有激励性的工作意义）。
Job security or stability was the second most important career goal(work-life balance was number one), followed by a sense of being dedicated to a cause or to feel good about serving the greater good.
【翻译】职业安全感或稳定性是第二重要的职业目标（工作与生活平衡位列第一），其次是对某种事业的奉献感或为服务公共利益而感到欣慰。
That’s a big change from the previous generation. “Millennials wanted more flexibility in their lives,”notes Tanya Michelsen, Associate Director of YouthSight, a UK-based brand manager that conducts regular 60-day surveys of British youth, in findings that might just as well apply to American youth.
【生词】flexibility n.灵活性, 弹性, 柔韧性
【翻译】这与上一代人相比发生了巨大变化。“千禧一代希望在生活上拥有更多的灵活性，”Tanya Michelsen 指出。她担任英国品牌管理机构 YouthSight 的副董事，该机构定期对英国青年开展为期 60 天的调查；这些调查结果同样适用于美国青年。
“Generation Zs are looking for more certainty and stability, because of the rise of the gig economy. They have troubles seeing a financial future and they are quite risk averse.”
【生词】gig economy 零工经济
averse adj. 厌恶的；反对的
【翻译】随着零工经济的兴起，Z世代更渴望获得更多的确定性与稳定性；他们对财务前景感到迷茫，且具有较强的规避风险倾向。