雅思聽力口語(BBC)聽抄訓練 - 歐洲社會補貼福利引發爭議

BBC News with Jonathan Izard.

Jonathan Izard為您播報BBC新聞。

The European Commission has releasedfigures rejecting claims that migrants within Europe are draining their hostcountries' resources by avoiding work and claiming social benefits.

有傳聞稱在歐洲的移民不工作而申請社會補貼，掏空了所在國的資源，而歐洲委員會公佈的資料反駁了該觀點。

With the details, here's Paul Henley.

Paul Henley在這詳細報導。

The commission says European migrantswithout work make up less than 1% of the EU's population.

該委員會稱沒有工作的歐洲移民占了歐洲人口的近1%。

It also says that while overall migrationhas increased over the last decade, the proportion of migrants without work hasdecreased despite big rises in unemployment rates in host countries.

它也表示儘管過去十年來總的移民人數增加了，但儘管所在國的失業率大大增加，但無業移民的比例卻下降了。

Its figure suggests that most migrants notworking are students, pensioners or caring for children, and that the majorityshare a house with at least one person in work.

它的資料顯示大多數沒有工作的移民是學生、領退休金的人和需要照顧的孩子，並且，大多數移民的家庭至少有一個工作者。

The report's conclusion is that inter-EUmigrants pay significantly more in taxes than they get in benefits andservices.

該報導的結論是，歐洲各國間的移民者所交納的稅額比他們所獲得的補貼和服務要多。

A spokesman for the British prime ministerhas insisted there is widespread and understandable concern about what hisgovernment calls benefit tourism.

英國首相的發言人堅稱，人們對政府所謂的福利旅遊表現出普遍的擔心，這是可以理解的。

He said the UK government was working withother EU countries to stop migrants arriving specifically to get social welfarepayments.

他表示英國政府正與歐洲其他國家一起，努力阻止移民專為獲得社會福利而來。

Some British newspapers today claimed thereare as many as 600,000 unemployed foreign European citizens in the UK, a figurethe European Commission says is quite simply wholly wrong.

今天有的英國報刊稱，英國共有60萬失業的外國歐洲公民，歐洲委員會稱這個資料顯然不對。

President Obama is to meet Congressionalleaders at the White House for more talks aimed at ending the partialgovernment shutdown currently in its 14th day.

在部分政府關門的第14天后，奧巴馬總統在白宮會見在國會領導人，希望就結束政府關門進行更多的會談。

A statement from the White House said aplanned meeting has now been postponed to allow the Senate more time tonegotiate.

來自白宮的聲明稱，為了允許參議院有更多的時間進行協商，原定的會議現在已經被推遲。

Aides to the leaders of both parties havetold the BBC they are no closer to a deal, but speaking earlier in the day, MrObama struck a more positive note.

兩黨領導人的助手告訴BBC，目前尚未達成協議，但在當天早些時候，奧巴馬先生促成了一場較積極的會議。

“There's been some progress on the Senateside with Republicans recognising it's not tenable, it's not smart, it's not goodfor the American people to let America default.

“目前參議院已經取得了一些進展，共和黨承認進展並非無懈可擊，對美國人來說，讓美國違約是不明智的，是糟糕的。

There's been some progress in recognisingthat we are not going to be able to completely bridge the differences betweenthe parties all at once, and so it doesn't make sense in the meantime to try touse a shutdown or the…

能夠承認我們不可能一次性就彌合兩黨的分歧，這就是進步。