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如今，除了日本以外，美國(guó)比任何國(guó)家的工作時(shí)間都長(zhǎng)，很多人寧愿收入減少也要減少工作時(shí)間。

聽寫形式：全文聽寫。
盡量聽寫，能聽懂多少寫多少，多聽寫一個(gè)單詞都是進(jìn)步呦~~
文中出現(xiàn)很多數(shù)字，注意數(shù)字的寫法規(guī)范喔~~

Hints:
World War II
West Germany
pay-time-off

點(diǎn)我回顧上一期的感人故事【六級(jí)聽力室】2007年6月真題短文2(2/2)
Americans suffer from an overdose of work. Regardless of who they are or what they do, Americans spend more time at work than at any time since World War II. In 1950, the US had fewer working hours than any other industrialized country. Today, it exceeds every country but Japan, where industrial employees log 2,155 hours a year, compared with 1,951 in the US, and 1,603 in the former West Germany. Between 1969 and 1989, employed Americans added an average of 138 hours to their yearly work schedules. The workweek has remained at about 40 hours, but people are working more weeks each year. Specifically pay-time-off holidays, vacations, sick leave shrank by 50% in the 1980s. As corporations have experienced stiff competition and slower growth in productivity, they have pressed employees to work longer.
美國(guó)人正面臨著超額的工作量。不管他們是誰(shuí)或者他們?cè)谧鍪裁?，美?guó)人的工作時(shí)間都已經(jīng)超過了二戰(zhàn)以來(lái)的任何時(shí)候。1950年，美國(guó)相比于其他所有工業(yè)化國(guó)家，擁有著最少的工作時(shí)間。而現(xiàn)在，美國(guó)以1951個(gè)小時(shí)的年工作時(shí)間超過了除了工人一年要工作2155個(gè)小時(shí)的日本以外的所有的國(guó)家，接著是1603個(gè)小時(shí)的前西德。在1969至1989年之間，受雇的美國(guó)人年工作時(shí)間平均增加138個(gè)小時(shí)。盡管人們一星期的工作時(shí)間仍保持在40個(gè)小時(shí)左右，但他們每年要工作更多個(gè)星期。確切的說，在20世紀(jì)80年代，帶薪休假、假期、病假減少了50%。由于公司有著經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐富的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)機(jī)制和放緩增加的生產(chǎn)力，這也促使雇員工作更長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間。 ——譯文來(lái)自: swing12345