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1. In some departments there is too much make-work.
有些部门的无聊琐事太多。

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2. These are simply make-work schemes for accountants.
这些方案只不过是让会计师继续忙碌而已。

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3. Cash is pouring into rural areas through a make-work scheme, named after Gandhi.
现金通过以甘地命名的为提供就业机会而安排的工作计划注入农村地区。

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4. Unemployment has been masked by job subsidies and make-work schemes, but it is likely to climb back above 4m next year.
在给予工作补贴和执行创造就业计划试图极力挽回就业率的情况下,明年的失业人口预期仍将超过400万。

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5. “Make-work” state schemes to mop them up are nearly as bad as doing nothing, his findings show, and temporary jobs only a bit better.
他的调查表明:为了工作而工作差不多和失业一样糟糕,暂时工作还勉强可以。

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6. Stimulus measures, which have included increased spending on anti-poverty and make-work programmes as well as interest-rate cuts, have been overwhelmed.
包括增加反贫困资金,增加促进就业项目,降低利率等措施在内的刺激措施,在这次衰退面前也显得苍白无力。

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7. We need a narrative of episodes of severe unemployment that does not embody crude make-work bias but does not deny the existence of large amounts of involuntary unemployment.
我们需要对严重失业时期提供一种叙述,该叙述既不体现粗糙的“造作工作成见”,但也不拒绝承认大规模非自愿失业的存在。

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8. We need a narrative of episodes of severe unemployment that does not embody crude make-work bias but does not deny the existence of large amounts of involuntary unemployment.
我们需要对严重失业时期提供一种叙述,该叙述既不体现粗糙的“造作工作成见”,但也不拒绝承认大规模非自愿失业的存在。

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