2014年12月大学英语四级翻译的练习及解析（27）

　　　请将下面这段话翻译成英文：

　　截至2005年第三季度，全国劳动力市场供求状况显示，我国15岁至29岁的青年总体失业率达到了9%，远远高于4.5%的城镇平均登记失业率。而在此之中，选择主动失业的占到了一半以上。

　　主动放弃就业机会的原因很多，但这些人都有一个共性，就是不会因为经济原因饿死。至少在短时间内。复旦大学教授葛剑雄认为，社会发展到现在，一些青年人的确具备了可以失业的条件。他们不用像上班族那样刻板地工作，可是相比之下他们的生活却格外富足。

　　参考答案:

　　Update to the third quarter of 2005,the supply and demand of the whole nations labor force market indicated that the overall unemployment rate of our countrys youth from the age of 15 to 29 was up to 9%,which was much higher than 4.5% of the average rural area register unemployment rate.Among this group,the number of people actively choosing to be unemployed was more than a half.

　　There are many reasons to give up the chance of employment,but those people have a common feature that they do not starve for economic reasons at least in a short period.The professor Ge Jianxiong of Fudan University thought that some young people indeed had the conditions to be unemployed as the society develops to nowadays.They do not need to work routinely like the office workers,but comparatively their life was extremely well-off.

　　选择主动失业的占到了一半以上

　　分析:

　　选择主动失业翻译为:choosing to be unemployed。