英语翻译In the twelve months before I took office,American auto companies lost hundreds of thousands of jobs.Sales plunged 40 percent.Liquidation was a very real possibility.Years of papering over tough problems and failing to adapt to changing times – combined with a vicious economic crisis – brought an industry that’s been the symbol of our manufacturing might for a century to the brink of collapse.
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英语翻译
In the twelve months before I took office,American auto companies lost hundreds of thousands of jobs.Sales plunged 40 percent.Liquidation was a very real possibility.Years of papering over tough problems and failing to adapt to changing times – combined with a vicious economic crisis – brought an industry that’s been the symbol of our manufacturing might for a century to the brink of collapse.
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在我就职前的十二个月里,美国汽车公司裁掉了数十万个工作岗位.销售下滑了40%.破产清算成为了非常现实的可能.多年来掩饰发展难题,不能适应变化的时代,再加上可恶的经济危机,使得一世纪来我们制造业的象征行业濒临崩溃的边缘.