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Jun 2, 2010

失業的 unemployed


失 (lose) 業 (job) 的 ('s)
Simplified, 失业的

At first glance, all this seems a bit odd. Usually new businesses take off in good times when consumers are flush and banks are eager to lend. So why all this entrepreneurship last year?

In a word, unemployment. Booted off company payrolls, millions of Americans had no choice but to try selling themselves. Another term for “entrepreneur” is “self-employed.”

- Entrepreneur or Unemployed? by Robert B. Reich, The New York Times

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