原新闻网址： http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2049264,00.html 新闻内容: Less than two years after entering bankruptcy, General Motors will extend millions of dollars in bonuses to most of its 48,000 hourly workers as a reward for the company's rapid turnaround after it was rescued by the government. 进入破产之後的两年内,通用汽车将拨百万美金当作奖金去奖励四万八千位 劳工,当作在政府拯救之後,公司持续迈向轨道. The payments, disclosed Monday in company documents, are similar to bonuses announced last week for white-collar employees. The bonuses to 76,000 American workers will probably total more than $400 million — an amount that suggests executives have increasing confidence in the automaker's comeback. 这项薪资周一在公司的文件中揭露,有点像是上周对白领阶层的员工的奖励. 这项奖励对於七万六千位美国工作者将会超过四亿.将会对於执行者对於汽车 制造商的一种信心喊话. In the four years leading up to its 2009 bankruptcy, GM piled up more than $80 billion in losses and was burdened by enormous debt and costly labor contracts."On the whole, we made tremendous progress last year, " CEO and Chairman Dan Akerson said Monday in an e-mail message to employees announcing the payments. "With our collective teamwork, this can be just the beginning." The company made $4.2 billion in the first nine months of 2010 and is expected to announce a fourth-quarter profit soon. 公司经历过破产以後,在2010年前九个月赚了四十二亿美金.并且在最近会公布第四 季的成果. Most of GM's hourly workers will get a record payment of more than $4,000 — more than double the previous record in 1999, at the height of the boom in sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks. Nearly all 28,000 white-collar workers such as engineers and managers will get 4 to 16 percent of their base pay. A few — less than 1 percent — will get 50 percent or more. 这次领时薪的人将获得比1999年多出两倍的奖金,主要在休旅车与货车.几乎达到 28000白领阶级的员工,像是工程师与,管理者会得到本身薪水的4到16%的薪资当作奖金. TOEIC生字: sport utility vehicles:运动休旅车 pickup truck:小货车 fourth-quarter profit:第四季的利润 more than double the previous...:超过两倍以上.... Bill Selesky, an auto industry analyst with Argus Research in New York, called the recovery "dramatic" and said the payments were needed to stop talent from jumping to other automakers, especially crosstown rival Ford. 汽车工业分析家认为这样的奖励是必要的,且这样的动作可以让人才不被流失. auto industry:汽车工业 The company, he added, is also trying to send a message: "It's the new GM." But the bonuses drew criticism from an opponent of the auto industry bailout in Washington who said GM should repay its entire $49.5 billion loan before offering bonuses. "Since the taxpayers helped these companies out of bankruptcy, the taxpayers should be repaid before bonuses go out," said Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa. "It sends a message that those in charge take shareholders, in this case the taxpayers, for a sucker." The government has been repaid $23 billion but needs $26.4 billion more to recoup its whole investment. The government still owns 500 million shares of GM common stock, which would have to sell for roughly $53 per share to get all the money back. repay:偿还 recoup:弥补 虽然美国政府已经收到了230亿的偿还款项,但是仍然需要264亿的钱去弥补他的损失. 政府仍然拥有五亿的GM股票,如果每张股票53美元来计算,刚好可以拿回他借出去的钱. The GM documents show that the company plans to pay hourly workers at least $189 million in bonuses next month. About 45,000 workers at GM factories will get more than $4,000 each. Another 3,000 workers at old parts plants that GM is trying to sell will get $3,000 each. The company would not say how much the white-collar bonuses will cost, but calculations made by The Associated Press show the total will probably top $200 million. --

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