CNN News: 美国上月工业生产跌5.4% 逊预期

Industrial production and manufacturing, two important parts of the American economy factor into our first report today on CNN 10. I'm Carl Azuz, happy to have you watching. According to the U.S. Federal Reserve, the country's central bank, 5.4 percent is how much America's industrial production dropped in march as factories stopped operating.

工业生产和制造业是美国经济的两个重要组成部分，这是我们今天CNN 10首个焦点。我是卡尔·阿祖兹，很高兴大家收看CNN10分钟新闻。根据美国联邦储备委员会的数据，美国工业生产在3月份因工厂停产而下降5.4%。

Manufacturing fell by 6.3 percent as cut backs were made in areas like car production, auto parts manufacturing and furniture making. The last time these numbers decreased by this much in a month, the year was 1946. World War II had just ended.

由于汽车生产、汽车零部件制造和家具制造等领域的减产，制造业下降6.3%。这些数字首次在一个月内下降之大是在1946年。第二次世界大战刚刚结束。

Industries were shutting down their production of war effort materials and transitioning into making consumer products again. Seventy-four years later, it's the coronavirus pandemic that's closed factories. No one knows yet how long it will take to get industry running the way it was before COVID-19 entered America.

工业部门正在停止生产战争物资，并重新转向生产消费品。74年后，冠状病毒大流行关闭了工厂。没有人知道需要多长时间才能使工业恢复到COVID-19侵蚀美国之前的状态。

According to Johns Hopkins University, more than two million coronavirus cases have been confirmed worldwide. Over 610.000 of them are in the United States and while there's still a lot that doctors don't know about the disease, a new study suggests that people might be most likely to infect others before the carriers even show symptoms themselves.

根据约翰霍普金斯大学的研究，全世界已经有超过200万的冠状病毒病例。在美国有超过61万的感染者，尽管医生对这种疾病还有诸多不了解，但一项新的研究表明，携带者很可能在出现症状之前就把病毒传染给他人。

This was published Wednesday in the journal "Nature Medicine" but the studied relied on patients memories of when they first started showing symptoms so it might be entirely accurate. Still, a growing amount of research indicates that people who feel healthy are helping spread coronavirus.

这项研究于周三发表在《自然医学》杂志上，此项研究依赖于患者对自己第一次出现症状时的记忆，所以结果可能是完全准确的。但越来越多的研究表明，健康的人更易于传播冠状病毒。

So the U.S. government's recommending that healthy people keep their faces covered whenever they leave the house. 2020 is an election year, not just for the United States but for numerous countries on every inhabited continent. South Korea is one of them and it's giving us a sense of how other elections may look in these strange and virulent times.

所以美国政府建议健康人群无论何时出门都要遮盖脸部。2020年不仅是美国的选举年，也是世界上许多国家的选举年。韩国就是其中之一，冠状病毒让我们了解到，在这个奇怪而致命的时代，其他选举可能会是什么样子。