the Great Recession

基本解释

I never liked the term "The Great Recession," because this is not an ordinary recession, not even a great one.
“大衰退”这个术语我向来是不喜欢的，这不是一个普通的衰退，更不是史无前例的一个。
THE devastation wrought by the great recession is still all too real for millions of Americans who lost their jobs, businesses and homes.
对于那些失去工作、企业和住房的数百万美国人来说，这次大衰退造成的破坏再真实不过了。
Of course the level of stock prices have remained far below 2007 peaks, as the Great Recession we have entered is bad enough, even if we avoided outright depression.
当然，股票价格水平仍然远远低于2007年高峰时的股价水平，因为我们已进入了足够糟糕的大衰退中，即使我们避免了彻底萧条。

The Great Recession gave some mothers no choice but to work, as job cuts hit hard at men.
But then the U.S. crashed into a huge well actually it was as worldwide recession of 1981-2.This was the biggest recession since The Great Depression.
但是之后，美国卷进了一个巨大的,事实上，是个世界范围内的经济衰退,于1981-1982年，这是自从大萧条以来,最严重的一次经济衰退。
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Jennifer Neiman (NY-man) and her sister Susan Woodhouse opened the bakery about a year ago, right in the middle of the Great Recession.

In 2007, prior to the Great Recession, the black teen unemployment rate was about 29 percent.
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