英国:上班路程越远挣得越多?_BEC初级作文

英国:上班路程越远挣得越多?

The further you commute the more you are likely to earn, new figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal.

英国国家统计局的新数据显示，你上下班路程越远，就可能挣得越多。

Those travelling more than 60 minutes earn an average of ￡18.80 an hour - almost double the ￡9.60 earned by those who travel for less than 15 minutes.

那些要花60分钟以上时间乘车上班的人平均每小时赚18.8英镑，而那些花不到15分钟就能到上班地点的人平均每小时赚9.6英镑，前者是后者的近两倍。

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Three quarters of people take less than half an hour to get to work across the UK except for London where more than half of workers - 56 per cent - take longer than 30 minutes.

从全英国范围来看，四分之三的人花在上班路上的时间不到半小时，但伦敦就比较特殊，超过一半（56%）的上班族到达工作地点需要半个小时以上的时间。

A staggering91 per cent of commuters outside the capital make their way into work without the use of public transport - in London that figure is 60 per cent with the rest using buses, the Tubeand trains.

那些不住在首都的英国上班族中，多达91%的人不需乘坐公共交通工具就能到达工作地点，而在伦敦这一比例为60%，其他人都需乘坐公交车、地铁或火车。

Based on figures for the last three months of 2009, the statistics showed that 59 per cent of all workers in the UK worked and lived in the same local authority district.