The US economy added 130,000 jobs in January, beating market expectations, in a sign of improvement in the American labour market that flies in the face of a string of recent gloomy reports.
美国1月新增13万个就业岗位，超出市场预期，这表明美国劳动力市场出现好转，与近期一系列悲观报告形成对比。
Wednesday’s figure from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was almost double the 68,000 anticipated by economists polled by Bloomberg and well above the downwardly revised 48,000 added the previous month.
美国劳工统计局(Bureau of Labor Statistics)周三公布的数据，几乎是接受彭博(Bloomberg)调查的经济学家们此前预测的6.8万个新增就业岗位的两倍，且远高于之前一个月经过下修后的4.8万个。
The unemployment rate dropped slightly to 4.3 per cent.
失业率小幅下降至4.3%。