ECONOMICS REPORT - Learning Business Skills Through Junior Achievement
Thu, 17 July 2008
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.
经济报道－JA（青年成就会）传授商务技能
2008年7月17日
这是VOA特别英语的经济报道。
Junior Achievement is an international movement to educate young people about business and economics. The purpose is to help them prepare to succeed in a world economy.
JA是一国际活动，向青年传授商务与经济。其目的是帮助他们在世界经济中取得成功。
The organization is the largest of its kind. JA Worldwide says it reaches over eight million students each year in more than one hundred countries. Programs begin in elementary school and continue through middle and high school. The education is based on the ideas of market-based economics and entrepreneurship.
JA是类似组织中最大的一个。JA全球说，每年在100多个国际中帮助800多万学生。项目从小学开始，并贯穿于初中和高中。教育的基础理念是市场经济及创业。
Junior Achievement began in nineteen nineteen in Springfield, Massachusetts. Two business leaders, Horace Moses and Theodore Vail, joined with Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts to start it.
JA于1919年发端于马萨诸塞州的斯普林菲尔德。二位商界领袖（Horace Moses和Theodore Vail）和马塞诸塞州议员Murray Crane一起开创了这个组织。
For more than fifty years, Junior Achievement programs met after school. They began as a group of business clubs. The organization started with a small number of children ages ten to twelve.
50多年来，JA项目在放学后进行。这些项目以商务俱乐部的形式开展；JA的对象是年龄10－12岁的少量儿童。
But in nineteen seventy-five, Junior Achievement began to offer classes during school hours. Many more young people joined the organization once it began to teach business skills as part of the school day.
但是在1975年，JA开始在在校时间提供课程。开始在校传授商务技能后，更多的青年加入了JA。
Volunteers from the community teach about businesses, how they are organized, and how products are made and sold. They also teach about the American and world economies and about industry and trade.
社区的志愿者传授公司的组建、产品的生产与销售。他们也讲授美国经济与世界经济以及工业与贸易。
The Junior Achievement Company Program teaches young people how entrepreneurship works. They learn about business by operating their own companies.
JA的公司项目告诉青年如何创业。青年运营自己的公司，从而学习商务。
The students develop a product and sell shares in their company. They use the money to buy the materials they need to make their product, which then they sell. Finally, they return the profits to the people who bought shares in the company.
学习开发产品，并出售公司的股票。他们用这些（出售股票的）钱，采购生产产品所需要的原料，然后出售产品。最后，他们将利润返还给购买公司股票的人。
Junior Achievement says two hundred eighty-seven thousand volunteers support its programs around the world. In the United States alone, there are more than twenty-two thousand places that hold Junior Achievement events.
JA说，287,000志愿者在全球开展其项目。仅在美国，应有2200多个地方举办JA活动。
Junior Achievement Incorporated and Junior Achievement International combined their operations in two thousand four. They formed Junior Achievement Worldwide. Its headquarters are in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
JA公司以及JA国际在2004年合并其运营，成立了JA全球，其总部在科罗拉多州的科罗拉多斯普林斯。
And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report, written by Shelley Gollust and Mario Ritter. Transcripts and archives of our reports are at www.unsv.com along with a link to the Junior Achievement Web site, ja.org. I'm Faith Lapidus.
这是由Shelley Gollust 和Mario Ritter编写的VOA特别英语的经济报道。节目的文稿和档案，请访问www.unsv.com，并可联接JA网站ja.org。我是Faith Lapidus。
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