1. Thousands of miners have been thrown on the scrapheap with no jobs and no prospects. 数千矿工被解雇，没有工作，也没有前途。
2. Only a federal bail-out saved GM from the scrapheap. 唯一把通用汽车从烂摊子中拯救出来的是联邦的破产保护。
3. Discarded American workers have not rusted on the scrapheap, as so many do in Europe. 被裁掉的美国劳工并没有像很多欧洲的失业者那样就此荒废终老。
4. But those rules have just been proposed for the scrapheap by a state-sponsored committee. 而这些规定简直就是国家赞助委员会为废品销售提出来的。
5. they are not on the scrapheap for life. They have no families to support nor dire need of the medical insurance older workers may lose when they lose their jobs. 此生衣食无忧，肩上没有供养家庭的担子，也无需像一些年长的工人一样担心失业之后没有医保作保障。
