（求助）一个短语的意思

carlotta

With a record number of new companies starting up in Derderia and with previously established companies adding many jobs, a record number of new jobs were created last year in the Derderian economy.  This year, previously established companies will not be adding as many new jobs overall as such companies added last year.  Therefore, unless a record number of companies start up this year, Derderia will not break its record for new jobs created.

 

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument relies?

 

(A) Each year, new companies starting up create more new jobs overall than do previously established companies.

(B) Companies established last year will not add a greater number of jobs overall this year than they did last year.

(C) This year, the new companies starting up will not provide substantially more jobs per company than did new companies last year.

(D) This year, the overall number of jobs created by previously established companies will be less than the overall number of jobs lost at those companies.

(E) The number of jobs created in the Derderian economy last year was substantially larger than the number of jobs lost last year.

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我想问下大家这题的a record number of是什么意思啊？

amumu

创纪录的公司数量

题目：

随着创纪录的新公司数量增长和已有公司的工作岗位增加，去年D经济中新工作的增加数量创了记录。今年，已有公司增加的工作岗位不会比去年多。所以，今年如果没有一个创纪录的新公司数量增长的话，D就不会打破（去年）的新工作数量的记录了。

C：今年，新公司提供的按公司平均工作岗位不会比去年多。

取非：每个新公司提供的工作岗位数量比去年多->新公司比去年少也可以提供足够的新工作->weaken结论。

carlotta

噢~~谢谢amumu。。。我总算明白了~~