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But Chile suffered a general strike last week, in part over the role of the public sector in education, a common middle-class concern.
但是上周智利遭遇了大罢工，部分原因是公共部门在中产阶级普遍关心的教育问题上扮演的角色。
But the Spanish government appears to have a rather more relaxed attitute to the first general strike to hit the country in eight years.
但西班牙政府似乎以更为轻松的态度面对该国八年来首次大罢工。
Beleaguered Greece was hit by a 48-hour general strike, as its parliament prepared to vote on a fresh round of spending cuts and tax rises.
在国会准备就削减开支和增加税收进行新一轮投票之际，麻烦缠身的希腊有遭受了一个持续48小时的大罢工。

Jewish settlement councils have declared a general strike to protest the Israeli government's freeze on construction in West Bank communities.
The Home Ministry is warning the general strike, Monday and Tuesday, may be accompanied by attacks against security forces.
This was clear on Wednesday hardline separatists called a general strike to protest the Indian leader's two day visit to the region.

He has cut civil-service pay by 5%, raised VAT and ridden out a general strike.
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a strike in which most workers in a country refuse to work until they are given higher pay or something else that they want

A general strike is a situation where most or all of the workers in a country are on strike and are refusing to work.