2013年text1第一段，第二段

　　①In an essay, entitled “Making It in America,” in the latest issue of The Atlantic, the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, “a man and a dog. ②The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.”

　　③Davidson’s article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and sagging middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand and because of the Great Recession, but it is also because of the quantum advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution, which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign workers.

 

句子切分：

第一句：

1. In an essay, entitled “Making It in America,” in the latest issue of The Atlantic,

2. the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country

3. （a joke） about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated:

4. The average mill has only two employees today, “a man and a dog.

翻译解析：发表在大西洋报最新一期上一篇名为《成功在美国》（修饰语前置）的文章中，作者亚当.戴维森讲述了一则来自棉产区的笑话，与现代纺织厂的自动化有关：一普通纺织厂如今只需要两个雇员：“一个人和一只狗。

 

第二句：

1. The man is there to feed the dog,

2. and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.”

翻译解析：人来喂狗，狗防止人接近机器。

 

第三句：

1. Davidson’s article is one of a number of pieces

2. （the pieces）that have recently appeared making the point

3. （the reason）we have such stubbornly high unemployment and sagging middle-class incomes today

4.  that the reason is largely because of the big drop in demand and because of the Great Recession,

5. but it（the reason） is also because of the quantum advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution,

6. （globalization and the information technology revolution） which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign workers.

翻译解析：戴维森的这篇文章和近几年来的（定语从句前置）诸多文章一样，认为目前失业率居高不下以及中产阶级收入下降（减词法，省略了“原因”），在很大程度上都是由于大萧条引起的需求大幅下降，，但同时也是由于全球化和信息技术革命的突破性进步，这种进步使得机器和外来雇工取代劳动力的速度高于历史任何时期（定语从句信息过多，分开翻译）。

 

动词及短语（重点）：

entitle:本文表示以...命名；entitle在前面真题中也出现过，表示使某人获得做某事的权利；重点词汇

relate：这里考查了该词作为叙述，讲述这一非常重要的义项；该词还可以表示与。。相联系；

automate（动词，使自动化）-automation（名词，自动化）注意前面我们有用到其形容词与副词形式automatic/automatically表示无意识的；

keep away from ：远离...；

make a/the point：提出观点；

drop：这里用作名词，就相当于decline下降，多次出现，真题高频；

revolve（动词，旋转）-revolution（名词，革命）

replace A with B: 用B来取代A

reshape-remove-replace-restate-reverse-reinforce-represent这是目前真题中出现的带有前缀re的单词，可以复习下；

 

其他相关词汇：

demand（市场）需求-supply（市场）供应；

Great Recession：大萧条；注意这里的首字母大写，应该是特指1930s那一次的大萧条时期；

global-globalization

more than ever:超出任何时候；

essay:散文，随笔；

article：文章；就相当于上文提到的essay；

textile mill：纺织厂；textile纺织品；mill工厂；磨坊；

employee（雇员）-employer（雇主）

piece of (work/article/music)：piece这个单词虽然简单，但在真题中它作为量词经常与不同的名词连用；比如这里的一件作品/一篇文章/一首音乐。

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