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Automation-The world should welcome the rise of the robots

related words:

1. computer chips 电脑芯片
2. the e-commerce boom 电子商务的兴盛
3. robots will destroy jobs。
4. automated v 使自动化
5. disruotive technology 颠覆性技术
6. have the highest robot penetration 渗透率

Vocabulary:

1. unfounded 没有根据的
2. inform sb about sth 使某人了解 be well-informed about be ill-informed about 对什么了解不足。
3. trundle = walk slowly with heavy steps 沉重而缓慢地行走
4. ravage v = damage the flood/ earthquake/ tornado/ war -ravaged country 遭受洪水/地震/龙卷风/战争璀璨的国家
5. overblown = exaggerated 夸张的
6. march ≈ advance in 稳步发展
7. for all = despite
8. On the losing end of change 因变化而失利 eg. Small, family run business will be at the losing end of a commercial battle with the large supermarkets.
9. freewheeling = not limited by rules a freewheeling lifestyle/society
10. Backlash （指对政治或社会事件的强烈反应），反对，抵制

Good sentence：

1. （机器人的快速发展）Robots have benefited from rapid innovations in smartphones, which brought cheap cameras and sensors, fast wireless communications and powerful, smaller computer chips. And more recent advances in machine learning have added software to make robots better informed about their surroundings and equipped them to make wiser decisions.
2. （机器人发展重要性）Many industries are facing a shortage of labour - the demand for workers has recoverd much faster than expected from the pandemic and some people have left the workforce, particularly in some western countries.
3. （机器人对于电子商务的好处）Warehousing has grown rapidly thanks to the e-commerce boom. Robots are now indispensable, picking items off shelves and helping people pack an exponentially(指数地） rising numbers of boxes. They are even begining to trundle slowly along some pavements, delivering gooods and ffod right to people's doors.
4. (反驳段：机器人虽然会使得人们的工作技能发生改变，但是对人类还是有好处）For all that, the march of the robots will b ring big changes to workplaces. The skills and firms that are rewarded will shift, too. But that need not be the disaster many fear. One supposed example of "bad automation' is self-service checkouts in supermarkets, because they displace human workers. But this is groundless concern because robots could perform work, such as butchering, that is unpleasant or stigmatised. Checkout staff who retrain to help customers pick items from asiles may well find that dealing with people in need is more rewarding than spending all day swiping barcodes n front of lasers.
5. Freewheeling globalisation is that the growth in trade that was overwhelmingly benefical triggerd a political backlash, because the losers felt left behind.
6. (政府和企业为什么要帮助劳动者掌握新技能）Inevitably, some people will be on the losing end of change and they are forced to lose their position to live hand-to-mouth. Though the trend makes society as a whole better off, their strong feeling of being left behind would trigger a backlash. That is why firms and governments would do well to recognise the value of retraining and lifelong lerning. As jobs change, workers should be helped to acquire new skills, including how to work with and manage the increasing robots colleagues.

Writing ideas：

第一段由古至今的写作手法，从起源谈起慢慢接近现在索要谈论的话题