外刊精读99 / Economist / 机器人能否取代人力
2022-11-05 16:17 作者:爱睡懒觉的Nick船长 | 我要投稿
Free exchange-revising their views on robots and jobs
Related words:
- joblessness = unemployment 失业率
- bounce back 反弹
- whether robots help or harm workers
- warning people of a jobless future
- automation 自动化 bursts/ accelerate/ reinforce automation
- vacancy 空缺
- low-skilled workers
- occupation = jobs
- be vulnerable to replacement by robots.
- firm survival
- drive competitors out of business 导致别的企业破产
Vocabulary:
- revise v&n 改变，修正
- surpass = outstrip = exceed 超过，超越
- soar = proliferate
- come to pass = happen 发生
- marginally（更多搭配比较级使用） = slightly 略微，稍微
- It may even have drawn level. 差不多降到了相同的水平 draw 提出，level 水平的，平等的
- have a hold on 对什么产生影响
- received wisdom 习以为常的说法
- in thee middle of 忙于什么，或者出于什么的的状态
- all time highs = unprecedented high
- put forward an idea/ opinion/ plan 提出
- back up 支持
- untangle 解开
- causality 因果关系
- forthcoming = around the corner 即将到来
Nice sentence:
- Covid-19 may accelerate the automation of jobs. Part of the logic is that since robots don't fall ill, bosses would turn to them instead of to people-as seemed to have happened in some previous pandemics.
- (机器人增加就业率）The direct effect of automation may be to increase employment at the firm level, not to reduce it. To be specific, automation might help a firm become more profibale and thus exapnd, leading to a increase in hring. Technology might also allow firms to move into new areas, or to focus on products and services that are labour-intensive.
