automation

1Automation meant the loss of many factory jobs.自動化意味着許多工廠工人失業。《牛津詞典》

2In the last ten years automation has reduced the work force here by half.在過去的10年中，自動化已經減少了這裏一半的勞動力。《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》

3Administrative staff may be deskilled through increased automation and efficiency.隨着自動化程度和效率提高，行政人員可能不再需要專業技能。《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》

4Automation has obsoleted many unskilled workers.自動化使很多非技術工人受到淘汰。《新英漢大辭典》

5That's why automation is key to precision farming.這就是為什麼自動化是精準農業的關鍵。

6Automation isn't just affecting factory workers, either.自動化也不僅僅是影響工廠的工人。

7Why are people so insistent on ignoring the perils of automation?為什麼人們執意對自動化的危害視而不見呢？

8In response, local manufacturers have been quick to embrace automation.作為迴應，當地製造商欣然採納了自動化進程。

9Resisting automation is futile: it is as inevitable as industrialization was before it.抵制自動化是徒勞的：它就像之前的工業化一樣不可避免。

10Technology broadly and automation specifically are dramatically reshaping the way we work.廣泛來説是技術，確切而言是自動化，正在極大地改變我們的工作方式。

11The subject of automation and its role in our economy has taken hold in American public discourse.自動化及其在我們經濟中所起作用的話題已在美國公眾話語中佔據一席之地。

12We don't have to look further than our own communities to see the devastating impact of automation.我們只需看看自己的社區，就能發現自動化的巨大影響。

13American families and prominent business leaders are aware that there's a big problem with automation.美國家庭和傑出的商業領袖都意識到自動化存在一個大問題。

14The challenge of coping with automation underlines the need for the U.S. to revive its fading business dynamism.應對自動化的挑戰凸顯出美國重振其日漸衰落的商業活力的必要性。

15To be sure, robotics are not the only job killers out there, with outsourcing stealing far more gigs than automation.可以肯定的是，機器人並不是唯一的工作殺手，外包偷走的工作比自動化多得多。

16The new service will bring the educational consortium into a growing conflict over the role of the automation education.這一新的服務將會使教育聯盟陷入有關自動化在教育中所扮演角色的更激烈的爭論。

17It's a creation of ABB, the Swiss power and automation giant, which introduced it early this month at the Hannover trade show.它是瑞士電力和自動化巨頭 ABB 公司的產品，ABB 公司本月初在漢諾威貿易展上推出了這款產品。

18Companies that embrace automation might use fewer workers, but that's still better than firing everyone and moving the work overseas.採用自動化的公司可能會使用更少的工人，但這仍然比解僱所有人並將工作轉移到海外要好。

19Factory bosses in many developed countries are worried about a lack of skilled human workers—and see automation and robots as a solution.許多發達國家的工廠老闆擔心會缺少熟練的人類勞動者，並將自動化和機器人視為解決方案。

20Likewise, automation should eventually boost productivity, stimulate demand by driving down prices, and free workers from hard, boring work.同樣，自動化最終應該提高生產力，通過降低價格來刺激需求，並把工人從繁重、乏味的工作中解脱出來。

21If we want an economy that allows everyone to be economically secure, we need to start thinking about how we can rightfully address automation.如果我們想要一個能讓每個人都獲得經濟安全的經濟體制，我們就需要開始考慮如何正確處理自動化問題。

22Finally, because automation threatens to widen the gap between capital income and labor income, taxes and the safety net will have to be rethought.最後，由於自動化有可能擴大資本收入和勞動收入之間的差距，税收和社會保障體系將不得不被重新考慮。

23That's because there are a number of powerful voice manipulation and automation technologies that are about to become widely available for anyone to use.這是因為有許多強大的語音操作和自動化技術即將被普及，任何人都可以使用。

24The challenge of coping with automation underlines the need for the U.S. to revive its fading business dynamism: Starting new companies must be made easier.應對自動化的挑戰凸顯出美國重振其日漸衰落的商業活力的必要性：必須讓新公司的創辦變得更容易。

25As lives are affected by any number of looming challenges—climate crisis, automation in the workplace—humans are going to need creative thinking more than ever.隨着生活受到各種迫在眉睫的挑戰影響，即氣候危機和工作場所自動化的影響，人類比以往任何時候都需要創造性思維。

26When there is rapid improvement in the price and performance of technology, jobs that were once thought to be immune from automation suddenly become threatened.當技術的價格和性能迅速提高時，一度被認為不受自動化影響的工作突然受到威脅。

27In Forces of Production, David Noble examines the transformation of the machine-tool industry as the industry moved from reliance on skilled artisans to automation.在《生產的力量》一書中，大衞·諾布爾檢視了機牀工業從依賴熟練技工到依賴自動化的轉變。

28There is another reason to explain why automation may be the way forward according to Eldert Henten, a robotics researcher at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.荷蘭瓦赫寧根大學的機器人學研究員 Eldert Henten 表示，還有其他原因可以解釋為什麼自動化可能是未來的發展方向。

29Technology will improve society in ways big and small over the next few years, yet this will be little comfort to those who find their lives and careers upended by automation.在接下來幾年裏，科技總會在大大小小的方面促進社會進步，但對那些生活和工作都被自動化顛覆的人來説，這並沒有什麼安慰作用。

30It can't when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius.這是不可能的，因為會有更多的僱主有更多的機會接觸到比平均水平高得多且廉價的外國勞動力、機器人、軟件、自動化技術和人才。 ^[1]