Day1 How robots make humans indispensable

地道表达

• In recent months, anthropologists have been rummaging through the grassroots of America’s workforce jungle in search of an answer to one of the great questions of our time: what happens to human jobs when robots arrive?
  [rummage] 翻找，乱翻
  Eg. My room was rummaged by someone.

• Manufacturing offers a particularly **stark **example of this.
  [stark] 简陋的，无修饰的，荒凉，严酷的
  Eg. There is a stark choice.

• There is, however, an intriguing twist.
  [intriguing] 由于奇特，神秘而迷人，有趣。
  Eg. This is the most intriguing works I have ever seen.

• Software automation can substitute for labour but it also creates new human-machine complementaries
  [complementary] 互补的，互为余角（几何运用）
  Eg. Although Artificial Intelligence is different from human mind， they play the complementary roles in some ways.

• But if he does succeed in this goal of America First he will — paradoxically — only accelerate the automation trend as companies will scramble to cut costs.
  [paradoxically] 自相矛盾地，反常地
  Eg. Paradoxically，the more suppression the stronger rebound.
  [翻译] 但是，如果他成功地实现了“美国第一”这个目标，反而加速了自动化的趋势，因为各公司更想减少开销。

• New types of social security, health and pension systems are necessary to accommodate **contingent workers. **
  [contingent] 视条件而定的，代表团 （经常与on搭配）
  [contingent worker] 应急工人

其他表达：

• vocal on 在某方面激烈地表达意见
  *Silicon Valley 硅谷
  *summon 召唤，鼓气
  *imperative 紧急的，紧急的事
  *instil 渗透
• traction 牵引力 ➡️tractor 拖拉机➡️track 轨道，追踪注意区别，类比
• pull …into spotlight 拖到聚光灯下（进入公众视野）

专业知识
*American Anthropological Association：
美国人类学学会英文全名为：American Anthropological Association，缩写形式为AAA。美国人类学年会每年举行一次，每次都在不同的城市召开，时间亦不定，但是都在年底，通常为11月或者12月。美国人类学学会是世界上规模最大的人类学学会，有一万二千名会员，每年出席会议的全球人类学家达数千名之多。
*Bureau of Labor Statistics：It is a unit of the United States Department of Labor. It is the principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics and serves as a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System. The BLS is a governmental statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public, the U.S. Congress, other Federal agencies, State and local governments, business, and labor representatives. The BLS also serves as a statistical resource to the Department of Labor, and conducts research into how much families need to earn to be able to enjoy a decent standard of living.
美国劳工统计局[略作B.L.S.]，是美国联邦政府劳动经济和劳工统计的主要机构，负责收集、加工、分析、以及向公众发布重要的统计数据。BLS也是美国劳动部的统计数据来源。BLS机构网站提供的数据包括通货膨胀与价格、消费支出、失业数据、就业数据、福利待遇、产出率、工伤统计等等。

Source：Wikipedia

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