VOA标准英语2011--Wisconsin Excels in Job Creation
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2011年(十一月)
Wisconsin Excels in Job Creation
Jobs, jobs, jobs. As political rhetoric 1 intensifies 2 in tough economic times, everybody’s talking about jobs and job creation.
A trip to the small Midwest state of Wisconsin might be instructive. It routinely finishes at or near the top in job creation, especially in the manufacturing sector 3.
That’s the part of the economy - automobiles 4, appliances, textiles, electronics - that has seen the steepest job losses.
But not in bustling 5 Wisconsin, at least not to an alarming degree.
We’re not talking heavy industry or even the state’s famous cheesemaking. Rather, Wisconsin produces an endless assortment 6 of products in little factories you see tucked among its green, manicured farms. Riding past, you may catch their names on a little sign, but have no clue what the places make.
They make things like the water jugs 7 a delivery person hauls down our hall every few weeks. And not just the bottles, but also their pop-off tops, the metal cart that carries them, and the plastic cartons into which the bottles of water fit snugly 8.
Renowned 9 architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Racine, Wisconsin headquarters of the company that makes Johnson’s waxes.
Curt 10 Manufacturing in Eau Claire makes metal ball hitches 11 for trailers. Great White Dental Lab in Lodi fashions enamel 12 teeth called “crowns.” Universal Die & Stampings in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, makes battery caps.
And K & B Innovations in North Lake creates “Shrinky Dinks,” which are little plastic thingys that kids can color and then shrink in the oven.
And somebody, somewhere in the Badger 13 State builds the vats 14 and forms, and the big stirring paddles and conveyor belts without which there’d be no Wisconsin cheese.
We don’t pay much attention when these companies win an award, add workers, or come out with a new product.
But taken together, they’re a big part of the nation’s economic engine that people are always talking about.
- Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
- Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。
- A clear atmosphere intensifies the blue of the sky. 纯净的空气使天空变得更蓝。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Blowing on fire intensifies the heat. 吹火使热度加强。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
- The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
- When automobiles become popular,the use of the horse and buggy passed away. 汽车普及后，就不再使用马和马车了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Automobiles speed in an endless stream along the boulevard. 宽阔的林荫道上，汽车川流不息。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The market was bustling with life. 市场上生机勃勃。
- This district is getting more and more prosperous and bustling. 这一带越来越繁华了。
- This shop has a good assortment of goods to choose from.该店各色货物俱全，任君选择。
- She was wearing an odd assortment of clothes.她穿着奇装异服。
- Two china jugs held steaming gravy. 两个瓷罐子装着热气腾腾的肉卤。
- Jugs-Big wall lingo for Jumars or any other type of ascenders. 大岩壁术语，祝玛式上升器或其它种类的上升器。
- Jamie was snugly wrapped in a white woolen scarf. 杰米围着一条白色羊毛围巾舒适而暖和。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The farmyard was snugly sheltered with buildings on three sides. 这个农家院三面都有楼房，遮得很严实。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He is one of the world's renowned writers.他是世界上知名的作家之一。
- She is renowned for her advocacy of human rights.她以提倡人权而闻名。
- He gave me an extremely curt answer.他对我作了极为草率的答复。
- He rapped out a series of curt commands.他大声发出了一连串简短的命令。
- He hitches a lift with a long - distance truck. 他搭上了一辆长途卡车。
- One shoulder hitches upward in a shrug. 她肩膀绷紧，然后耸了耸。
- I chipped the enamel on my front tooth when I fell over.我跌倒时门牙的珐琅质碰碎了。
- He collected coloured enamel bowls from Yugoslavia.他藏有来自南斯拉夫的彩色搪瓷碗。
- Now that our debts are squared.Don't badger me with them any more.我们的债务两清了。从此以后不要再纠缠我了。
- If you badger him long enough,I'm sure he'll agree.只要你天天纠缠他，我相信他会同意。