世界名人简介 第70期:拉丹·塔塔
时间：2019-02-19 作者：英语课 分类：世界名人简介
英语课
Ratan Tata is the chairman of the Tata Group, India's largest corporation. He is the latest in a long line of Tatas to head the family-owned company. Ratan has revolutionized the company by focusing on high-tech 1 products. He increased the international profile of the company by buying recognized brands. Tata is single and leads a modest lifestyle in his bachelor apartment.
拉丹·塔塔是印度最大公司塔塔集团总裁。拉丹是塔塔家族企业第一继承人。通过高科技产品对公司进行改革。并通过收购大品牌企业扬名国际。拉丹是一名单身汉，生活方式适度节制。
Tata was born in Bombay in 1937. He received a Bachelor’s degree in architecture from America’s Cornell University in 1962 and briefly 2 worked as an architect in California. He returned to India and joined the Tata Group. In 1971 he was appointed director of the radio and electronics division. Tata worked his way up to become chairman of Tata Industries in 1981.
1937年，塔塔出生于孟买。1962年，获得美国康奈尔大学建筑学学士学位，并在加州短暂任职建筑师。之后，他回到印度，加入塔塔集团。1971年，他被任命为广播和电子部门总裁。1981年，他通过自己的努力成为了塔塔工业主席。
Tata spent the 1980s transforming and modernizing 3 the company. He branched out into business consultancy and high technology enterprises. His success elevated him to overall chairman of the Tata group. He did away with the old styles of management and recruited an army of eager, technology-savvy managers. The Tata Group is now the biggest on the Indian Stock Market.
20世纪80年代，拉丹让塔塔走上了现代化发展。并开创了商务咨询和高科技部门。他的成功让他成为了塔塔集团董事长。他摒弃了老旧的管理模式，并聘用了许多充满激情的技术经理。目前，塔塔集团是印度证券市场的第一大企业。
Ratan Tata is now setting about making Tata an internationally recognized brand. Tata Motors is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and bought the luxury brands Jaguar 4 and Land Rover. He stunned 5 the world by creating the Tata Nano, a car selling for less than $2,500. In 2007, he was listed among the 25 most powerful people in world business by ‘Fortune’ magazine.
如今，拉丹·塔塔正在把塔塔集团建造成世界品牌。塔塔汽车在纽约证券所上市，并收购了奢侈品牌捷豹和路虎。塔塔轿车Nano让世界惊讶，它的售价不到2500美元。2007年，拉丹·塔塔进入《财富》杂志最具影响力25人榜单之中。
1.high-tech 高科技的
例句：Not all pay toilets are high-tech, like this one in India.
并不是所有的付费厕所都是高科技的，比如在印度。
2.bachelor degree 学士学位
例句：Later on, upon his completion of the Bachelor degree, he moved on to pursue his study for a Master’s degree in the same field of study and I was very lucky to be his supervisor 6.
后来，在他完成学士学位的学习后，他继续在同一领域开始攻读硕士学位，我有幸成为他的导师。
3.work as 做...工作
例句：She worked as a nurse when she was young.
年轻时她是一名护士。
4.branch out 扩充范围
例句：First Jack 7 collected coins;then he branched out and collected stamps.
杰克开头只集硬币，后来又有所发展，也集邮了。
adj.高科技的
- The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展，这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
- The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。
adv.简单地，简短地
- I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
- He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。
使现代化，使适应现代需要( modernize的现在分词 )； 现代化，使用现代方法
- Modernizing a business to increase its profitability and competitiveness is a complicated affair. 使企业现代化，从而达到增加利润，增强竞争力的目的，是一件复杂的事情。
- The young engineer had a large share in modernizing the factory. 这位年轻工程师在工厂现代化的过程中尽了很大的“力”。
n.美洲虎
- He was green with envy when he saw my new Jaguar car.看见我那辆美洲虎牌新车，他非常妒忌。
- Should you meet a jaguar in the jungle,just turn slowly,walk away.But slowly,never look back.你在丛林中若碰上美洲虎，就慢慢转身走开，可一定要慢，切莫回头看。
n.监督人，管理人，检查员，督学，主管，导师
- Between you and me I think that new supervisor is a twit.我们私下说，我认为新来的主管人是一个傻瓜。
- He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.他说我太轻浮不能成为一名好的管理员。
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