留美老师带你每日说英文 第800期:自动贩卖机的出现
时间:2019-03-04 作者:英语课 分类:留美老师带你每日说英文
英语课
台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是:
There's a scarcity 1 of low-skilled labor 2. So, instead of paying a sales clerk to sit and collect your money when you buy a piece of gum, they just put it in a machine and automate 3 the whole thing.
将会出现低技能劳动力短缺的状况。所以当你去买口香糖,老板们不再是雇用店员坐在那收你的钱,而是干脆就放台机器在那,一切全面自动化。
自动贩卖机的出现
学习重点:
1.scarcity 缺乏
scarcity (n.) 缺乏
scarce (adj.) 缺乏的
2.labor/labour 劳动
labor/labour (n.) 劳动
work (n.) 工作
3.clerk 办事员
clerk (n.) 办事员
employee (n.) 受雇者
4.collect 收集
collect (v.) 收集
collection (n.) 收集
5.automate 自动化
automate (v.) 自动化
automatic (adj.) 自动的
n.缺乏,不足,萧条
- The scarcity of skilled workers is worrying the government.熟练工人的缺乏困扰着政府。
- The scarcity of fruit was caused by the drought.水果供不应求是由于干旱造成的。
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
- We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
- He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
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