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Unit 1 Para.6 Early manufacturers merely assembled available components to supply finished cars. available components：可用的组件 早期的制造商只把可用的零部件组装起来供应成品车。 Manufactures typically required 20 percent advance cash deposits on orders, with full payment upon delivery; and the assembly process took well less than the thirty-to ninety-day credit period that parts makers allowed. 制造商通常需要预交百分之二十的现金存款，交货时付清; 而组装过程用不到零部件制造商要求的30至90天的信用期。 Para.7 The association of licensed automobile manufactures, which tended to emphasize higher-priced models that brought high unit profits, sued the Ford Motor Company and several other unlicensed independents, who were more committed to the volume production of low-priced cars and who made and sold cars without paying royalties to the association. 因此，增强高价模式，旨在获得高单位利润的汽车注册制造商协会起诉福特汽车公司和其他一些无牌“独立公司”，就是致力于廉价车的批量生产以及不对协会负责而出售汽车的公司。 Para.8 The $600, four-cylinder Ford Model N deserves credit as the first reliable, powerful, low-priced car. 4汽缸N型车售价仅600美元，堪称第一款值得信赖且功能强大的廉价车。 Para.8 Mass production techniques--……of most middle-class Americans 1913年至1914年在密歇根建立的福特高地公园改进了大规模生产技术，尤其是批量生产线的改进，使T型车的价格日益降低。至1927年，旅游车的价格降至290美元（相当于2002年的2998美元），使得实用的汽车开进了中产阶级的家门。 Plant n. 1.植物，草木 (opp. animal); 草本；〔商用语〕树秧，苗木。 2. 庄稼，作物，收获；(植物的)生育。 in plant 生长者，活着。 lose plant 枯死。 miss [fail in] plant 长不出；不发芽。 3. 设备，装置；(工)厂，车间；(农)场；(研究所、医院、大学等的)全部设备。 manufacturing plant 制造厂。 a water [hydraulic] power plant 水力发电厂。 an arms plant 兵工厂。 V. 1. 栽(树、花)，播(种)；移植(植物)；移民于(某处)，殖(民) 2. 安，放，装，竖，插；创立，建设，设置，设立，树立；布置(内线)。 3. 传播，散播(新思想等)，灌输 (in)。plant ideas in mind 把思想灌输到心中。 Ford Highland Park, Michigan福特高地公园（广场） 窗体顶端 窗体底端 This article is about the assembly plant in Highland Park, Michigan. For the assembly plant （装配厂）in the Highland Park area of Saint Paul, Minnesota, Highland Park Plant, Ford Motor Company U.S. National Register of Historic Places美国国家注册历史地点 U.S. National Historic Landmark美国国家历史地标 Highland Park Ford Plant Large building that is part of the Ford plant