21世纪工程硕士研究生英语-综合教程(下册)Unit5课文翻译.pdfVIP

UNIT 5 2. Workers of the world, get out your crystal balls. Just as the last decades have brought immense changes to the workplace—the influx of women, the advent of computers, the decline of organized labor, the rise of the service sector—the decades ahead will bring changes just as dramatic. Trying to make refined predictions of what work will look like decades from now is an exercise in folly, economists say, since the biggest changes will probably come from technological innovations we can only dream about. “To try to predict technology, you really go out on a limb,” says David Bills, author of The New Modern Times, a book on the past and future of work. But what lies ahead is not completely unpredictable. Demographers can tell us much about what the work force will look like 10 or 15 years out. Charting other changes is a matter of extrapolating from existing trends while hoping not to be embarrassed. 全世界的劳动者们，拿出你们占卜用的水晶球来预测下未来。正如过去几十年来 在工作场所发生的诸如女性工作者的涌入，计算器的出现，公会的衰落，服务业的兴 起等巨大的变化一样，未来几十年也会发生引人注目的变化。经济学家们说，试图对 几十年后的工作做精确的预测是愚蠢的行为，因为最大的 变化可能源于我们只有在 梦中才能想象到的技术革新。“想预测技术，你真是太冒险了，” 《The New Modern Times》的作者David Bills 说，这本书是写过去和未来工作的。但是未来并不是完全 不可预测的。人口学家可以告诉我们很多关于10 或15 年后的劳动力构成状况。描绘 其他变化需要从目前的趋势做推测，同时希望不要让我们身处困境。 3. On the second floor of a Washington, D.C., office building, a group of 45 economists is hard at work on the government’s sketch of tomorrow’s workplace. Every other December, the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes its employment projections. The paperback guide, a standard accessory in high-school guidance offices, predicts which occupations will grow and shrink over the next decade. The hot growth areas: health care and computer-related work. Things look less rosy for bookkeepers, typists, copy-machine operator