It could be a key factor in determining where the company — or its competitors — will expand and where engineering talent might be in short supply.

汇率有可能是决定这家公司(或者其竞争者)在哪里拓展业务，以及哪里的工程人才处于短缺状态的关键因素。

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Germany’s talent for bespoke engineering and sleek cars fits well with the needs of fast-industrialising countries and their new middle classes.

德国在定制工程和流线型汽车制造上的天赋很好的适应了高速工业化国家及其中产阶级的需要。

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Soon, engineering talent was streaming out the doors again.

很快，工程人才开始再次外流。

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But with technical skills in relatively short supply, few industries face greater competition for talent than engineering and architecture.

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David Kennedy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who has taught at Stanford for more than forty years, credits the university with helping needy students and spawning talent in engineering and business, but he worries that many students uncritically incorporate the excesses of Silicon Valley, and that there are not nearly enough students devoted to the liberal arts and to the idea of pure learning.

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But in New York, engineering talent is scarce, and salaries are inflated by the big financial firms.

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