上个世纪90年代,《世界报》的管理人向该报的印刷厂引进了电脑,他们希望这样做可以提高效率降低成本。
WHEN the managers of Le Monde introduced computers to the paper's print works in the early 1990s, they hoped for greater efficiency and lower costs.
像海久电池厂这样大规模铅中毒事件,一般只有在持怀疑态度的家长们在医院做检查,然后警告邻居和同事们后,产生了令人震惊的结果后才得以曝光。
Mass poisonings like that at the Haijiu factory typically come to light only after suspicious parents seek hospital tests, then alert neighbors or co-workers to the alarming results.
这样看来,在亚当·斯密时代的扣针制造厂,每出现一个操作机器的劳工,就得有240到4 800名做扣针的劳工丢掉饭碗。
So already, alas, in Adam Smith's time, machinery had thrown from 240 to 4,800 pin-makers out of work for every one it kept.
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