新东方强化班老师强烈要求背诵的2篇文章

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kkzxak47 发表于 2011-10-17 16:30
2001 Text 4
The world is going through the biggest wave of mergers and acquisitions ever witnessed.  ...

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天使要考研

1996年 Passage 3

In the last half of the nineteenth century “capital” and “labour” were enlarging
and perfecting their rival organizations on modern lines.
19世纪后半叶，“资方”和“劳方”按现代方式不断扩大并各自完善相互对立的组织。

Many an old firm was replaced by a limited liability company with a bureaucracy of salaried managers.
许多旧式企业被有限责任公司所取代，由领薪经理构成其管理机构。

The change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging a large professional element and prevented the decline in efficiency that so commonly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation after the energetic founders.
这种变革通过聘用大量专业人员来适应新时代的技术要求，并防止了效率的降低，而在过去这种低效率使得许多旧式家族企业在精力充沛的创业者之后的第二、三代手中破产倒闭。

It was moreover a step away from individual initiative, towards collectivism and municipal and state-owned business.
而且这也是公司摆脱个体创造力，向集体化和市营、国营迈出的一步。

The railway companies, though still private business managed for the benefit of shareholders, were very unlike old family business.
铁路公司，虽然仍是为股东谋利的私有企业，但还是与旧家族企业大不相同了。

At the same time the great municipalities went into business to supply lighting, trams and other services to the taxpayers.
与此同时，大城市的市政府也开始涉足实业界，为纳税人提供照明、电车及其他服务。

天使要考研

Such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as a class, an element in national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the landowners; and almost equally detached from the responsible management of business.
对资本与企业的如此大规模的非个人操纵大大地增加了持股人作为一个阶层的数量及其重要性。他们在国民生活中代表着不承担责任的财富，与土地及土地所有者责任相分离，几乎也同样与企业的经营责任相分离。（长难句②）

All through the nineteenth century, America, Africa, India, Australia and parts of Europe were being developed by British capital, and British shareholders were thus enriched by the world’s movement towards industrialization.
整个19世纪，美洲、非洲、印度、澳洲及欧洲的部分地区都是靠英国的资本发展起来，而英国股东则因世界性的工业化而大发其财。
Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large “comfortable” classes who had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders’ meeting to dictate their orders to the management.
像伯恩茅斯和伊斯特本这样的城市的兴起，原因在于给大批“享乐”阶层提供居住场所，这些人不工作却有丰厚的收入，除了领取红利，偶尔参加股东会议向管理人员发号施令外，他们与外界几乎没有任何联系。（长难句③）


On the other hand “shareholding” meant leisure and freedom which was used by many of the later Victorians for the highest purpose of a great civilization.
另一方面，“持股”就意味着悠闲和自由，维多利亚后期许多人视之为伟大文明的最高目标。

天使要考研

The “shareholders” as such had no knowledge of the lives, thoughts or needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares, and his influence on the relations of capital and labor was not good.
这种股东不了解他们所持股的公司里工人们的生活、思想和需求,他们对劳资关系也不会产生积极的影响。

The paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business now passing away.
领取报酬后代表公司经营的经理与工人以及工人需求的关系更加直接，但甚至他也不像正在被淘汰的旧式家族企业的家长制中的雇主那样熟悉了解工人的情况。(长难句④


Indeed the mere size of operations and the numbers of workmen involved rendered such personal relations impossible.
的确，单就公司的经营规模和雇佣的工人数量而言，就使得建立这种私人关系不再可能。

Fortunately, however, the increasing power and organization of the trade unions, at least in all skilled trades, enabled the workmen to meet on equal terms the managers of the companies who employed them.
然而，幸运的是，工会的势力和组织在日益壮大，至少在各个技术行业情况如此，这就使工人与雇用他们的公司经理们处于平等的地位。

The cruel discipline of the strike and lockout taught the two parties to respect each other’s strength and understand the value of fair negotiation.
罢工和封厂的严酷惩罚使双方学会了互相尊重对方的力量，理解公正谈判的含义。（佳句）