In an essay entitled “Making It in America,” the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, “a man and a dog.
在一篇题为《在美国立足》的文章中，作者亚当·戴维森讲述了一个来自棉花产区的笑话，说明现代纺织厂的自动化程度有多高：如今一家平均的纺织厂只有两名员工，‘一个人和一条狗’。
And yet, John Hagel, author of The Power of Pull and other books, says Brynjolfsson and McAfee miss the reason why these jobs are so vulnerable to technology in the first place.
然而，约翰·哈格尔——《拉力的力量》等书的作者——表示，布里尼奥尔森和麦卡菲忽略了这些工作之所以最初就如此容易受到技术冲击的原因。
To combat the trap of putting a premium on being busy, Cal Newport, author of Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, recommends building a habit of “deep work” – the ability to focus without distraction.
为了应对将忙碌视为重要价值的陷阱，深工作：在分心世界中专注成功的规则一书的作者卡尔·纽波特建议培养一种'深工作'的习惯——即在没有干扰的情况下专注的能力。
Tim Harford, author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, points to a study in the early 1980s that divided undergraduates into two groups: some were advised to set out monthly goals and study activities; others were told to plan activities and goals in much more detail, day by day.
《杂乱：无序的力量如何改变我们的生活》一书的作者蒂姆·哈福德引用了20世纪80年代初的一项研究，该研究将大学生分为两组：一组被建议制定每月目标和学习活动；另一组则被要求更详细地按天规划活动和目标。
Even before the invention of the electric light bulb, the author produced a remarkable work of speculative fiction that would foreshadow many ethical questions to be raised by technologies yet to come.
即使在电灯泡发明之前，这位作者也创作了一部非凡的科幻作品，预示了许多由尚未到来的技术引发的伦理问题。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。