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’。
About half of u.s. jobs are at high risk of being automated, according to a University of Oxford study, with the middle class disproportionately squeezed.
根据牛津大学的一项研究，大约一半的美国工作都有可能被自动化取代，而中产阶级则会受到不成比例的影响。
Even dairy farms, where robots do a small share of milking, have a long way to go before they’re automated.
即使是在乳制品农场，机器人只承担了一小部分挤奶工作，离完全自动化还有很长的路要走。
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。