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’。
Davidson’s article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Great Recession, but it is also because of the advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution, which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign workers.
戴维森的文章是最近几篇论述的一个例子，这些文章指出，我们如今之所以面临顽固的高失业率和中产阶级收入下降，主要原因是由于大萧条导致的需求大幅下降，但同时也是由于全球化和信息技术革命的进展，这两者正以前所未有的速度用机器或外国工人取代劳动力。
As Davidson notes, “In the 10 years ending in 2009, [U.S.] factories shed workers so fast that they erased almost all the gains of the previous 70 years; roughly one out of every three manufacturing jobs – about 6 million in total – disappeared.
戴维森指出，在2009年结束的10年里，美国工厂裁员速度之快，几乎抹去了过去70年的所有成果；约三分之一的制造业岗位，总计约600万，消失。
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。