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’。
The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.
这个人在那里是为了喂狗，而狗在那里则是为了阻止人靠近机器。
The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.
这个人在那里是为了喂狗，而狗在那里则是为了阻止人靠近机器。
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。