Quotas get action: they “open the way to equality and they break through the glass ceiling,” according to Reding, a result seen in France and other countries with legally binding provisions on placing women in top business positions.
配额制度推动了行动，”Reding表示，“它们为实现平等开辟了道路并突破了玻璃天花板，”这一结果在法国和其他具有法律约束力规定女性担任高层职位的国家已经显现。
The advance is driven in part by vehicle manufacturers, who are placing big bets on battery-powered electric vehicles.
这一进展部分得益于汽车制造商，他们正在大力押注于电池驱动的电动汽车。
Consequently—and paradoxically—laws introduced to protect the jobs of ordinary workers may be placing those jobs at risk.
因此——并且具有讽刺意味的是——为了保护普通工人的工作而制定的法律，可能会使这些工作面临风险。
If not placing jobs at risk, to the extent employment protection laws constrain business owners from dismissing under-performing managers, those laws act as a constraint on firm productivity and therefore on workers' wages.
即使这些法律没有直接危及工作岗位，只要就业保护法限制了企业主解雇表现不佳的管理人员，这些法律就会对企业生产力造成制约，从而也制约了工人的工资。
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。