[00:00.00]喜欢chazidian.com,就把chazidian.com复制到QQ个人资料中!Lesson 16 The modern city
[00:02.74]现代城市
[00:05.49]First listen and then answer the following question.
[00:08.07]听录音,然后回答以下问题.
[00:10.66]What is the author's main argument about the modern city?
[00:13.64]作者关于现代城市的主要论点是什么?
[00:16.61]In the organization of industrial life
[00:18.80]在工业生活的组织中,
[00:20.98]the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers
[00:24.52]工厂对工人的生理和精神状态的影响
[00:28.06]has been completely neglected.
[00:29.82]完全被忽视了.
[00:31.58]Modern industry is based on the conception
[00:34.10]现代工业的基本概念是:
[00:36.62]of the maximum production at lowest cost,
[00:38.95]以最低成本获取最多产品,
[00:41.27]in order that an individual or a group of individuals
[00:44.06]为的是让某个个人或一部分人
[00:46.84]may earn as much money as possible.
[00:49.11]尽可能多地赚钱.
[00:51.38]It has expanded without any idea of the true nature of the human beings
[00:54.66]现代工业发展起来了,却根本没想到操作机器的人的本质.
[00:57.94]who run the machines, and without giving any consideration
[01:00.97]工厂毫不顾及
[01:04.00]to the effects produced on the individuals and on their descendants