考研Across the country, factory owners are now grappling with a new challenge: Instead of having too many workers, they may end up with too few.

在全国范围内，工厂主们正面临着一个新的挑战：与其雇佣太多的工人，不如雇佣太少的工人。

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

他补充说，100多年来，Cracker Jacks一直在通过在零食中放一个小奖品来游戏化零食，而世纪之交的钢铁巨头（“，巨头) 据说查尔斯·施瓦布经常来到他的工厂，在工厂地板上写下上一班生产的钢材吨数，从而激励下一班工人击败上一班。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Automation isn't just affecting factory workers, either.

自动化也不仅仅影响工厂工人。

2012年12月阅读原文

考研The family’s increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren’s Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as "the young gentleman."

家庭日益贫困迫使狄更斯在12岁时辍学，在沃伦的涂黑仓库工作，这是一家鞋油厂，其他工人嘲笑他为“年轻绅士”

2017年考研阅读原文

考研For factory owners, it all adds up to stiff competition for workers—and upward pressure on wages.

对工厂主来说，这一切都加剧了对工人的激烈竞争和工资上涨压力。

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研But to win over these young workers, manufacturers have to clear another major hurdle: parents, who lived through the worst US economic downturn since the Great Depression, telling them to avoid the factory.

但为了赢得这些年轻工人，制造商必须清除另一个主要障碍：经历了大萧条以来最严重的美国经济衰退的父母告诉他们不要去工厂。

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级She borrowed the principle of efficiency on the factory floor and applied it to domestic tasks on the kitchen floor.

她借用了工厂车间的效率原则，并将其应用到厨房的家务活中。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级I've heard that at a factory in the area two pregnant women who were working with paint requested a transfer to a safer department, because they wanted to prevent damage to their unborn babies.

我听说在该地区的一家工厂里，两名从事油漆工作的孕妇要求调到一个更安全的部门，因为她们想防止对未出生的婴儿造成伤害。

2011年6月听力原文

六级Milkman says, "that these extracurricular jobs were an effort on the part of the workers to regain their dignity after suffering the degradation of repetitive assembly line work in the factory

送奶工说：“这些课外工作是工人们在经历了工厂重复的装配线工作的退化后，为恢复尊严而做出的努力

2013年6月阅读原文

四级Cracker Jacks has been "gamifying" its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-of-the-century steel magnate (巨头 Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of

他补充说，100多年来，Cracker Jacks一直在“游戏化”其快餐食品，在里面放一个小奖品，以及世纪之交的钢铁巨头(巨头 据说查尔斯·施瓦布经常来到他的工厂，写下吨的数量

2016年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

考研The humiliations of his father’s imprisonment and his labor in the blacking factory formed Dicken’s greatest wound and became his deepest secret.

父亲被囚禁的耻辱和他在制黑工厂的劳动形成了迪肯最大的创伤，成为他最深的秘密。

2017年考研阅读原文

高考The beginning of the media industry in Hilversum was marked by the establishment of a radio factory.

Hilversum传媒业的开端是一家无线电工厂的建立。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读C 题设

高考The last factory closed in the 1960s.

上一家工厂是在20世纪60年代关闭的。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

考研In 1924 America's National Research Council sent two engineers to supervise a series of experiments at a telephone parts factory called the Hawthorne Plant near Chicago.

1924年，美国国家研究委员会派出两名工程师在芝加哥附近一家名为霍桑工厂的电话零件厂监督一系列实验。

2010年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

六级Milkman says, "that these extracurricular jobs were an effort on the part of the workers to regain their dignity after suffering the degradation of repetitive assembly line work in the factory.

送奶工说：“这些课外工作是工人们在经历了工厂重复的装配线工作的退化后，为恢复尊严而做出的努力。

2013年6月阅读原文

高考Papa, as a son of a dirt-poor farmer, left school early and went to work in a factory, for education was for the rich then.

爸爸是一个穷苦农民的儿子，早早离开学校到工厂工作，因为当时的教育是为富人准备的。

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

六级Farmers are reporting steep losses and a new $20 million tomato-paste factory has halted production due to the shortages.

农民们报告说损失惨重，一家价值2000万美元的新番茄酱工厂因短缺而停产。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

高考The change to a media economy started in 1920, when the nederlandse seintoestellen fabriek nsf established a radio factory in hiversum.

向媒体经济的转变始于1920年，当时荷兰国家科学基金会在hiversum建立了一家无线电工厂。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级Possible locations for a new factory

新工厂的可能位置

2012年6月听力原文

六级But at a time when the American factory seems to be a shrinking presence, and when good manufacturing jobs have vanished, perhaps never to return, there is something deeply troubling about this dilution of American craftsmanship.

但是，当美国工厂的规模似乎在缩小，好的制造业岗位已经消失，也许再也不会回来时，这种对美国工艺的稀释令人深感不安。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级Today, factory output generates just 12% of G.D.P. and employs barely 9% of the nation's workers.

如今，工厂产出仅占GDP的12%，雇佣的工人仅占全国工人的9%。

2013年6月阅读原文

考研The humiliations of his father's imprisonment and his labor in the blacking factory formed Dickens'greatest wound and became his deepest secret.

他父亲被囚禁的耻辱和他在黑人工厂的劳动形成了狄更斯最大的创伤，并成为他最深的秘密。

2017年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级“I have often thought,” Ms Milkman says, “that these extracurricular jobs were an effort on the part of the workers to regain their dignity after suffering the degradation of repetitive assembly line work in the factory.

米尔克曼女士说：“我经常认为，这些课外工作是工人在经历了工厂重复流水线工作的退化后，为恢复尊严所做的努力。”。

2013年6月六级考试真题（二）

六级Since December, when the report came out, the mayor, neighborhood activists（活跃分子）and various parent-teacher associations have engaged in a fierce battle over its validity: over the guilt of the steel-casting factory on the western edge of town, over union jobs versus children’s health and over what, if anything, ought to be done.

自去年12月报告发布以来，市长、社区活动家(活跃分子）各种家长教师协会就其有效性展开了激烈的斗争：关于城市西部边缘的钢铁铸造厂的罪行，关于工会工作与儿童健康的关系，以及关于应该做什么（如果有的话）。

2009年12月英语六级真题

六级Automation isn’t just affecting factory workers, either.

自动化也不仅仅影响工厂工人。

2012年12月英语六级真题

四级” In a society in which factory, owners rode in private Pullmans while ten-year-olds slaved in the mines, strong anti-capitalist feeling ran high.

“在一个工厂里，老板们开着私人普尔曼车，而十岁的孩子们在矿井里干活的社会里，强烈的反资本主义情绪高涨。

1996年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级For a student like me who considers any class before noon to be uncivilized, getting to a factory by 6 o’clock each morning is torture.

对于像我这样认为中午前上课不文明的学生来说，每天早上6点前到达工厂是一种折磨。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题试卷（1）

四级After working 12-hour shifts in a factory, the other options have become only too clear.

在工厂里轮班工作12个小时后，其他选择变得非常明确。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题试卷（1）

四级Cracker Jacks has been “gamifying” its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-of- the-century steel magnate（巨头）Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

他补充道，100多年来，Cracker Jacks一直在通过在里面放一个小奖品来“游戏化”其零食，而世纪之交的钢铁巨头(巨头）据说查尔斯·施瓦布经常来到他的工厂，把上一班的钢铁产量写在工厂的地板上，从而激励下一班的工人打败上一班。

2016年12月大学英语四级真题（第3套）

四级Since they rarely carried a meal, the few metal lunch buckets on the market were mainly for tradesmen and factory workers.

由于他们很少带饭，市场上为数不多的金属午餐桶主要供商人和工厂工人使用。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第3套）

考研A firm which has three factories may find, for instance, from its figures, that one factory is losing money and a choice may lie between either a change of manager, a cut in production, an increase in production or closure of the factory.

例如，一家拥有三家工厂的公司可能会从其数据中发现，一家工厂正在亏损，可以在更换经理、减产、增产或关闭工厂之间做出选择。

1985年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研They have built robots that can recognize the error of a machine panel by a fraction of a millimeter in a controlled factory environment.

他们制造的机器人可以在受控的工厂环境中识别出几分之一毫米的机器面板误差。

2002年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题