自動化
After more than two decades of healthy annual advances,American nonfarm productivity growth declined and sometimes reversed after 1973.
在超過20年健康的年增長率之后，美國的非農業生產力自1973年后下滑，但偶有反彈。
Last year it grew nearly 3%,much of it due to blood-curdling corporate restructuring that was marked by increased automation,layoffs and lower wages.
去年增長幾乎達3%，但主要是因為企業采取更高度自動化、裁員、減薪等令人膽寒的整頓措施。
Customers balked,Wang abandoned the office-equipment business and filed fr bankruptcy last year.
顧客遲疑不前，王安放棄辦公設備部門，而在去年申請破產。
BM also tried and failed,
BM嘗試過也失敗，
as did oil giant Exxon,which ended up selling off its office-automation division in 1984 after investing more that $2 billion in it.
而石油巨人Exxon在投資超過20億美元的情況下，仍在1984年賣掉了它的辦公室自動化部門。
basket case
無用之物，無望之土
Africa has become the basket case of the planet,
非洲已成了地球上最沒有希望的土地，
he "Third World of the Third World,"a vast continent in free fall.
是“第三世界中的第三世界”，一個跌入深淵的遼闊大陸。
Sometimes called the world’s richest basket case
緬甸有時被稱為全世界最富有的無望之土，
because of its wealth of such natural resources as teak and minerals.
因為它蘊含豐富的自然資源如柚木與礦產。
Burma needs foreign aid and investment to modernize.
緬甸需要國際的援助與投資以期現代化。
cellular phone
移動電話
With AT&T,Craig McCaw moves one step closer to realizing his biggest dream:
有了AT&T的支援，Craig McCaw離他的大夢又更近了一步：
building the first nation-wide cellular telephone network.
建立第一套全國性的移動電話網絡。
Since the storm had knocked out telephone lines.
因為暴風吹垮了電話系統，
Allstate rushed to set up its own communication system,
Allstate趕忙自行建立通訊系統，
consisting of 80 shortwave radio units,850 pagers,173 cellular phones and a toll-free number.
包括80臺短波收音機、850個B.B.call、173個移動電話以及一根免費電話線。
By staking a position in the cellular phone market,MCI takes its battle against AT&T to new heights.
MCI在移動電話市場取得一席之地，將它與AT&T的戰爭拉到新高點。
Channel Tunnel
英吉利海峽海底隧道
Last week,when the news of the Chunnel breakthrough was announced,
上周當海峽隧道貫通消息公布時，
the Sun,Britain’s leading tabloid,cautioned its readers.
英國小報領袖《太陽報》警告讀者：
"It won’t be long before the garlic-breathed bastilles will be here in droves once the Channel Tunnel is open."
“一旦海峽隧道貫通，不久以后，滿嘴大蒜味的巴士底人就會大批涌來。”
Deep in the British psyche there is a reservation about ending the island-nation status.
在英國人內心深處，對結束島國式的生活還是有所保留。
Chapter 11 bankruptcy
破產
Just a week earlier the airline had veered away from a return trip to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection,from which it had emerged four years ago.
就在上周航空公司才剛剛避過再度落入破產保護的命運。四年前大陸航空才剛結束上一次的破產保護期。
Ames Department Stores(fiscal 1989 sales;$ 3.4 billion)declared bankruptcy under Chapter 11
Ames百貨公司(1989會計年度營業額;34億美元)宣告破產，
as the result of lingering complications from its 1988 acquistion of the Zayre chain.
因為它在1988年收購Zayre連鎖店后的問題一直無法解決。
derivatives
衍生性金融商品
Procter $ Gamble announced that it was taking a $102 million after-tax charge on its third-quarter earnings
寶潔公司宣布要自第三季的利潤中扣除已稅的1.02億美元，
