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## Day1How robots make humans indispensable
#####地道表达
*In recent months, **anthropologists** have been **rummaging** through the **grassroots** of America’s **workforce** jungle in search of an answer to one of the great questions of our time: what happens to human jobs when robots arrive?
**anthropology**- n.人类学- n.人类学家
Eg.Socialanthropologyis centrally concerned with the diversity of culture.
社会人类学主要关于文化多样性。
**rummage**- vt.检查；搜出；仔细搜查；翻找出- n.检查；翻找；查出的物件；零星杂物- vi.仔细搜查；翻找
Eg.he rummaged in his pocket for a handkerchief.
他在口袋里翻找手帕。
*the **grassroots** of America’s **workforce**
美国劳动力全体
**grassroots**n.基层；基层民众
Eg.agrassrootsmovement; agrassrootsconstituency.群众运动；基层选区
**workforce**- n.全体员工- (国家或行业等)劳动力,劳动大军,劳动人口
Eg.A quarter of the localworkforceis unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。
原文翻译：最近几个月，人类学家一直在考察整个美国劳动力群体，以寻找我们这个时代最重要问题之一的答案：如果机器人来临，人类就业会怎样？
*Manufacturing offers a particularly **stark** example of this.
**stark**- adj.僵硬的,光秃秃的,荒凉的-完全的,全然的
Eg.stark raving mad.彻底疯了
*here is, however, an **intriguing** twist.
**intriguing**adj.引起好奇心的;令人感兴趣的;有迷惑力的
*rather than looking at **top-down** statistics
Eg.a top-down view of power has limits.自上而下的权利观有局限性。
*machines are **wiping out** some human jobs but people are also working with robots in new roles.
**wipe out** 消灭
Eg.Scientists speculate that disnasors were wiped out by volcanic eruption.科学家推测火山爆发导致恐龙灭亡。
*ith such big and complex computing systems that it was constantly **drafting** more humans
**drafting**- n.制图；起草；拖拽- v.起草；挑选；脱去（draft的ing形式）
Eg.aA cohort of civil servants patiently draftingand redrafting legislation.一批公务员耐心地拟定并改拟法律。
*In addition, new digitised jobs may seem less attractive than the old roles since they are often structured as “**contingent** work”, with self-employed workers who provide services on demand.
另外，新的数字化工作似乎不如旧工作那样吸引人，因为它们通常被设置成“临时工作”，由自由职业者按需提供服务。
**contingent**adj.可能发生的, 可能的,有条件的
Eg.acontingentproposition.条件性命题
*because he — wrongly — likes to blame the loss of manufacturing jobs to competition from China or Mexico.
部分原因是他（错误地）喜欢将制造业就业损失归咎于来自中国或墨西哥的竞争。
**the loss of**...的损失
Eg.the loss of manufacturing jobs 制造业就业损失
*as companies will **scramble** to cut costs.
**scramble for**争夺
Eg.scramblefor power and wealth争权夺利
**Workforce training**劳动力培训
Eg.Workforce training needs to change to instil more digital skills.需要改革劳动力培训，让劳动者掌握更多数字技能。
*New types of social security, health and pension systems are necessary to **accommodate contingent workers.**
新型的社会保障、健康和养老体系是容纳临时工作者的必要举措。
**accommodate contingent workers.**容纳临时工作者
*Valley has not been particularly **vocal **on these questions
硅谷在这些问题上并不特别积极
**vocal **adj.口头的，有声的
be **vocal **on 对某事表态
Eg.US is not vocal on these questions.
*last week he summoned tech leaders to Trump Tower to “**reassure**” them about his plans.
最近，他召集科技界领袖到特朗普大厦(Trump Tower)，让他们对他的计划“放心”。
**reassure**vt.消除恐惧或疑惑，恢复信心
Eg.Ruth did her best toreassureher.露丝竭力安慰她。
其他表达：
**BLS **abbr.####（美）劳工统计局（Bureau of Labor Statistics）
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