自动化
After more than two decades of healthy annual advances,American nonfarm productivity growth declined and sometimes reversed after 1973.
在超过20年健康的年增长率之后，美国的非农业生产力自1973年后下滑，但偶有反弹。
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.
去年增长几乎达3%，但主要是因为企业采取更高度自动化、裁员、减薪等令人胆寒的整顿措施。
Customers balked,Wang abandoned the office-equipment business and filed fr bankruptcy last year.
顾客迟疑不前，王安放弃办公设备部门，而在去年申请破产。
BM also tried and failed,
BM尝试过也失败，
as did oil giant Exxon,which ended up selling off its office-automation division in 1984 after investing more that $2 billion in it.
而石油巨人Exxon在投资超过20亿美元的情况下，仍在1984年卖掉了它的办公室自动化部门。
basket case
无用之物，无望之土
Africa has become the basket case of the planet,
非洲已成了地球上最没有希望的土地，
he "Third World of the Third World,"a vast continent in free fall.
是“第三世界中的第三世界”，一个跌入深渊的辽阔大陆。
Sometimes called the world’s richest basket case
缅甸有时被称为全世界最富有的无望之土，
because of its wealth of such natural resources as teak and minerals.
因为它蕴含丰富的自然资源如柚木与矿产。
Burma needs foreign aid and investment to modernize.
缅甸需要国际的援助与投资以期现代化。
cellular phone
移动电话
With AT&T,Craig McCaw moves one step closer to realizing his biggest dream:
有了AT&T的支援，Craig McCaw离他的大梦又更近了一步：
building the first nation-wide cellular telephone network.
建立第一套全国性的移动电话网络。
Since the storm had knocked out telephone lines.
因为暴风吹垮了电话系统，
Allstate rushed to set up its own communication system,
Allstate赶忙自行建立通讯系统，
consisting of 80 shortwave radio units,850 pagers,173 cellular phones and a toll-free number.
包括80台短波收音机、850个B.B.call、173个移动电话以及一根免费电话线。
By staking a position in the cellular phone market,MCI takes its battle against AT&T to new heights.
MCI在移动电话市场取得一席之地，将它与AT&T的战争拉到新高点。
Channel Tunnel
英吉利海峡海底隧道
Last week,when the news of the Chunnel breakthrough was announced,
上周当海峡隧道贯通消息公布时，
the Sun,Britain’s leading tabloid,cautioned its readers.
英国小报领袖《太阳报》警告读者：
"It won’t be long before the garlic-breathed bastilles will be here in droves once the Channel Tunnel is open."
“一旦海峡隧道贯通，不久以后，满嘴大蒜味的巴士底人就会大批涌来。”
Deep in the British psyche there is a reservation about ending the island-nation status.
在英国人内心深处，对结束岛国式的生活还是有所保留。
Chapter 11 bankruptcy
破产
Just a week earlier the airline had veered away from a return trip to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection,from which it had emerged four years ago.
就在上周航空公司才刚刚避过再度落入破产保护的命运。四年前大陆航空才刚结束上一次的破产保护期。
Ames Department Stores(fiscal 1989 sales;$ 3.4 billion)declared bankruptcy under Chapter 11
Ames百货公司(1989会计年度营业额;34亿美元)宣告破产，
as the result of lingering complications from its 1988 acquistion of the Zayre chain.
因为它在1988年收购Zayre连锁店后的问题一直无法解决。
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
宝洁公司宣布要自第三季的利润中扣除已税的1.02亿美元，
