【備戰(zhàn)2011年職稱英語考試】精選閱讀中英文語句(57)
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2010-09-16 18:07
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The Versatile Lead Pencil（萬能的鉛筆）
16. Monroe's first American-made lead pencils-about 30 of them-were sold to a Boston hardware dealer in July, 1812. But it was not until many years later that American pencils began to sell as well as European brands.
16、1812年7月，門羅的第一批大約30支鉛筆賣給了波士頓市的雜貨店中間商。但是直到很多年以后，美國(guó)制造的鉛筆才開始和歐洲品牌賣的一樣好。
17. Today the nation's 15-odd pencil manufactures produce about a billion and a half wooden pencils a year. This amounts to about nine apiece for each man, woman, and child in the country. At manufacturers wholesale prices this business amounted to $35 million in 1957—not including mechanical pencils. About nine wooden lead pencils are sold here for every one of all other varieties of writing tools.
17、今天，這個(gè)國(guó)家的15個(gè)鉛筆制造廠，每年生產(chǎn)出大約15億支木制鉛筆。這個(gè)數(shù)量差不多使這個(gè)國(guó)家里的每個(gè)人平均擁有9支鉛筆，包括男人、女人、和孩子。在1957年，按照商品生產(chǎn)商的批發(fā)價(jià)格計(jì)算，鉛筆銷售總額達(dá)到了三千五百萬美元，其中還不包括機(jī)械自動(dòng)鉛筆。差不多每一支其它種類的書寫工具售出，就有9支木制鉛筆被售出。
18. The modern 7-inch long pencil can draw a line 35 miles in length; it can write an average of 45,000 words, and it can take an average of 17 sharpening. For some strange reason, about 75 percent of all pencil sold for general use are finished in yellow. A carpenter's pencil is usually finished in bright red. The color makes the pencil easy to find in wood shavings.
18、一支7英寸長(zhǎng)的現(xiàn)代鉛筆可以畫出35英里長(zhǎng)的線，它平均可以寫出45000個(gè)單詞，并且平均能夠進(jìn)行17次的削尖。由于某些奇怪的原因，被賣出的鉛筆差不多百分之七十五是黃色的。而木匠用鉛筆則通常是明亮的紅色。這種顏色使得鉛筆很容易在木屑中被發(fā)現(xiàn)。
19. Judging by the ever-increasing demand for them, it appears that the lead pencil is here to stay. At least as long as business and industry, educational institutions and the U.S. Government continue. For they are its three largest consumers.
19、從對(duì)鉛筆需求不斷增長(zhǎng)的情況判斷，看來鉛筆還會(huì)繼續(xù)存在，至少只要工商業(yè)、教育機(jī)構(gòu)、美國(guó)政府繼續(xù)存在，對(duì)于鉛筆業(yè)來說它們是三個(gè)最大的客戶。