时代周刊:亚洲世纪之始(6)

The combination of its vaulting¹ promise and tenuous² future captures well the larger state of play in the world of green jobs.

它的巨大承诺和脆弱的未来结合在一起，很好地抓住了绿色工作世界中更大的状态。

As the auto³ industry rapidly transforms—moving from the internal combustion⁴ engine that has defined road transportation for more than 100 years to electric vehicles—workers and manufacturing communities are waiting anxiously to see what the scramble⁵ to lower the nation's emissions⁶ will mean for them.

随着汽车工业的快速转型——从定义了100多年道路交通的内燃机转向电动汽车——工人和制造业团体都在焦急地等待着，想知道降低美国排放这一举措对他们来说意味着什么。

On the one hand, building electric vehicles in communities like the Mahoning Valley, the region where Lordstown is located, promises to create the jobs of the future, resilient to the wave of imminent⁷ changes that will come as the post-pandemic economy rebuilds and modernizes⁸.

一方面，在洛兹敦所在的马霍宁谷等社区造电动汽车有望为未来创造就业机会，应对随着疫情后经济重建和现代化到来的变化浪潮。

On the other, the picture of what an auto-manufacturing job in the new green economy looks like remains⁹ fuzzy.

另一方面，在新的绿色经济中，汽车制造业的前景依然模糊。

The growth of electric-vehicle manufacturing in the U.S. could drive a renaissance¹⁰ for workers, creating new paths for unionization, training opportunities and better salaries.

美国电动汽车制造业的增长可能会推动工人的复兴，为成立工会、提供培训机会和提高工资创造新的途径。

Or it could lead to lower wages, slashed¹¹ benefits and a smaller workforce—and that's just for the jobs that remain in the U.S.

或者，也可能导致工资下降、福利减少和劳动力减少——这还只是针对在美国保留下来的工作岗位。

The stakes rose dramatically on Aug. 5, when President Biden gathered executives and labor¹² officials on the South Lawn of the White House to announce new vehicle-efficiency standards and a goal of making 50% of new-car sales electric by 2030.

8月5日，当拜登总统召集企业高管和劳工官员在白宫南草坪宣布新的汽车能效标准以及到2030年使新车销售中50%为电动汽车的目标时，这一风险急剧上升。

"There's no turning back," said Biden, with U.S.-made electric trucks parked in the driveway behind him.

拜登说：“没有回头路了。”他身后的车道上正停着美国产的电动卡车。

"The question is whether we'll lead or fall behind in the race for the future.

“问题是我们在未来的竞赛中是领先还是落后。

It's whether we'll build these vehicles and the batteries that got them to where they are here in the United States, or if we're going to have to rely on other countries for those batteries;

问题是我们是否能够制造出和现在的美国同等水平的汽车和电池，不然我们将不得不依赖其他国家提供电池。

whether or not the job to build these vehicles and batteries are good-paying union jobs, jobs with benefits, jobs that are going to sustain continued growth of the middle class."

不管制造这些汽车和电池的工作是不是高薪的工会工作、有福利的工作，这些工作都将维持中产阶级的持续增长。”

1 vaulting   

n.（天花板或屋顶的）拱形结构

参考例句：

• The vaulting horse is a difficult piece of apparatus to master. 鞍马是很难掌握的器械。
• Sallie won the pole vaulting. 莎莉撑杆跳获胜。

2 tenuous   

adj.细薄的，稀薄的，空洞的

参考例句：

• He has a rather tenuous grasp of reality.他对现实认识很肤浅。
• The air ten miles above the earth is very tenuous.距离地面十公里的空气十分稀薄。

3 auto   

n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车

参考例句：

• Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
• The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。

4 combustion   

n.燃烧；氧化；骚动

参考例句：

• We might be tempted to think of combustion.我们也许会联想到氧化。
• The smoke formed by their combustion is negligible.由它燃烧所生成的烟是可忽略的。

5 scramble   

v.爬行，攀爬，杂乱蔓延，碎片，片段，废料

参考例句：

• He broke his leg in his scramble down the wall.他爬墙摔断了腿。
• It was a long scramble to the top of the hill.到山顶须要爬登一段长路。

6 emissions   

排放物( emission的名词复数 )； 散发物（尤指气体）

参考例句：

• Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
• Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。

7 imminent   

adj.即将发生的，临近的，逼近的

参考例句：

• The black clounds show that a storm is imminent.乌云预示暴风雨即将来临。
• The country is in imminent danger.国难当头。

8 modernizes   

现代化事物( modernize的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• It modernizes the game while lowering the learning curve for newer players. 它让游戏更为现代化，降低了对新手的入门要求。
• In time to come, as a society modernizes, people's rights and responsibilities should be balanced. 从发展的角度看，一个社会越是具有现代性，它的公民的权利和义务就越是平衡。

9 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

10 renaissance   

n.复活，复兴，文艺复兴

参考例句：

• The Renaissance was an epoch of unparalleled cultural achievement.文艺复兴是一个文化上取得空前成就的时代。
• The theme of the conference is renaissance Europe.大会的主题是文艺复兴时期的欧洲。

11 slashed   

v.挥砍( slash的过去式和过去分词 )；鞭打；割破；削减

参考例句：

• Someone had slashed the tyres on my car. 有人把我的汽车轮胎割破了。
• He slashed the bark off the tree with his knife. 他用刀把树皮从树上砍下。 来自《简明英汉词典》

12 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。