大学英语精读听力第一册 unit6
[00:00.00]College English Intensive Reading Book 1
[00:10.42]Unit Six Text
[00:13.27]Sam set out to improve efficiency at the shirt factory
[00:18.13]but,as we find out later in this unit,
[00:21.21]his plans turned out not quite as he had expected.
[00:25.63]SAM ADAMS,INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER
[00:29.20]If you ask my mother how I happened to become an industrial engineer,
[00:34.95]she\'ll tell you that I have always been one.
[00:38.40]She means that I /have always wanted everything to be well organized and neat.
[00:44.46]When I was still in elementary school,
[00:44.53]I liked to keep my socks in the upper left-hand drawer of my bureau,
[00:49.26]my underwear in the upper right drawer,
[00:52.79]shirts in the middle drawer,
[00:54.93]and pants,neatly folded,in the bottom drawer.
[00:59.27]In fact,I was the efficiency expert for the whole family.
[01:04.83]I used to organize my father\'s tools,
[01:08.49]my mother\'s kitchen utensils,my sister\'s boyfriends.
[01:13.35]I needed to be efficient.
[01:16.27]I wanted to be well organized.
[01:19.12]For me,there was a place for everything
[01:22.28]and everything was always in its place.
[01:25.44]These qualities gave me a good foundation for a career in industrial engineering.
[01:32.23]Unfortunately,
[01:35.08]I was also a bit bossy and I wasn\'t a very good listener.
[01:39.15]You\'ll see what I mean when I tell you about the first project I ever did
[01:44.59]after I finished my bachelor\'s degree at the university.
[01:44.66]After graduation I returned home to my small town in Indiana.
[01:51.11]I didn\'t have a job yet.
[01:53.88]Mr.Hobbs,a friend of my father\'s,owned a small shirt factory in town.
[02:01.22]Within the past five years it had grown from twenty to eighty workers.
[02:02.45]Mr.Hobbs was worried that his plant was getting too big and inefficient,
[02:08.71]so he asked me to come in on a short-term basis as a consultant.
[02:14.17]I went to the plant and spent about a week looking around and making notes.
[02:19.71]I was really amazed at what I saw.
[02:23.21]Most curious of all,
[02:25.96]there was no quality control whatsoever.
[02:29.22]No one inspected the final product of the factory.
[02:33.56]As a result some of the shirts that were put in boxes for shipment
[02:38.78]were missing one or two buttons,
[02:41.34]the collar,even a sleeve sometimes!
[02:45.50]The working conditions were poor.
[02:48.94]The tables where the workers sat were very high and uncomfortable.
[02:54.48]Except for a half hour at lunchtime,
[02:57.83]there were no breaks in the day to relieve the boring work.
[03:02.19]There was no music.
[03:04.88]The walls of the workrooms were a dull gray color.
[03:09.08]I was amazed that the workers hadn\'t gone on strike.
[03:13.86]Furthermore,the work flow was irregular.
[03:18.33]There was one especially absent-minded young man
[03:22.64]in the assembly line who sewed on buttons.
[03:25.67]After a while I recognized him as "Big Jim,"
[03:30.24]who used to sit behind me in math class in high school.
[03:33.67]He was very slow
[03:35.86]and all the shirts were held up at his position.
[03:38.94]Workers beyond him in line on his shift had to wait with nothing to do:
[03:44.53]therefore,a great deal of time and efficiency were lost
[03:48.63]as Big Jim daydreamed while he worked.
[03:51.79]All week I wondered why he wasn\'t fired.
[03:55.76]After I made observations for a week,
[03:59.66]Mr.Hobbs asked me for an oral report of my findings.
[04:01.46]I covered my major points by telling him the following:
[04:05.74]"If you have a quality control inspection,
[04:08.93]you will greatly improve your finished product."
[04:11.96]"If the assembly line is redesigned,
[04:15.20]a smooth work flow can be achieved and time and energy can be saved."
[04:19.98]"If you decrease the height of the worktables,
[04:23.40]the machine operators will work more comfortably."
[04:26.87]"If the management provides pleasant background music and beautifies the dull setting
[04:32.93]the factory will be much more productive."
[04:35.83]"If the workers have a fifteen-minute coffee break in the morning and afternoon,
[04:41.89]they will be more efficient."
[04:44.25]"If excellent work results in frequent pay increases or promotions,
[04:49.63]the workers will have greater incentive to produce."
[04:53.07]Mr.Hobbs thanked me for this report
[04:56.89]and told me he would talk over my suggestions with his brother,
[05:00.75]the co-owner and manager of the factory.
[05:01.98]"We\'re interested in progress here," he said.
[05:05.56]"We want to keep up with the times."
[05:08.72]He also gave me a check for $100
[05:12.56]and a box of shirts with his compliments.
[05:16.08]New words
[05:35.08]efficiency
[05:36.40]n.效率
[05:37.71]industrial
[05:38.89]a.工业的
[05:40.07]neat
[05:41.49]a.整洁的
[05:42.91]elementary
[05:44.44]a.处等的,初级的
[05:45.97]sock
[05:47.34]n.短袜
[05:48.71]drawer
[05:50.54]n.抽屉
[05:52.37]bureau
[05:53.40]n.衣柜
[05:54.43]underwear
[05:56.05]n.内衣
[05:57.67]pants
[05:59.06]n.裤子
[06:00.44]expert
[06:01.86]n.专家
[06:03.29]kitchen
[06:04.58]n.厨房
[06:05.87]utensil
[06:07.40]n.用具,器皿
[06:08.93]quality
[06:10.45]质量
[06:11.96]foundation
[06:13.33]n.基础
[06:14.70]career
[06:15.58]n.职业;生涯
[06:16.45]engineering
[06:17.94]n.工程学;管理
[06:19.43]unfortunately
[06:20.80]ad.不幸的是;遗憾的是
[06:22.17]bossy
[06:23.36]a.爱指挥人的;专横的
[06:24.55]project
[06:26.24]n.项目方案
[06:27.92]bachelor
[06:29.31]n.学士
[06:30.69]graduation
[06:32.15]n.毕业
[06:33.62]graduate
[06:35.03]vi.毕业
[06:36.44]short-term
[06:38.02]a. 短期的
[06:39.60]basis
[06:41.07]n.基础;根据
[06:42.55]consultant
[06:44.07]n.顾问
[06:45.58]consult
[06:47.15]v.查阅
[06:48.72]amaze
[06:50.20]vt.使大为惊讶,使惊鄂
[06:51.69]curious
[06:53.17]a.奇怪的
[06:54.65]whatsoever
[06:56.46]a.任何的,丝毫的
[06:58.28]inspect
[06:59.74]vt.检查
[07:01.20]shipment
[07:02.55]n.装运,运送
[07:03.89]miss
[07:05.16]vt.想念
[07:06.43]button
[07:07.56]钮扣
[07:08.70]collar
[07:10.19]n.领子
[07:11.68]sleeve
[07:13.06]n.袖子
[07:14.45]relieve
[07:15.82]vt.减轻
[07:17.19]boring
[07:18.61]a.令人厌烦的
[07:20.04]bore
[07:21.32]vt.令人厌烦
[07:22.60]workroom
[07:24.27]n.工场（间）
[07:25.94]dull
[07:27.38]a.阴暗的
[07:28.81]flow
[07:30.24]n.流（动）
[07:31.66]work flow
[07:33.01]n.工作流程
[07:34.35]irregular
[07:36.08]a.不规则的,不稳定的
[07:37.80]regular
[07:39.24]a.规则的
[07:40.67]absent-minded
[07:42.24]a.心不在焉的
[07:43.81]absent
[07:45.51]a.不在场的
[07:47.20]inspection
[07:48.69]n.检查
[07:50.18]assembly
[07:51.57]n.组装;集会
[07:52.95]assemble
[07:54.52]v.集合，召集
[07:56.09]assembly line
[07:57.76]装配线
[07:59.43]shift
[08:00.80]n.班;轮班
[08:02.17]daydream
[08:03.78]v.做白日梦,空想
[08:05.38]fire
[08:07.16]vt.解雇
[08:08.94]observation
[08:08.99]n.观察
[08:09.05]observe
[08:10.63]vt.观察
[08:12.21]observer
[08:12.27]n.观察员
[08:12.32]oral
[08:13.81]a.口（头）的
[08:15.30]findings
[08:16.92]n.调查（或研究）的结果
[08:18.53]major
[08:18.86]a.较大的
[08:19.19]redesign
[08:21.03]vt.重新设计
[08:22.87]design
[08:24.54]vt.设计
[08:26.21]achieve
[08:27.64]vt.（经努力）得到;实现
[08:29.06]decrease
[08:30.38]vt.减少
[08:31.70]worktable
[08:33.28]n.工作台
[08:34.86]operator
[08:36.60]n.操作人员
[08:38.34]operate
[08:37.84]vt.手术，运转
[08:37.34]management
[08:38.84]n.资方;管理（部门）
[08:40.34]background
[08:42.06]n.背境
[08:43.79]beautify
[08:45.36]vt.美化,装饰
[08:46.92]setting
[08:48.20]n.环境
[08:49.48]productive
[08:50.92]a.多产的;富有成效的
[08:52.36]frequent
[08:53.86]a.频繁的
[08:55.36]promotion
[08:56.78]n.促进，提升
[08:58.21]promote
[08:59.59]vt.促进，发扬
[09:00.98]incentive
[09:02.47]n.刺激
[09:03.95]suggestion
[09:05.12]建议
[09:06.29]co-owner
[09:07.57]n.共同所有者
[09:08.85]manager
[09:10.38]n.经理
[09:11.91]compliments
[09:13.54]n.贺词问候
[09:15.18]Phrases & Expressions
[09:19.02]find out
[09:20.14]查明;发现
[09:21.26]turn out
[09:22.70]结果是
[09:24.14]quality control
[09:24.32]质量控制（管理）
[09:24.50]as a result
[09:26.22]作为结果,因此
[09:27.94]except for
[09:29.83]除了...外
[09:31.71]go on strike
[09:33.64]罢工
[09:35.57]hold up
[09:37.06]延迟,耽搁阻碍
[09:38.55]result in
[09:38.68]结果是;导致
[09:38.80]talk over
[09:40.49]商量;讨论
[09:42.17]keep up with
[09:43.99]跟上
[09:45.80]Proper Names
[09:49.17]Sam Adams
[09:49.46]萨姆.亚当斯
[09:49.75]Indiana
[09:51.11]印第安纳（美国州名）
[09:52.46]Hobbs
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[00:10.42]Unit Six Text
[00:13.27]Sam set out to improve efficiency at the shirt factory
[00:18.13]but,as we find out later in this unit,
[00:21.21]his plans turned out not quite as he had expected.
[00:25.63]SAM ADAMS,INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER
[00:29.20]If you ask my mother how I happened to become an industrial engineer,
[00:34.95]she\'ll tell you that I have always been one.
[00:38.40]She means that I /have always wanted everything to be well organized and neat.
[00:44.46]When I was still in elementary school,
[00:44.53]I liked to keep my socks in the upper left-hand drawer of my bureau,
[00:49.26]my underwear in the upper right drawer,
[00:52.79]shirts in the middle drawer,
[00:54.93]and pants,neatly folded,in the bottom drawer.
[00:59.27]In fact,I was the efficiency expert for the whole family.
[01:04.83]I used to organize my father\'s tools,
[01:08.49]my mother\'s kitchen utensils,my sister\'s boyfriends.
[01:13.35]I needed to be efficient.
[01:16.27]I wanted to be well organized.
[01:19.12]For me,there was a place for everything
[01:22.28]and everything was always in its place.
[01:25.44]These qualities gave me a good foundation for a career in industrial engineering.
[01:32.23]Unfortunately,
[01:35.08]I was also a bit bossy and I wasn\'t a very good listener.
[01:39.15]You\'ll see what I mean when I tell you about the first project I ever did
[01:44.59]after I finished my bachelor\'s degree at the university.
[01:44.66]After graduation I returned home to my small town in Indiana.
[01:51.11]I didn\'t have a job yet.
[01:53.88]Mr.Hobbs,a friend of my father\'s,owned a small shirt factory in town.
[02:01.22]Within the past five years it had grown from twenty to eighty workers.
[02:02.45]Mr.Hobbs was worried that his plant was getting too big and inefficient,
[02:08.71]so he asked me to come in on a short-term basis as a consultant.
[02:14.17]I went to the plant and spent about a week looking around and making notes.
[02:19.71]I was really amazed at what I saw.
[02:23.21]Most curious of all,
[02:25.96]there was no quality control whatsoever.
[02:29.22]No one inspected the final product of the factory.
[02:33.56]As a result some of the shirts that were put in boxes for shipment
[02:38.78]were missing one or two buttons,
[02:41.34]the collar,even a sleeve sometimes!
[02:45.50]The working conditions were poor.
[02:48.94]The tables where the workers sat were very high and uncomfortable.
[02:54.48]Except for a half hour at lunchtime,
[02:57.83]there were no breaks in the day to relieve the boring work.
[03:02.19]There was no music.
[03:04.88]The walls of the workrooms were a dull gray color.
[03:09.08]I was amazed that the workers hadn\'t gone on strike.
[03:13.86]Furthermore,the work flow was irregular.
[03:18.33]There was one especially absent-minded young man
[03:22.64]in the assembly line who sewed on buttons.
[03:25.67]After a while I recognized him as "Big Jim,"
[03:30.24]who used to sit behind me in math class in high school.
[03:33.67]He was very slow
[03:35.86]and all the shirts were held up at his position.
[03:38.94]Workers beyond him in line on his shift had to wait with nothing to do:
[03:44.53]therefore,a great deal of time and efficiency were lost
[03:48.63]as Big Jim daydreamed while he worked.
[03:51.79]All week I wondered why he wasn\'t fired.
[03:55.76]After I made observations for a week,
[03:59.66]Mr.Hobbs asked me for an oral report of my findings.
[04:01.46]I covered my major points by telling him the following:
[04:05.74]"If you have a quality control inspection,
[04:08.93]you will greatly improve your finished product."
[04:11.96]"If the assembly line is redesigned,
[04:15.20]a smooth work flow can be achieved and time and energy can be saved."
[04:19.98]"If you decrease the height of the worktables,
[04:23.40]the machine operators will work more comfortably."
[04:26.87]"If the management provides pleasant background music and beautifies the dull setting
[04:32.93]the factory will be much more productive."
[04:35.83]"If the workers have a fifteen-minute coffee break in the morning and afternoon,
[04:41.89]they will be more efficient."
[04:44.25]"If excellent work results in frequent pay increases or promotions,
[04:49.63]the workers will have greater incentive to produce."
[04:53.07]Mr.Hobbs thanked me for this report
[04:56.89]and told me he would talk over my suggestions with his brother,
[05:00.75]the co-owner and manager of the factory.
[05:01.98]"We\'re interested in progress here," he said.
[05:05.56]"We want to keep up with the times."
[05:08.72]He also gave me a check for $100
[05:12.56]and a box of shirts with his compliments.
[05:16.08]New words
[05:35.08]efficiency
[05:36.40]n.效率
[05:37.71]industrial
[05:38.89]a.工业的
[05:40.07]neat
[05:41.49]a.整洁的
[05:42.91]elementary
[05:44.44]a.处等的,初级的
[05:45.97]sock
[05:47.34]n.短袜
[05:48.71]drawer
[05:50.54]n.抽屉
[05:52.37]bureau
[05:53.40]n.衣柜
[05:54.43]underwear
[05:56.05]n.内衣
[05:57.67]pants
[05:59.06]n.裤子
[06:00.44]expert
[06:01.86]n.专家
[06:03.29]kitchen
[06:04.58]n.厨房
[06:05.87]utensil
[06:07.40]n.用具,器皿
[06:08.93]quality
[06:10.45]质量
[06:11.96]foundation
[06:13.33]n.基础
[06:14.70]career
[06:15.58]n.职业;生涯
[06:16.45]engineering
[06:17.94]n.工程学;管理
[06:19.43]unfortunately
[06:20.80]ad.不幸的是;遗憾的是
[06:22.17]bossy
[06:23.36]a.爱指挥人的;专横的
[06:24.55]project
[06:26.24]n.项目方案
[06:27.92]bachelor
[06:29.31]n.学士
[06:30.69]graduation
[06:32.15]n.毕业
[06:33.62]graduate
[06:35.03]vi.毕业
[06:36.44]short-term
[06:38.02]a. 短期的
[06:39.60]basis
[06:41.07]n.基础;根据
[06:42.55]consultant
[06:44.07]n.顾问
[06:45.58]consult
[06:47.15]v.查阅
[06:48.72]amaze
[06:50.20]vt.使大为惊讶,使惊鄂
[06:51.69]curious
[06:53.17]a.奇怪的
[06:54.65]whatsoever
[06:56.46]a.任何的,丝毫的
[06:58.28]inspect
[06:59.74]vt.检查
[07:01.20]shipment
[07:02.55]n.装运,运送
[07:03.89]miss
[07:05.16]vt.想念
[07:06.43]button
[07:07.56]钮扣
[07:08.70]collar
[07:10.19]n.领子
[07:11.68]sleeve
[07:13.06]n.袖子
[07:14.45]relieve
[07:15.82]vt.减轻
[07:17.19]boring
[07:18.61]a.令人厌烦的
[07:20.04]bore
[07:21.32]vt.令人厌烦
[07:22.60]workroom
[07:24.27]n.工场（间）
[07:25.94]dull
[07:27.38]a.阴暗的
[07:28.81]flow
[07:30.24]n.流（动）
[07:31.66]work flow
[07:33.01]n.工作流程
[07:34.35]irregular
[07:36.08]a.不规则的,不稳定的
[07:37.80]regular
[07:39.24]a.规则的
[07:40.67]absent-minded
[07:42.24]a.心不在焉的
[07:43.81]absent
[07:45.51]a.不在场的
[07:47.20]inspection
[07:48.69]n.检查
[07:50.18]assembly
[07:51.57]n.组装;集会
[07:52.95]assemble
[07:54.52]v.集合，召集
[07:56.09]assembly line
[07:57.76]装配线
[07:59.43]shift
[08:00.80]n.班;轮班
[08:02.17]daydream
[08:03.78]v.做白日梦,空想
[08:05.38]fire
[08:07.16]vt.解雇
[08:08.94]observation
[08:08.99]n.观察
[08:09.05]observe
[08:10.63]vt.观察
[08:12.21]observer
[08:12.27]n.观察员
[08:12.32]oral
[08:13.81]a.口（头）的
[08:15.30]findings
[08:16.92]n.调查（或研究）的结果
[08:18.53]major
[08:18.86]a.较大的
[08:19.19]redesign
[08:21.03]vt.重新设计
[08:22.87]design
[08:24.54]vt.设计
[08:26.21]achieve
[08:27.64]vt.（经努力）得到;实现
[08:29.06]decrease
[08:30.38]vt.减少
[08:31.70]worktable
[08:33.28]n.工作台
[08:34.86]operator
[08:36.60]n.操作人员
[08:38.34]operate
[08:37.84]vt.手术，运转
[08:37.34]management
[08:38.84]n.资方;管理（部门）
[08:40.34]background
[08:42.06]n.背境
[08:43.79]beautify
[08:45.36]vt.美化,装饰
[08:46.92]setting
[08:48.20]n.环境
[08:49.48]productive
[08:50.92]a.多产的;富有成效的
[08:52.36]frequent
[08:53.86]a.频繁的
[08:55.36]promotion
[08:56.78]n.促进，提升
[08:58.21]promote
[08:59.59]vt.促进，发扬
[09:00.98]incentive
[09:02.47]n.刺激
[09:03.95]suggestion
[09:05.12]建议
[09:06.29]co-owner
[09:07.57]n.共同所有者
[09:08.85]manager
[09:10.38]n.经理
[09:11.91]compliments
[09:13.54]n.贺词问候
[09:15.18]Phrases & Expressions
[09:19.02]find out
[09:20.14]查明;发现
[09:21.26]turn out
[09:22.70]结果是
[09:24.14]quality control
[09:24.32]质量控制（管理）
[09:24.50]as a result
[09:26.22]作为结果,因此
[09:27.94]except for
[09:29.83]除了...外
[09:31.71]go on strike
[09:33.64]罢工
[09:35.57]hold up
[09:37.06]延迟,耽搁阻碍
[09:38.55]result in
[09:38.68]结果是;导致
[09:38.80]talk over
[09:40.49]商量;讨论
[09:42.17]keep up with
[09:43.99]跟上
[09:45.80]Proper Names
[09:49.17]Sam Adams
[09:49.46]萨姆.亚当斯
[09:49.75]Indiana
[09:51.11]印第安纳（美国州名）
[09:52.46]Hobbs
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