The shortened workweek would increase company profits because employees would feel more rested and alert, and as a result, they would make fewer costly errors in their work. (缩短的周工作日可以提高公司的利润,因为员工可以感觉到更多的休整并且机警了,结果就是他们工作上犯错率减少了。)
For the country as a whole, one of the primary benefits of offering this option to employees is that it would reduce unemployment rates. (对于整个国家来说,因为可以减少失业率,所以缩短周工作日是个好事。)
First, contributors to a communal online encyclopedia often lack academic credentials, thereby making their contributions partially informed at best and downright inaccurate in many cases. (首先,网上百科全书的贡献者通常缺少学术认证*,因此使得他们的贡献*多部分正确,或者许多情况下完全不正确。)
Third, the communal encyclopedias focus too frequently, and in too great a depth, on trivial and popular topics, which creates a false impression of what is important and what is not. (第三,网上百科全书太频繁、太深入地关注很琐碎、很流行的话题,因此给人们产生了一种不知道哪些重要哪些不重要的错误概念。)
First, American consumers are exposed to so much advertising that they would not value or even pay attention to the ecocertification label. Because so many mediocre products are labeled “new” or “improved”, American consumers do not place much trust in advertising claims in general.
(首先,美国顾客目前接触到太多的广告,因此他们不会再珍惜或注意到这个生态认证标识,因为有太多的中庸产品被贴上了“新的”或者“改善的”标识,美国顾客就不太信任广告所声称的内容。)
Second, ecocertified wood will be more expensive than uncertified wood because in order to earn ecocertification, a wood company must pay to have its business examined by a certification agency. This additional cost gets passed on to consumers-American consumers tend to be strongly motivated by price, and therefore they are likely to choose cheaper uncertified wood products. Accordingly, American wood companies will prefer to keep their prices low rather than obtain ecocertification.
(其次,生态认证的木头比非生态认证的木头更贵,因为为了获取这样一个认证,木材公司要付费给证书代理检验费用。这额外的开支就要转嫁到非常注重价格的顾客身上,因此他们会选择便宜的非认证的木材。因此,美国木材公司将更加趋向于保持他们的价格低廉,而不是获取证书。)