2011年职称英语阅读中英语句(57)

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The Versatile Lead Pencil（万能的铅笔）

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，门罗的第一批大约30支铅笔卖给了波士顿市的杂货店中间商。但是直到很多年以后，美国制造的铅笔才开始和欧洲品牌卖的一样好。

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，这个国家的15个铅笔制造厂，每年生产出大约15亿支木制铅笔。这个数量差不多使这个国家里的每个人平均拥有9支铅笔，包括男人、女人、和孩子。在1957年，按照商品生产商的批发价格计算，铅笔销售总额达到了三千五百万美元，其中还不包括机械自动铅笔。差不多每一支其它种类的书写工具售出，就有9支木制铅笔被售出。

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英寸长的现代铅笔可以画出35英里长的线，它平均可以写出45000个单词，并且平均能够进行17次的削尖。由于某些奇怪的原因，被卖出的铅笔差不多百分之七十五是黄色的。而木匠用铅笔则通常是明亮的红色。这种颜色使得铅笔很容易在木屑中被发现。

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、从对铅笔需求不断增长的情况判断，看来铅笔还会继续存在，至少只要工商业、教育机构、美国政府继续存在，对于铅笔业来说它们是三个最大的客户。