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听力原文
听力原文:
The Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational company. The bulk of its operations is in the production and sale of cars and trucks. In 2009, it became the world’s largest maker of cars, based on sales and number of automobiles produced, for the very first time. It was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyota and a whole Japanese city was built on and named after Toyota. Other brands in the Toyota umbrella include Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino (maker of trucks). It also has a financial services arm and is a key player in both the robotics and biotechnology industries. Toyota’s Just-In-Time production methods and its management philosophy, called “The Toyota Way,” have been studied by business graduates and managers worldwide. It is currently heavily committed to producing green, environmentally-friendly cars.
丰田汽车公司是日本的一家跨国公司
。公司的主业务是生产和销售汽车和卡车 。2009年,以销售和汽车生产数量为基础,丰田首次成为了全球最大的汽车制造商 。1937年,丰田喜一郎创建了丰田,日本整个城市都是以丰田的名字命名的 。丰田旗下还有包括像雷克萨斯、大发以及日野(卡车制造商)等品牌 。丰田还涉足金融服务领域,并在机器人以及生物技术产业占据主要地位 。丰田的准时制生产方法以及“丰田模式”的管理哲学也被全球的商科研究生和经理所学习 。目前,丰田将大量精力投入到了生产绿色环保汽车上来 。译文属可可英语原创,未经允许,不得转载 。
文章解析
1.multinational company 跨国公司
例句:When once a chairman of a multinational company came to see me, to offer me a property in Bombay, he first asked: ‘Mother, how do you manage your budget?
有一次一名跨国公司的主席来见我,他把孟买的一块地产赠送给我,他先问道:‘妈妈,你是如何管理你的经费的?’
2.committed to 致力于
例句:I was committed to raising her without a sense of limits: I wanted her to believe neither that some behavior or toy or profession was not for her sex nor that it was mandatory for her sex.
我致力于要让她在成长过程中感觉不到性别的限制:我希望她相信,没有哪些行为、什么玩具或者哪种职业不是女孩应该干的,也没有什么是注定该由女孩子干的
。3.based on 以…为基础
例句:All of the work we do is based on science.
我们所做的一切都是在科学的基础上完成的
。4.management philosophy 管理哲学
例句:This is more important than having a management philosophy.
这比拥有一个管理哲学更为重要
。