2024考研英语：《经济学人》中英读译Day144

英语阅读能力依靠什么？必然是词汇的积累，但，仅仅是词汇的积累是不够了，更应该了解英语句式，不同句型所表达意义。如何培养自己的阅读语感呢？那么就跟着聚创考研网小编每天学一点英语，一起为考研筑起坚实的地基。阅读是需要积累的，就像我们需要经常和人沟通才会促进我们的表达能力一样~小伙伴跟着小编一起，每天坚持打卡，培养英语阅读能力及语感，了解文章一些经典词汇的用法。

经济学人:机器人应该使用这个技巧来说服人类(下)

Here’s Saunderson in the role of experimenter…and participant.So, what’s your initial guess?Um, I’ll go with row 6 column 1.Ok, and Pepper, what do you think?I actually think that we’re in row 7 and column 1.Now…in the other half of the tasks, Pepper runs the show.So Pepper was alone in the room with the participant.It was Pepper’s study, Pepper saying, you know, welcome to my study.Please take a seat at the chair in front of you and we’ll get started.My name is Pepper and I’d like you to join me.The tasks were the same…tests that challenge attention and memory.But this time, it was Pepper the Experimenter…

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桑德森扮演着实验者和被试的角色。那么，你最初的猜测是什么?我猜第6行第1列。好的，佩珀，你觉得怎么样?我认为我们在第7行和第1列。现在，在另一半任务中，佩珀负责主持实验。所以佩珀和被试单独在一个房间里。这是佩珀的研究，佩珀说，欢迎来到我的研究。请坐在你前面的椅子上，我们马上开始。我叫佩珀，我想请你和我一起。任务是一样的——挑战注意力和记忆力的测试。但这一次，佩珀是实验者…

Dr. Pepper, perhaps... offering the suggestion after the person made an initial guess.Personally I counted seven police stations.Now, what is the final guess you would like to lock in?And what Saunderson found was that Pepper had better luck at getting people to change their response when acting as a fellow test-taker, not as a leader.Now, that could be because participants didn’t view the robot as being a legitimate authority figure.Or because there’s something deeply creepy about a bossy robot…especially one that reminds you that your winnings will be docked if your answers are incorrect.It made people seemingly very uncomfortable with this idea of a robot not only in charge but using that authority in a slightly negative way.And some were more bothered than others.Everyone didn’t love the sort of dominant nature of the robot, but men in particular were very uncomfortable and seemingly had their sense of autonomy or status threatened by this cute little four foot-tall robot.

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佩珀博士,也许…… 在对方做出初步猜测后提出建议。就我个人而言，我数了有7个警察局。现在，你想要锁定的最终猜测是什么?桑德森发现，如果佩珀是作为一个测试对象，而不是作为一个测试者，那么他在让人们改变反应方面的运气会更好。现在，这可能是因为被试不认为机器人是一个合理的权威人物。或者是因为专横的机器人让人毛骨悚然...特别是它会提醒你，如果你的答案不正确，你的奖金将被扣掉。机器人不仅负责，而且以一种略微消极的方式使用这种权威，这似乎让人们对机器人的想法感到非常不舒服。有些人比其他人更烦恼。并不是每个人都喜欢这个机器人的支配性，男性尤其感到不舒服，似乎他们的自主感或地位受到了这个可爱的四英尺高的小机器人的威胁。

 

Does this mean there’s no future for robot nurses or instructors?This isn’t saying you can’t ever put a robot in charge.You just need to be very conscious and cautious with it.It shouldn’t be dominant. It shouldn’t be authoritative.It shouldn’t maybe even try to be an authority figure.And if all else fails, just make it more adorable.Saunderson recalls a study in which engineers had designed a library robot.It was just literally like a cart that drove around and put books back.But the book bot kept getting vandalized.The fix was literally to put on like two big five-dollar googly eyes.And suddenly, by anthropormorphizing it, people thought, “Oh look, it’s the little cute book bot. We shouldn’t hurt that thing.”So, yeah, there’s a lot of very subtle things you can do to give robots a slight hand up, for sure.Then those robots can give us a hand when we want help folding the laundry or doing the dishes or making the bed or...
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这是否意味着机器人护士或教师没有未来?这并不是说你不能让机器人做主。你只需要非常慎重和谨慎地对待它。它不应该占主导地位。它不应该是权威的。它甚至不应该试图成为一个权威人物。如果所有这些都失败了，那就让它变得更可爱吧。桑德森回忆起一项研究，在这项研究中，工程师们设计了一个图书馆机器人。它真的就像一辆车，开来开去，把书放回原处。但这个图书机器人一直被故意破坏。解决办法就是戴上一双5美元的大眼睛。突然，通过拟人化它，人们想，“看，这是一个可爱的小图书机器人。我们不应该伤害那东西。”所以，是的，你可以做很多非常微妙的事情来帮助机器人，这是肯定的。然后，当我们需要帮助叠衣服、洗碗、铺床时，这些机器人可以帮我们一把。