21考研双语阅读《哈佛商业评论》精读版训练-物联网时代的机器人为...

Barbara Pompili, France's minister of ecological transition, said in a news conference Tuesday that bears, tigers, lions, elephants and other wild animals won't be allowed any more in travelling circuses “in the coming years.”

法国生态转型部部长芭芭拉·庞皮里在周二的新闻发布会上说，“未来几年”，马戏团将不再允许出现熊、老虎、狮子、大象和其他野生动物表演。

插入句作修饰成分，是对pompili的补充说明。

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导读

机器人已经进军零售业，从六英尺高的自由移动机器走向了沃尔玛的自动货架，扫描检查库存，万物互联的时代，机器人还能为零售业做些什么？

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双语阅读

At Lowe’s, the home improvement chain, a “LoweBot” in some stores can answer simple questions, such as where to find items, and can assist with inventory monitoring. These robotsfree upworkers from routine tasks, presumably giving humans more time for customer interaction — but that’s only the beginning.

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在家装连锁店洛维，一些商店里的“洛维机器人”可以回答一些简单的问题，比如在哪里可以找到商品，并且可以协助库存监控。这些机器人将工人从日常工作中解放出来，给了人们更多的时间与顾客互动——但这只是冰山一角。

The real benefit of retail robots is the opportunity to capture moregranular dataabout the products on the shelves and customer buying patterns, which can increase efficiency and accuracy in inventory management.

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零售机器人的真正好处是有机会捕捉到关于货架产品和客户购买模式之间更精细的数据，这可以提高库存管理的效率和准确性。

The key is using retail robots as data-collectors within an internet-of-things (IoT), which is best thought of as a complex network of connected devices, objects, and sensors gathering voluminous data that is analyzed in the cloud or with edge computing, which uses nearby servers to lowerlatency.

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关键是要在物联网中将零售机器人作为数据收集器，物联网被视为是一个将各种设备，物体和传感器连接在一起的复杂网络，它收集大量的数据，在云端或使用边缘计算（利用附近的服务器来降低延迟）进行分析。

With robots in stores, retailers already have the beginnings of a holistic IoT solution. As the robots move around the stores, they capture photos of every shelf andaisle, which are then digitized and converted intometricsand insights about out-of-stock merchandise and pricing.

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商店里有了机器人，零售商已经开始着手使用物联网全面解决方案。当机器人在商店里穿梭时，它们会捕捉每一个货架和过道的照片，然后将这些照片数字化，给出有关缺货商品和定价的指标和建议。

Such detailed data is incredibly valuable in retail, where understanding and anticipating consumer demand is essential. For example, Stitch Fix, which provides just-for-you clothing choices to shoppers at home,toutsits data science in multiple facets of its business model, from product recommendation to inventory management andfashiondesign.

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这些详细的数据对零售业来说非常有价值，因为在这个行业理解和预测消费者的需求至关重要。翻译划线句，在文末留言框内打卡，答案下期公布~

本文节选自：Harvard Business Review（哈佛商业评论）

发布时间：2020.10.01

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词汇积累

1.latency

英 /'letns/ 美 /'letns/

n. 潜伏；潜在因素

2.aisle

英 /al/ 美 /al/

n.通道，走道；侧廊

3.metric

英 /metrk/ 美 /metrk/

adj.公制的；米制的；公尺的

n.度量标准

4.tout

英 /tat/ 美 /tat/

vt.兜售、招徕、刺探赛马情报、赞扬、吹捧

vi.兜售；招徕顾客；拉选票

n.票贩子、黄牛

5.fashion

英 /fn/ 美 /fn/

n.时尚；时装；样式；方式；时髦人物

vt.使用；改变；做成…的形状

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词组搭配

1.free up 空出来；开放（市场、经济或体制）、释放

2.granular data 精细数据

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写作句总结

These robots free up workers from routine tasks, presumably giving


humans more time for customer interaction — but that’s only the beginning.

结构: … free up … from ….

让…从…解脱出来

例句: Papermaking free up us from bamboo slips.

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