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UNIT 3 Globalization 全球一体化 【1】“Globalization”—lots of people seem to think it means that the world is turning into some consumer colony of American. Coke, CNN, McDonald’s, Levi’s, Nike—if they haven’t taken over the world yet, the feeling goes, they will soon. (Odd: Japan is the world’s second largest economy, and yet I’ve never heard of anyone who buys Sony or eats sushi believing that it’s part of some plot to turn the world into Japan.) “全球化”―― 很多人一想到这个词就觉着它代表着世界正在变成美国的消费殖民地。可口可乐、CNN广播、麦当劳、利维斯、耐克――如果它们还没有掌控这个世界，即使现在他们还没有掌控世界, 从感觉上来看也快了。（令人奇怪的是：日本是世界上第二大经济体，可我从没听说有谁买了索尼产品或是吃了寿司就相信这是密谋将世界日化的一部分。） 【2】But regardless of whether you’re buying or selling, in the past 20 years much of the world’s economy has become increasingly integrated and foreign direct investment has grown three times as fast as total domestic investment. From 1980 to 1995 the value of trade worldwide rose dramatically, with the total value of world exports estimated at U.S $5.1 trillion in 1995, up from U.S $2 trillion in 1980. 但无论是买方还是卖方，过去的二十年间世界经济的大部分已经日益融合，外国直接投资的增长速度是国内总投资的三倍。从1980年到1995年，全世界贸易额惊人的增涨，世界出口总额估计值从1980年的2万亿美元, 增长到1995年的5.1万亿美元. 【3】Yet the globalization phenomenon is more than the mere transfer of goods. It’s the advent of cheap and ubiquitous information technologies that is dissolving our sense of boundaries. More and more television channels and the Internet have contributed to what expert Daniel Yergin calls a “woven world.” 然而全球一体化的现象不仅仅是简单的货物运输。正是由于有了廉价并且无处不在的信息技术，消融了我们对国界的意识。越来越多的电视频道和互联网已经促成了专家Daniel Yergin所说的“交织的世界”。 【4】When we talk about “globality”, we’re trying to define a world in which culture meet and, rather than fight, they blend. Because when cultures receive outside influences, they ignore some and adopt others, and then almost immediately start to transform them. 当谈论“全球化”时，我们是在试图定义这样一个世界,在这样一个世界中当不同的文化相会，他们是相互融合而不是互相冲突。因为当文化接受(受到了)了外部影响，他们会忽略一部分而接受另外一部分，然后几乎是马上开始改变他们(它们)。 【5】“As things get more global,” commented Norman Klein, a communications professor in Los