2013 年英语（二）阅读 Text 1 精讲
第一段
①In an essay entitled “Making It in America,” the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, “a man and a dog. ②The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.”亚当·戴维森在《美国制造》一文中讲述了一个产棉区现代纺织厂自动化程度的笑话：如今，普通工厂只有两个雇员，一个人外加一条狗。人是负责喂狗的，狗则是为了让人不要靠近机器的。
①In an essayentitled “Making It in America,”, the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton countryabout just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, “a man and a dog.”亚当·戴维森在《美国制造》一文中讲述了一个产棉区现代纺织厂自动化程度的笑话：如今，普通工厂只有两个雇员，一个人外加一条狗。
in部分是状语
essay n. 文章
entitled部分是分词后置定语，修饰这篇文章，即：这篇文章的名字叫做《美国制造》，it没有明显的指代内容
entitle vt. ①给...命名（或题名）；②使有权；使有资格
句子主干：the author Adam Davidson relates a joke
relate vt. 把...联系起来；②叙述；讲述；讲（故事）
joke n. 笑话。
from部分是介词短语修饰joke，说这个笑话来自那里，cotton n. 棉花
这里的country可以指 “国家，地区，或者农村” 都行，文章作者并没有具体说是哪儿。
about部分也是介词短语修饰joke，即，这个笑话是关于什么的：about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated:
how后面是介词about的宾语从句，how much表示程度
textile n. 纺织业；纺织；纺织品
mill n. 工厂。
automate vt. 使自动化。
冒号后面是具体解释前面的内容：The average mill has only two employees today, “a man and a dog.”
employee n. 员工；雇员，即：一条狗和一个人。
②The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.”人是负责喂狗的，狗则是为了让人不要靠近机器的。
这是两句话，用and连接
① The man is there to feed the dog,
feed vt. 喂养
② the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.
keep sth/ sb away from：使...远离...。
machine n. 机器
总结：第一段是说，纺织业自动化程度高，只要一人一狗就可以了，就是不需要多余的人了。