第 15 页精品文档---下载后可任意编辑toefl 双语阅读材料：Overcapacity and undercapacity托福阅读力量的提升功夫在平常，想要提升语感与对英文的敏感度，我们除了日常托福阅读真题练习与总结，更需要尽可能多地进行英文材料或双语材料的精读泛读，下面的这篇双语阅读材料来自经济学人，多利用此类英文材料进行拓展阅读会极大助力我们的托福读写力量提升。 Overcapacity and undercapacity GlutologyThe third brief in our series on big economic ideas looks at Says law产能过剩与产能缺乏生产过剩的学问"重大经济思想'系列之三萨伊定律IN 1804 Jean-Baptiste Say enrolled in the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts in Paris to learn the principles of spinning cotton. The new student was 37 years old, points out his biographer, Evert Schoorl, with a pregnant wife, four children and a successful career in politics and letters trailing behind him. To resume his studies, he had turned down two lucrative offers from Frances most powerful man, Napoleon Bonaparte. The ruler would have paid him handsomely to write in support of his 第 16 页精品文档---下载后可任意编辑policies. But rather than "deliver orations in favour of the usurper', Say decided instead to build a cotton mill, spinning yarn not policy.让-巴蒂斯特萨伊(Jean-Baptiste Say)于 1804 年入读巴黎国立工艺学院(National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts) ， 学 习 棉 纺 原 理 。 传 记 作 家 埃 夫 特 斯 古 勒 (Evert Schoorl)指出，这名新生 37 岁，带着怀孕的妻子和四个孩子，此前他在政界和文坛已颇有建树。为连续自己的学业，萨伊两次拒绝了法国最有权势的人拿破仑波拿巴(Napoleon Bonaparte)发出的条件优厚的邀请。这位统治者愿以优渥的酬劳请萨伊撰文支持自己的政策。但萨伊没有"为篡权者发声'，而是确定建一家棉纺厂，纺纱线而不是编政策。Napoleon was right to value (and fear) Says pen. As a pamphleteer, editor, scholar and adviser, he was a passionate advocate for free speech, trade and markets...
