新概念英语第四册Lesson15

第 1 页精品文档---下载后可任意编辑新概念英语第四册 Lesson15~19 原文及翻译 ?新概念英语?是 1997 年由外语教学与争辩出版社和培生教育出版中国有限公司联合出版的一套英语教材。下面我就和大家共享新概念英语第四册 Lesson15~19原文及翻译，期望有了这些内容，可以为大家学习新概念英语供应关怀! 新概念英语第四册 Lesson15 原文及翻译 Secrecy in industry 工业中的隐秘 First listen and then answer the following question. 听录音，然后答复以下问题。 Why is secrecy particularly important in the chemical industries? Two factors weigh heavily against the effectiveness of scientific research in industry. One is the general atmosphere of secrecy in which it is carried out, the other the lack of freedom of the individual research worker. In so far as any inquiry is a secret one, it naturally limits all those engaged in carrying it out from effective contact with 第 2 页精品文档---下载后可任意编辑their fellow scientists either in other countries or in universities, or even, often enough, in other departments of the same firm. The degree of secrecy naturally varies considerably. Some of the bigger firms are engaged in researches which are of such general and fundamental nature that it is a positive advantage to them not to keep them secret. Yet a great many processes depending on such research are sought for with complete secrecy until the stage at which patents can be taken out. Even more processes are never patented at all but kept as secret processes. This applies particularly to chemical industries, where chance discoveries play a much larger part than they do in physical and mechanical industries. Sometimes the secrecy goes to such an extent that the whole nature of the research cannot be mentioned. Many firms, for instance, have great difficulty in obtain...