1. Widespread access to information technologies, for example, promises to condense the time required to change from labor- intensive assembly work to industries that involve engineering, marketing, and design.
    例如，信息技术的广泛应用有望缩短从劳动密集型的组装工业转向涉及工程、营销、设计等产业所需的时间。

2. The teacher encourages the students to do more intensive readings.
    老师鼓励学生们多做些精读。

3. That would ease the pain and help the hospital transfer patients from the intensive (精细的) care area — an area that charges patients or their insurance company $1,600 a day — sooner.
    这将减少病人的痛苦，帮助医院尽早将病人从重病特别护理区转出去——该区向病人或其保险公司每日收取1,600美元。

4. The hospital was facing an expensive expansion to the building because of a continual shortage of beds in intensive care.
    由于重病特别护理区一直床位不足，所以医院面临着造价高昂的扩建问题，

5. They are kept up to scratch with intensive and regular training.
    他们定期接受强化训练来保持达标。

6. Nurses had a pleasant surprise: Because patients weren't so heavily drugged, they wake up soon after entering intensive care.
    护士也惊喜地发现：因为病人的用药不那么重，所以进入特护病房后他们很快就醒了。

7. Until recently, many hospitals would have resisted steps that moved patients out of intensive care and into a room that costs $800 a day.
    直到最近，许多医院还在一直拒绝采取行动，把病人从特护区移至日花费800美元的病房。