1. What is the major cause of the labour-management strife?
    劳资冲突的主要原因是什么?

2. 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。

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

4. The redundant labour in factories is a big problem.
    工厂的过剩劳力是个大问题。

5. This I did by mere mallet and chisel, and by hard labour, till I had a very handsome boat.
    干这些活时，我只有槌子和凿子，劳动非常艰苦。最后，一艘漂亮的船造成了。

6. 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。

7. 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，

8. 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。

9. 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。

10. However, all my devices to get it into the water failed, though they cost me infinite labour.
    然而，使它下水的所有计划都失败了。尽管为此我付出了巨大的努力。