六级The Home Depot approach to craftsmanship - simplify it, dumb it down, hire a contractor - is one signal that mastering tools and working with one's hands is receding in America as a hobby, as a valued skill, as a cultural influence that shaped thinking and behavior in vast sections of the country.

家得宝（Home Depot）的工艺方法——简化、简化、雇佣承包商——是一个信号，表明在美国，掌握工具和用手工作作为一种爱好、一种宝贵的技能、一种文化影响正在消退，这种影响塑造了美国大部分地区的思维和行为。

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六级Initially, rather than appointing a general contractor to run the project, the corporation decided to manage it themselves.

最初，该公司决定自行管理该项目，而不是任命总承包商来管理该项目。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级After revelations by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in 2013 that the government both cozied up to ( 讨 好 ) certain tech companies and hacked into others to gain access to private data on an enormous scale, tech giants began to recognize the United States government as a hostile actor.

2013年，前国家安全局承包商爱德华·斯诺登披露，政府都讨好（讨 好 ) 某些科技公司并大规模入侵其他公司以获取私人数据，科技巨头开始认识到美国政府是一个敌对行为者。

2017年12月英语六级考试真题（卷三）

四级However, if a contractor is working in your home, you don't need to tell them that there are cameras watching.

然而，如果承包商在你家工作，你不需要告诉他们有摄像头在监视。

2018年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套）

考研Several massive leakages of customer and employee data this year—from organizations as diverse as Time Warner, the American defense contractor Science Applications International Corp and even the University of California, Berkeley—have left managers hurriedly peering into their intricate IT systems and business processes in search of potential vulnerabilities.

今年，来自时代华纳（Time Warner）、美国国防承包商科学应用国际公司（Science Applications International Corp）甚至加州大学伯克利分校（University of California，Berkeley）等多个组织的几次大规模客户和员工数据泄露，让管理人员匆忙地窥探其复杂的IT系统和业务流程，寻找潜在的漏洞。

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