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今天的句子:

The state scrapped the proposal, but it remains a sign of the times: As employers aim to trim costs and boost productivity, workers face increasing encouragement to purchase and use mobile devices, don wearables, and even accept electronic implants, all while being assured that the new tools are serving their best interests.

词汇突破：

1. scrapped the proposal： 否决提议

2. trim costs 控制成本

3. don （动词）穿，戴

4. wearables (名词) 可穿戴设备

5. purchase 购买

6. implant 植入

7. assure 确保

8.all while 与此同时

9. wage economy 薪水经济（靠工资生活的人群）

并列句一：

The state scrapped the proposal, 

州政府否定了这个提案

并列句二：

but it remains a sign of the times:

但这提案依然是一个时期的标志；

第三个分句：

As employers aim to trim costs and boost productivity, workers face increasing encouragement to purchase and use mobile devices, don wearables, and even accept electronic implants, all while being assured that the new tools are serving their best interests.

主干识别：

workers face increasing encouragement to purchase and use mobile devices and even accept electronic implants

工人们将越来越多的被鼓励去购买和使用移动设备，甚至鼓励接受电子植入设备。

其他成分：

As employers aim to trim costs and boost productivity

（状语从句）

随着雇主们为了控制成本和提高生产力，

all while being assured that the new tools are serving their best interests.

Ving分词短语状语（all while = at the same time）起链接作用。

独立成句：

being assured that the new tools are serving their best interests.

= workers are assured that the new tools are serving their best interests （作状语的ving 分词短语，其主语就是句子主语）

工人们也得到保证，这些新的设备一定是为了工人们的利益。

（提醒一下： being assured 等于过去分词短语 assured）

参考译文：

州政府否定了这个提案，但这提案依然是一个时期的标志：随着雇主们为了控制成本和提高生产力，工人们将越来越多的被鼓励去购买和使用移动设备，甚至鼓励接受电子植入设备。与此同时，工人们也得到保证，这些新的设备一定是为了工人们的利益。

后续：

现在问题就来了， 

1.Some see growing adoption of technology as invasive.

 (see sth as sth 认为…是…的)

有人认为越来越多的采用这些技术是侵略性的。

2. The growing adoption of technology raises questions

于是越来越多的采用这些技术就引起了人们的疑问；

3. what exactly constitutes voluntary behavior in a wage economy.

什么构成了薪水经济中的自愿行为。

这三个句子读的爽吧，不难吧！

123合并以后就成了下面这个句子：

The growing adoption of technology that some see as invasive raises questions of what exactly constitutes voluntary behavior in a wage economy.

所以读句子就是切分和调序！