2021年管理类联考英语练习（35）
来源：北京学苑教育
（适用于管理类联考：工商管理硕士MBA；会计硕士MPACC；公共管理硕士MPA；工程管理硕士MEM；审计硕士MAud；旅游管理硕士MTA；图书情报硕士MLIS备考使用）
Translation：
Powering the great ongoing changes of our time is the rise of human creativity as the defining feature of economic life. Creativity has come to be valued, because new technologies, new industries and new wealth flow from it. And as a result, our lives and society have begun to echo with creative ideas. It is our commitment to creativity in its varied dimensions that forms the underlying spirit of our age.
Creativity is essential to the way we live and work today, and in many senses always has been.The big advances in standard of living --not to mention the big competitive advantages in the marketplace--always have come from" better recipes, not just more cooking." One might argue that's not strictly true. One might point out, for instance, that during the long period from the early days on the Industrial Revolution to modern times, much of the growth in productivity and material wealth in the industrial nations came not just from creative inventions like the steam engine, but from the widespread application of "cooking in quantity" business methods like massive division of labor ,concentration of assets, vertical integration and economies of scale. But those methods themselves were creative developments.
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人类创造力的提升，作为经济生活所定义的特征，为我们这个时代正在发生的巨大变化，提
供了巨大的动力。因为新的技术，新的工业，新的财富都伴随着创造力产生，创造力逐渐受到重视。所以，我们的生活中和社会中，开始回响着创造性的思想。正是我们在各个方面对创造力的认同，形成了我们这个时代潜在的精神。
创造力对于我们今天的生活和工作是致关重要的，从许多意义上来说曾经也是。在不设计大
市场中大的竞争优势的情况下，生活水平的大幅度提高总是来自更好的食谱，而不是更多的烹饪。也许会有人提出这并不完全正确。有人也许会举例指出，从早期的工业革命到现代化时代这么长的时期内，在工业领域中，许多生产效率的进步和物质财富的增长并不仅仅来源于创造性的发明，如蒸气机，还来源于讲求量的商业方法的广泛应用，比如大规模的劳动力划分，资本集中，纵向联合和经济规模。但是这些方法本身就是创造性的发展。
