请教og-38（讨论汇总里没有）

yoyobaobao

38.

Which of the following best completes the passage below?

 

Established companies concentrate on defending what they already have. Consequently, they tend not to be innovative themselves and tend to underestimate the effects of the innovations of others. The clearest example of this defensive strategy is the fact that___.

 

A. ballpoint pens and soft-tip markers have eliminated the traditional market for fountain pens, clearing the way for the marketing of fountain pens as luxury or prestige items

B. a highly successful automobile was introduced by the same company that had earlier introduced a model that had been a dismal failure

C. a once-successful manufacturer of slide rules reacted to the introduction of electronic calculators by trying to make better slide rules

D. one of the first models of modern accounting machines, designed for use in the banking industry, was purchased by a public library as well as by banks

E. the inventor of a commonly used anesthetic did not intend the product to be used by dentists, who currently account for almost the entire market for that drug.

 

38.

C is a clear example of a defensive, non-innovative strategy that underestimates the effects of others’ innovations: the slide-rule manufacturer acted as though any advantages offered by the newer and fundamentally different technology of a competing product, the electronic calculator, could be matched by improving the older, more familiar product. C is thus the best answer.

 

A is not an example of the defensive strategy; it presents a case in which innovative products displaces an older product from its traditional market but in so doing made possible a new marketing strategy for the older product. B is not clearly an example of the defensive strategy since it does no describe a response to the innovations of others. D and E are cases of new products finding unintended users, not of responses to innovations of others, so they are not examples of the defensive strategy described.

这道题明白题目问的是什么，但是不太明白选项，请指点，感谢！

LOUI1121

这题问的是哪个选项可以做为文中论述的例子.
文中说:
Established
companies concentrate on defending what they already have.
Consequently, they tend not to be innovative themselves and tend to
underestimate the effects of the innovations of others. The clearest
example of this defensive strategy is the fact that___.
比较牛的公司光关注保留自己已经有的. 所以, 他们忽视了其他公司的创新. 以下哪个是例子.
所以C正确.

P.S. 翻译的不好,别见怪!

yoyobaobao

谢谢GG，但是我不明白题目问的是

Established companies concentrate on defending what they already have. Consequently, they tend not to be innovative themselves and tend to underestimate the effects of the innovations of others. The clearest example of this defensive strategy is the fact that___.

也就是说，选项的例子当中应包含两部分意思（1）they tend not to be innovative themselves （2） tend to underestimate the effects of the innovations of others

但是，C. a once-successful manufacturer of slide rules reacted to the introduction of electronic calculators by trying to make better slide rules是怎么体现这两部分内容的呢？

我还是对C选项的句义不太明白，另外，对解释 non-innovative strategy that underestimates the effects of others’ innovations: the slide-rule manufacturer acted as though any advantages offered by the newer and fundamentally different technology of a competing product, the electronic calculator, could be matched by improving the older, more familiar product.这句话看不太懂，请大家再帮帮忙！感谢！

yoyobaobao

ding!

yoyobaobao

各位GGJJDDMM，请大家理我一理吧！呜呜呜...,三天了，没人回帖，呜呜呜...

yoyobaobao

拜托了！！！

gavenhan

c.一家曾经很成功的生产计算尺的公司在面对计算器的普遍使用所做出的应对策略是生产更好的计算尺。

non-innovative strategy that underestimates the effects of others’ innovations: the slide-rule manufacturer acted as though any advantages offered by the newer and fundamentally different technology of a competing product, the electronic calculator, could be matched by improving the older, more familiar product.

没有创新性的策略低估了其它公司的创新结果：在面对全新的，技术上完全改变的，有竞争力的产品（计算器）挑战时，计算尺的生产者仅仅是寄希望于生产出更好的

计算尺（没有创新的老产品）来应对。

胡乱得翻一下。

VivienZheng

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yoyobaobao 发表于 2007-2-6 05:33
谢谢GG，但是我不明白题目问的是Established companies concentrate on defending what they already have. ...

计算尺的厂家认为，制作出更好的尺子就能获得电子计算机所具有的优势，这样新尺子就能够和电子计算机抗衡！