OG12-Passage24: In the two decades between 1990 and 1930

shl020

第一遍读时怎么都不能读懂文章最后作者的conclusion到底在讲什么 (就是从thus, a move north would be seen as...到最后) *o* 哪个大侠能帮忙解释一下这段话的意思呀，主语是a move, 谓语是comes into question的话，哪个"and the easy conclusion..."是啥成分？？ 脑子浆糊了……

In the two decades between 1910 and 1930, over ten percent to the Black population of the United States left the South, where the preponderance of the Black population had been located, and migrated to northern states, with the largest number moving, it is claimed,
between 1916 and 1918. It has been frequently assumed, but not proved, that the majority of the migrants in what has come to be called the Great Migration came from rural areas and were motivated by two concurrent factors: the collapse of the cotton industry following the boll weevil infestation, which began in 1898, and increased demand in the North for labor following the cessation of European immigration caused by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. This assumption has led to the conclusion that the migrants’ subsequent lack of economic mobility in the North is tied to rural background, a background that implies unfamiliarity with urban living and a lack of industrial skills.
But the question of who actually left the South has never been rigorously investigated. Although numerous investigations document an exodus from rural southern areas to southern cities prior to the Great Migration, no one has considered whether the same migrants then
moved on to northern cities. In 1910 over 600,000 black workers, or ten percent of the Black work force, reported themselves to be engaged in “manufacturing and mechanical pursuits,” the federal census category roughly encompassing the entire industrial sector. The Great Migration could easily have been made up entirely of this group and their families. It is perhaps surprising to argue that an employed population could be enticed to move, but an explanation lies in the labor conditions then prevalent in the South.
About thirty-five percent of the urban Black population in the South was engaged in skilled trades. Some were from the old artisan class of slavery-blacksmiths, masons, carpenters-which had had a monopoly of certain trades, but they were gradually being pushed out by competition, mechanization, and obsolescence. The remaining sixty-five percent, more recently urbanized, worked in newly developed industries---tobacco, lumber, coal and iron manufacture, and railroads. Wages in the South, however, were low, and Black workers were aware, through labor recruiters and the black press, that they could earn more even as unskilled workers in the North than they could as artisans in the South. After the boll weevil infestation, urban Black workers faced competition from the continuing influx of both Black and White rural workers, who were driven to undercut the wages formerly paid for industrial jobs. Thus, a move north would be seen as advantageous to a group that was already urbanized and steadily employed, and the easy conclusion tying their subsequent economic problems in the North to their rural background comes into question.

shl020

是不是“a move north"是"would be seen as"的主语，"the easy conclusion..."是"comes into question"的主语? "a move north"的说法好奇怪@@

leonnong

是不是“a move north"是"would be seen as"的主语，"the easy conclusion..."是"comes into question"的主语? "a move north"的说法好奇怪@@

-- by 会员 shl020 (2012/5/5 20:54:03)

嗯，你可以这么理解，and并列了两个独立的句子！
另外附上我对这句话的理解，希望对你有帮助
因此，这个向北的迁移将被视为对这群在城市生活且有稳定工作的人是有优势的，并且将这个轻易的将他们迁移至北方后出现的经济问题与他们农村的背景联系起来的推论推向质疑的风口浪尖

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leonnong 发表于 2012-5-14 22:53
是不是“a move north"是"would be seen as"的主语，"the easy conclusion..."是"comes into question" ...

多谢！终于理解这句话讲的是什么意思了！查了N多帖子，还是你翻译的最好！

caroline莲莲

This assumption has led to the conclusion that the migrants’ subsequent lack of economic mobility in the North is tied to rural background, a background that implies unfamiliarity with urban living and a lack of industrial skills.
请问这句话中的 the migrants’ subsequent lack of economic mobility in the North如何翻译？尤其不能理解mobility这个词，谢谢
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