急求一篇英文市场调查报告,随便什么内容

2025-01-08 07:29:43
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回答1:

1. Political economy or economics is a study of mankind in
the ordinary business of life; it examines that part of
individual and social action which is most closely connected with
the attainment and with the use of the material requisites of
wellbeing.
Thus it is on the one side a study of wealth; and on the
other, and more important side, a part of the study of man. For
man's character has been moulded by his every-day work, and the
material resources which he thereby procures, more than by any
other influence unless it be that of his religious ideals; and
the two great forming agencies of the world's history have been
the religious and the economic. Here and there the ardour of the
military or the artistic spirit has been for a while predominant:
but religious and economic influences have nowhere been displaced
from the front rank even for a time; and they have nearly always
been more important than all others put together. Religious
motives are more intense than economic, but their direct action
seldom extends over so large a part of life. For the business by
which a person earns his livelihood generally fills his thoughts
during by far the greater part of those hours in which his mind
is at its best; during them his character is being formed by the
way in which he uses his faculties in his work, by the thoughts
and the feelings which it suggests, and by his relations to his
associates in work, his employers or his employees.
And very often the influence exerted on a person's character
by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than
that exerted by the way in which it is earned. It may make little
difference to the fulness of life of a family whether its yearly
income is £1000 or £5000; but it makes a very great difference
whether the income is £30 or £150: for with £150 the family has,
with £30 it has not, the material conditions of a complete life.
It is true that in religion, in the family affections and in
friendship, even the poor may find scope for many of those
faculties which are the source of the highest happiness. But the
conditions which surround extreme poverty, especially in densely
crowded places, tend to deaden the higher faculties. Those who
have been called the Residuum of our large towns have little
opportunity for friendship; they know nothing of the decencies
and the quiet, and very little even of the unity of family life;
and religion often fails to reach them. No doubt their physical,
mental, and moral ill-health is partly due to other causes than
poverty: but this is the chief cause.
And, in addition to the Residuum, there are vast numbers of
people both in town and country who are brought up with
insufficient food, clothing, and house-room; whose education is
broken off early in order that they may go to work for wages; who
thenceforth are engaged during long hours in exhausting toil with
imperfectly nourished bodies, and have therefore no chance of
developing their higher mental faculties. Their life is not
necessarily unhealthy or unhappy. Rejoicing in their affections
towards God and man, and perhaps even possessing some natural
refinement of feeling, they may lead lives that are far less
incomplete than those of many, who have more material wealth.
But, for all that, their poverty is a great and almost unmixed
evil to them. Even when they are well, their weariness often
amounts to pain, while their pleasures are few; and when sickness
comes, the suffering caused by poverty increases tenfold. And,
though a contented spirit may go far towards reconciling them to
these evils, there are others to which it ought not to reconcile
them. Overworked and undertaught, weary and careworn, without
quiet and without leisure, they have no chance of making the best
of their mental faculties.
Although then some of the evils which commonly go with
poverty are not its necessary consequences; yet, broadly
speaking, "the destruction of the poor is their poverty," and the
study of the causes of poverty is the study of the causes of the
degradation of a large part of mankind.
2. Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of
nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden
time. The dignity of man was proclaimed by the Christian
religion: it has been asserted with increasing vehemence during
the last hundred years: but, only through the spread of education
during quite recent times, are we beginning to feel the full
import of the phrase. Now at last we are setting ourselves
seriously to inquire whether it is necessary that there should be
any so-called "lower classes" at all: that is, whether there need
be large numbers of people doomed from their birth to hard work
in order to provide for others the requisites of a refined and
cultured life; while they themselves are prevented by their
poverty and toil from having any share or part in that life.
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be
extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady
progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
The steam-engine has relieved them of much exhausting and
degrading toil; wages have risen; education has been improved and
become more general; the railway and the printing-press have
enabled members of the same trade in different parts of the
country to communicate easily with one another, and to undertake
and carry out broad and far-seeing lines of policy; while the
growing demand for intelligent work has caused the artisan
classes to increase so rapidly that they now outnumber those
whose labour is entirely unskilled. A great part of the artisans
have ceased to belong to the "lower classes" in the sense in
which the term was originally used; and some of them already lead
a more refined and noble life than did the majority of the upper
classes even a century ago.
This progress has done more than anything else to give
practical interest to the question whether it is really
impossible that all should start in the world with a fair chance
of leading a cultured life, free from the pains of poverty and
the stagnating influences of excessive mechanical toil; and this
question is being pressed to the front by the growing earnestness
of the age. The question cannot be fully answered by economic
science. For the answer depends partly on the moral and political
capabilities of human nature, and on these matters the economist
has no special means of information: he must do as others do, and
guess as best he can. But the answer depends in a great measure
upon facts and inferences, which are within the province of
economics; and this it is which gives to economic studies their
chief and their highest interest.
3. It might have been expected that a science, which deals
with questions so vital for the wellbeing of mankind, would have
engaged the attention of many of the ablest thinkers of every
age, and be now well advanced towards maturity. But the fact is
that the number of scientific economists has always been small
relatively to the difficulty of the work to be done; so that the
science is still almost in its infancy. One cause of this is that
the bearing of economics on the higher wellbeing of man has been
overlooked. Indeed, a science which has wealth for its
subject-matter, is often repugnant at first sight to many
students; for those who do most to advance the boundaries of
knowledge, seldom care much about the possession of wealth for
its own sake.

回答2:

一小篇有关港口开发的市场调研需要翻译成中文,应该不是很难的。本人的水平非常有限,还希望哪位高手能帮助一下,多谢了!
1. Scope of work
The market study service that DR proposes to provide falls into 2 parts:
• Review of regional container port competition
• Review of competitive hinterland / inland transportation issues and costs
• Container volume projections / scenarios
Drewry will research and identify each competitor container port and terminal in the neighbouring region and assess their facilities and current capacity as well as any future expansion plans. Historical volumes and regional market shares will be identified as well as each competitor ports’ inland connectivity. Major clients and trade lane volumes will also be identified where possible.
Inland connectivity and costs are a major factor in determining the port’s market competitiveness and Drewry will identify and compare inland distances and costs to major inland cities / markets to those at regional competing ports. Thereafter, an assessment can be made as to the commercial viability of the new container terminal.
Container volume projections / scenarios will be assessed according to each of the above
competitive issues and in relation to historical GDP growth in China and future GDP growth
expectations. Shifts in regional market shares will be a key factor in determining potential future volumes. Consideration will also be given to the regional import and export manufacturing base and consumer demand factors. Base, high and low case volume projections / scenarios will be provided.
3. Deliverables
The deliverable for this market study would be a report in Microsoft Word format, delivered by email, under the following general headings:
a) Executive Summary and conclusions
b) Review of regional container port competition
- Key facilities at each regional competitor port
- Historical volumes and market shares
- Inland connectivity
- Major shipping line clients and trade lanes
- Competition terminal capacity review
- Pricing strategies of ports
c) Review on Inland Transportation competitive issues
- Cargo hinterland analysis
- Review of the ports inland distribution network – compare to competition
- Inland distances and modes of transport to major inland cities / markets
- Inland transport costs
d) Container volume projections / scenarios
- Analysis of key industries
- Review of historical regional container volume growth versus China’s GDP
- Future volume projections / scenarios with base, high and low cases.
The draft report would be delivered in English, Once finalised, a Chinese version of the final
report would be provided as well as an English version.