day 67robots and jobs
unit 10 · thinking machinesrobots and jobs
Discuss automation at work, saying what workers insist on with veiller à ce que again.
today’s words
- à la place de · instead of, in place of
- au détriment de · at the expense of
- chuter · to fall, to drop
- la fusion · merger; fusion, melting
- ruiner · to ruin
- pourvoir · to fill (a job); to provide
- relancer · to relaunch, to revive; to chase up
- consécutif · consecutive; (consécutif à) resulting from
- compenser · to make up for, to compensate
- l'économiste · economist
- l'engin · machine, vehicle, device
- minier · mining (adj.)
- menaçant · threatening, menacing
- l'assemblage · assembly, putting together
- instable · unstable
- massivement · massively, on a large scale
- manier · to handle, to use (a tool, a language)
- l'incidence · effect, impact
- brutalement · suddenly, sharply; brutally
- l'usure · wear (and tear); exhaustion
- l'instabilité · instability
- rebondir · to bounce (back); to pick up again
- polyvalent · versatile, all-round
- durement · hard, severely
- la cadence · rate, pace, rhythm
- occasionner · to cause, to bring about
- la reconversion · career change, retraining
- chevaucher · to ride; (se chevaucher) to overlap
- le levier · lever; means of action
- automatiser · to automate
- la dureté · hardness; harshness
sentences
- Dans cette usine, des robots automatisent l'assemblage des voitures. · In this factory, robots automate the assembly of the cars.
- Les ventes ont chuté brutalement après la fusion. · Sales dropped sharply after the merger.
- L'usine a cent postes à pourvoir, mais elle ne trouve personne. · The factory has a hundred jobs to fill, but it can't find anyone.
- Une machine fait ce travail à la place de trois ouvriers. · One machine does this work instead of three workers.
- Les cadences ne doivent pas augmenter au détriment de la santé. · The pace of work must not increase at the expense of health.