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Free trade is supposed to be a win-win situation. You sell me your televisions, I sell you my software, and we both prosper. In
Free trade is supposed to be a win-win situation. You sell me your televisions, I sell you my software, and we both prosper. In
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Free trade is supposed to be a win-win situation. You sell me your televisions, I sell you my software, and we both prosper. In practice, free-trade agreements are messier than that.【F1】
Since all industries crave (热望) foreign markets to expand into but fear foreign competitors breaking into their home market, they lobby their governments to tilt the rules in their favor.
Usually,this involves manipulating tariffs and quotas. But, of late, a troubling twist in the game has become more common, as countries use free-trade agreements to rewrite the laws of their trading partners.
Why does the U.S. insist on these rules?【F2】
Quite simply, American drug, software, and media companies are furious about the pirating of their products, and are eager to extend the monopolies that their patents and copyrights confer.
Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can prevent competition and can limit what economists call "increased innovation"—innovations that build, in some way, on others.
It also encourages companies to use patents as tools to keep competitors from entering new markets.【F3】
Finally, it limits consumers’ access to valuable new products: without patents, we wouldn’t have many new drugs, but patents also drive prices of new drugs too high for many people in developing countries.
The trick is to find the right balance, insuring that entrepreneurs and inventors get sufficient rewards while also maximizing the well-being of consumers.
History suggests that after a certain point tougher intellectual property rules yield diminishing returns. The U.S., in its negotiations, insists on a one-size-fits-all approach: stronger rules are better.【F4】
But accepting a diverse range of intellectual-property rules makes more sense, especially in light of the different economic challenges that developing and developed countries face.
Lerner’s study found that the benefits of stronger patent laws were reduced in less developed countries. And developing countries, being poorer, obviously have more to gain from shorter patent terms for foreign innovations, since that facilitates the spread of new technology and the diffusion of ideas.
【F5】
The great irony is that the U.S. economy in its early years was built in large part on a loose attitude toward intellectual-property rights and enforcement.
Free-trade agreements that export our own restrictive intellectual property laws may make the world safe for Pfizer, Microsoft, and Disney, but they don’t deserve the name free trade.
【F5】
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答案
极具讽刺意味的是,美国经济早期的发展在很大程度上正得益于其在知识产权和知识产权执法方面采取了宽松的态度。
解析
表语从句的翻译是本句表达中的难点,若按照直译“一个大的讽刺是……”显得很不自然,这里可以采取分译法,将The great irony is that单独译为一个小分句。表语从句的主干economy was builton a attitude如直接译为“经济建立在态度之上”,不符合中文的习惯,考生可以根据自己的理解意译成“经济发展得益于这样一个态度”,这里用到了增词法。
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