Section IV Transition (20 points)

　　Directions：In this section there is a passage in English．Translate the passage into Chinese and with your translation on the ANSWER SHEET．

　　Powering the great ongoing changes of our time is the rise of human creativity as the defining feature of economic life．Creativity has come to be valued，because new technologies，new industries and new wealth flow from it．And as a result，our lives and Society have begun to echo with creative ideas．It is our commitment to creativity in its varied dimensions that forms the underlying spirit of our age．

　　Creativity is essential to the way we live and work today，and in many senses always has Been. The big advances in standard of living--not to mention the big competitive advantages in the marketplace--always have come from“better recipes，not just more cooking．”One might argue that’s not strictly true．One might point out，for instance，that during the long period from the early days on the Industrial Revolution to modern times，much of the growth in productivity and material wealth in the industrial nations came not just from creative inventions like the steam engine，but from the widespread application of“cooking in quantity”business methods like massive division of labor，concentration of assets，vertical integration and economies of scale．But those methods themselves were creative developments．

　　推動當今社會巨大變化的動力是人類創造力的崛起。作為經濟生活的一個顯著特征，創造力已開始受到重視，因為各種新技術、新產業和新財富源源不斷地隨之而生。其結果是我們的生活和社會中充滿了創造性思想。正是我們在各個領域里各種各樣的發明創造構成了當今社會的精神基礎。

　　創造力對我們當今的生活和工作方式至關重要，而且從各種意義上來說，一向如此。生活水平的顯著提高-----更不用說市場經濟的強大競爭優勢，總是源于“更好地烹飪法，而不是更多的烹制品”。也許有人認為這種說法不一定嚴謹。比如他會指出，從最初的工業革命到現代社會這一漫長的時期內，工業化國家生產力的提高和物質財富的積累，很多都不是來自諸如蒸汽機之類的發明創造，而是來自“大量烹制”式的企業管理方法的廣泛運用，如大規模的勞動力分工、資產的集中、縱向整合及規模經濟等。但是其實這些方法本身就是創新。