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Explain the italicized words in the following sentences.
1. there is a reservoir of instinctive fellow-feeling
2. Not everybody can draw on that reservoir.
3. there are in England some snarling shop stewards.
4. either on the board or the shop floor
5. but seem altogether out scale in England
Key:
1. a supply, especially an extra or reserve supply
2. obtain something from a reserve, store, etc.
3. person chosen by his fellow trade unionists in an industrial establishment to speak for them to the management and to watch over their interests
4. boards of managers; governing board of factory
5. proportion; relative dimensions
Translate the following into English.
1. 说到英国人的特性，因其与潜意识相关，又依赖于本能和直觉而存在，故不能割断与过去的联系：它根深蒂固，源远流长。
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2. 此外，尽管英国人并不反对变革，但对于为变革而变革的做法却深怀疑虑，也拒不接受那种认为我们现在必须无条件地欢迎机械化的进步的观点。
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3. 他们迟早要解决这种商业广告推销和他们残存的一些英国人特性之间的矛盾，下决心站到这一边或那一边，因为他们不能二者同享。
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Key:
1. What the wealthy employers would really like to do is to whip all the workers, whom they consider to be lazy and troublesome.
2. There are not many snarling shop stewards in the workshop, nor are there many cruel wealthy employers on the board of directors.
3. The contemporary world demands that everything be big or done on a big scale and the English do not like or trust bigness.
