1. 1去技能化(把工作改成不再需要手藝或判斷)

    To deskill a job is to change the work so that you no longer need much skill to do it — usually by bringing in machines, software, or a rigid step-by-step system. A craft that once took years to learn can be deskilled into following a screen or pushing a button.

    To deskill a job把一份工作deskill就是把它 is to change the work改變這份工作的內容 so that你不再需要 you no longer need much skill to do it花太多技能就能做,usually通常是透過 by bringing in machines, software, or a rigid step-by-step system引進機器、軟體,或一套死板的分步驟系統。A craft一項技藝 that once took years to learn曾經需要好幾年才能學會 can be deskilled into可以被deskill成 following a screen or pushing a button照著螢幕操作或按個按鈕。

    Unions, sociologists, and people who write about work use this word when they worry that know-how is being taken out of the job. It is not kitchen-table English.

    Unions, sociologists, and people who write about work工會、社會學家和寫工作議題的人 use this word會用這個詞 when當 they worry that他們擔心 know-how is being taken out of the job專業知識正從這份工作裡被抽走。It它 is not kitchen-table English不是日常聊天會用的英文。

    Though actually, the target is the work, not the worker’s brain: a person can still be highly skilled while their job has been deskilled. The opposite worry is not that someone forgot a hobby; it is that the paid work no longer asks for judgement.

    Though actually不過其實,the target is the work針對的是這份工作本身,not不是 the worker's brain工作者的腦袋:a person一個人 can still be highly skilled仍然可以非常有技術,while同時 their job has been deskilled他的工作卻已經被deskill了。The opposite worry相反方向的擔心 is not不是 that someone forgot a hobby某人忘了一項嗜好,it is而是 that the paid work no longer asks for judgement這份有薪工作不再需要判斷力。

core核心畫面

組成de- “remove / reverse” + skill.

同家族的字

  • skillthe know-how being taken out of the job
  • deskillingthe noun for this same change

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

deskillverb

  • 1

    To redesign (a job) so that less skill is required to carry it out, for example through the introduction of new technology.

    • The impact on workers is fairly obvious but I believe that managerial jobs have also been deskilled by the adoption of controlling systems and procedures.
    • “Word processors are wonderful to make us more productive, but employers tend to take this to an extreme,” she said. “Some secretaries are very pleased with automation, but it's the larger number whose jobs are deskilled, made more redundant.”
  • 2

    To change the role of (workers) so that they are no longer required or able to use the skills that they have acquired.

    • Tragic, too, is the gradual deskilling of teachers, loss of excitement about the profession, and loss of gifted teachers to other pursuits.
    • In this transition from an economy built on energy-guzzling heavy industry toward a 21st century society of energy-sipping high technology, millions of Americans and Europeans are being “deskilled.”

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