2025年12月六级第1套长篇阅读匹配原文翻译及答案

A) Like most chefs, Flippy is not afraid of hard work. Since last summer, that has meant 11am until 7pm shifts at Caliburger in Pasadena, California, as well as short assignments at Chick-N-Tots at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. These are long hours of repetitive work, where the boss demands absolute consistency. But you won't hear Flippy complain or say anything, in fact. For Flippy is a robot — a cloud-connected mechanical arm with 3D thermal scanners for eyes — that can flip burgers or fry 80 baskets of food an hour, monitor that food and even clean up afterwards.

像大多数厨师一样，Flippy 不惧怕辛勤工作。自去年夏天以来，这意味着每天在加州帕萨迪纳的 Caliburger 从早上11点工作到晚上7点，以及在洛杉矶道奇体育场的 Chick-N-Tots 承担短期任务。这些都是长时间的重复性工作，老板要求绝对的一致性。但你不会听到 Flippy 抱怨或说任何话，事实上。因为 Flippy 是一个机器人——一个云连接的机械臂，以用于视觉的 3D 热扫描仪作为“眼睛”——它可以翻转汉堡或每小时煎炸 80 篮食物，监控食物，甚至事后清理。

B) Flippy was created by Miso Robotics, part of the Cali Group, which is described by its CEO, John Miller, as: "A technology company that happens to sell cheeseburgers." Cali creates new machines that it road-tests in its Caliburger restaurants across the world, into which Flippy will be deployed this year. And Flippy is not alone. Also in California, Bear Robotics has developed a self-guiding robot, Penny, which has so far served 40,000 diners.

Flippy 由 Miso Robotics 创造，该公司是 Cali Group 的一部分。其首席执行官约翰·米勒将其描述为：“一家碰巧卖芝士汉堡的科技公司。”Cali 创造新机器，并在其全球的 Caliburger 餐厅进行实地测试，Flippy 将于今年部署到这些餐厅。而 Flippy 并非孤例。同样在加州，Bear Robotics 开发了一种自主引导机器人 Penny，迄今为止已为 40,000 名顾客提供服务。

C) Ten years ago, robot-chefs and waiters were pure science fiction. Today, they are a reality, and at prices that make them a plausible investment. From May, Penny will be shipped on a subscription basis that offers "an immediate return", says Bear Robotics' chief operating officer, Juan Higueros. Flippy will cost a reported $60,000 to $100,000. Fully automated burger restaurants managed with minimal human oversight — where customers order at screens, pay electronically and eat food cooked and delivered by robots — are now a possibility.

十年前，机器人厨师和服务员纯粹是科幻小说。如今，它们已成为现实，并且价格使其成为一项看似合理的投资。Bear Robotics 的首席运营官胡安·伊格罗表示，从五月起，Penny 将以提供“即时回报”的订阅模式发货。据报道，Flippy 的成本在 60,000 到 100,000 美元之间。在最少人工监督下运营的全自动化汉堡餐厅——顾客在屏幕上点餐、电子支付、食用由机器人烹饪和递送的食物——现在已成为可能。

D) The technology exists, it just needs knitting together cost-effectively and in a way diners buy into. In an industry keen to slash labour costs and increase profits, further automation seems inevitable. After an eight-month test at Kang Nam Tofu House in California, Bear Robotics credited Penny with driving a 28% increase in sales. Meanwhile, in US trials, the self-ordering screens that McDonald's is currently installing at its 1,300 UK restaurants yielded a reported 30% rise in order values.

技术是存在的，只需要以成本效益高且顾客接受的方式将其整合在一起。在一个渴望削减劳动力成本、增加利润的行业中，进一步的自动化似乎是不可避免的。在加州 Kang Nam Tofu House 进行了八个月的测试后，Bear Robotics 将销售额增长 28% 归功于 Penny。与此同时，在美国的试验中，麦当劳目前在其 1,300 家英国餐厅安装的自助点餐屏幕据报道带来了 30% 的订单价值提升。

E) Personalisation is seen as key to the appeal of this technology, alongside its ability to reliably push so-called "upsells" (meal deals, extras, larger drinks) to customers. Soon when you log into a restaurant app, it will be able to use your data and purchasing history to recommend dishes to you — factoring in everything from the weather to, if you are ordering at a screen that can read your face, your mood.

个性化被视为这项技术吸引力的关键，同时还有其可靠地向顾客推销所谓“追加销售”（套餐、额外项目、大杯饮料）的能力。很快，当你登录一个餐厅应用时，它将能够利用你的数据和购买历史为你推荐菜品——考虑到从天气到，如果你在一个能识别人脸的屏幕上点餐，你的情绪等所有因素。

F) "Right now people compromise on choice. We're presented with a one-size-fits-all menu. Ultimately, technology can allow us to make personal choices. You love spicy food and chicken? Here's the dish people like you mostly order," says Tom Weaver, CEO at the hospitality tech company Flyt. He talks enthusiastically about the Helsinki pop-up Take-In, a full-service restaurant where diners ordered dishes in from various delivery services. "For the first time in a few hundred years, digital is allowing us to create new versions of restaurants."

“现在人们在选择上做出妥协。我们面对的是千篇一律的菜单。最终，技术可以让我们做出个性化选择。你喜欢辛辣食物和鸡肉？这是像你这样的人最常点的菜，”餐饮科技公司 Flyt 的首席执行官汤姆·韦弗说。他热情地谈论了赫尔辛基的快闪餐厅 Take-In，这是一个全方位服务的餐厅，顾客在那里从各种送餐服务中点菜。“几百年来第一次，数字化让我们能够创造新形式的餐厅。”

G) If high-street fast food is automation-ready, its impact on high-end restaurants is likely to be subtler and slower. "It'll probably be a very long time before we see a five-star robot-chef," says Noel Sharkey, professor of AI and robotics at the University of Sheffield. "Apart from the AI creativity gap, great cooking involves a subtle understanding of ingredients and delicate cooking that would be enormously challenging for robots. Placing fragile foods on plates would be incredibly slow."

如果街头快餐已准备好迎接自动化，那么它对高端餐厅的影响可能更为微妙和缓慢。“我们可能还要等很久才能看到五星级的机器人厨师，”谢菲尔德大学人工智能和机器人学教授诺埃尔·夏基说。“除了人工智能创造力的差距，烹饪涉及对食材微妙的理解和精细的烹饪，这对机器人来说将是巨大的挑战。将易碎食物放到盘子上将会极其缓慢。”

H) Currently, robots have limited functionality. A human needs to load Penny with plates that diners lift off themselves. At the robot-powered US pizza-delivery company Zume, the more difficult jobs, such as topping pizzas, are still done by humans. But Moley, which will launch soon, offers an idea of the sophistication to come. Modelled on the movements of a MasterChef contest winner, Tim Anderson, its robotic arms are fixed over a stove and programmed to prepare dishes from raw ingredients. It is designed for domestic use, but a commercial version is planned that opens up the possibility of restaurant kitchens automating even highly technically challenging tasks.

目前，机器人的功能有限。需要人工将盘子装到 Penny 上，由用餐者自行取下。在机器人驱动的美国披萨外卖公司 Zume，更困难的工作，如给披萨加配料，仍然由人工完成。但即将推出的 Moley 提供了一个关于未来精密程度的构想。其机械臂模仿了《厨艺大师》比赛冠军蒂姆·安德森的动作，固定在炉灶上方，并被编程为从原始食材开始准备菜肴。它是为家庭使用设计的，但计划推出商业版本，这为餐厅厨房自动化甚至技术难度很高的任务开辟了可能性。

I) For now, the kitchen technology that QSR Automations supplies to Mitchells & Butlers' pubs or KFC is less glamorous. Rather than having a chef shouting out diners' orders, the QSR system automatically distributes those orders across screens. The kitchen screens then tell chefs when to start cooking each dish, so that your plate of fish, chips and peas comes together at the right time.

目前，QSR Automations 供应给 Mitchells & Butlers 旗下的酒吧或肯德基的厨房技术没那么吸引人。QSR 系统不是让厨师喊出顾客的订单，而是自动将这些订单分配到各个屏幕上。然后厨房屏幕会告诉厨师何时开始烹饪每道菜，这样你的鱼、薯条和豌豆就能在正确的时间一起上桌。

J) The restaurant industry is currently suffering a severe shortage of skilled chefs — a deficit of 11,000, according to the skills agency People 1st. "Automation systems designed to make the process more idiot-proof are trying to bridge that gap," says Stefan Chomka, the editor of Restaurant magazine.

目前，餐饮业正严重缺乏熟练厨师——根据技能机构 People 1st 的数据，缺口达 11,000 人。“旨在让流程更不容易出错的自动化系统，正试图弥补这一差距，”《餐厅》杂志编辑斯特凡·乔姆卡说。

K) In terms of simplifying or enhancing the customer experience, online restaurant booking has been the easily-won success of the internet age. Automated at-table ordering and payment is seen as the next landmark. Until then, early adopters, such as the Manchester bar owner Andy Smith, who uses the Ordoo app at his venue 33 Oldham Street, may well experience growing but "lower than expected" acceptance.

在简化或提升顾客体验方面，在线餐厅预订是互联网时代轻易取得的成功。自动化餐桌点餐和支付被视为下一个里程碑。在此之前，像曼彻斯特酒吧老板安迪·史密斯这样的早期采用者——他在自己的场所 33 Oldham Street 使用 Ordoo 应用——可能会经历增长但“低于预期”的接受度。

L) Embarrassing failures in restaurant tech frequently hit the headlines. The TGI Fridays drone that injured a Brooklyn Daily photographer; US burger chain Shake Shack having to retreat from plans for entirely cashless ordering sites. But, says Chomka, such technology could miss the mark if it only offers "solutions to problems that don't really exist". "Payments being automatic" could be useful, he adds. But, in an expensive restaurant, "how quick do you need dinner to be?"

餐饮科技领域的尴尬失败经常登上头条。TGI Fridays 的无人机伤到了《布鲁克林每日新闻》的摄影师；美国汉堡连锁店 Shake Shack 不得不放弃完全无现金点餐点的计划。但是，乔姆卡说，如果此类技术只提供“对并不存在的问题的解决方案”，它可能无法切中要害。“自动支付”可能是有用的，他补充道。但是，在昂贵的餐厅里，“你需要晚餐有多快？”

M) That attachment to the human art of hospitality will be heartening for staff who see automation as a threat to jobs. "Unite is concerned that without safeguards, any benefits will bypass workers in low-paying jobs, such as waiters," says the union's London regional officer, Dave Turnbull. "We're urging Members of Parliament to ensure automation does not just benefit a wealthy few like previous industrial revolutions."

对人性化待客艺术的这种依恋，对将自动化视为就业威胁的员工来说将是令人欣慰的。“联合工会担心，如果没有保障措施，任何好处都将绕过像服务员这样的低薪工作者，”该工会的伦敦地区官员戴夫·特恩布尔说。“我们敦促议员们确保自动化不仅仅像之前的工业革命那样让少数富人受益。”

N) The industry principle is that automation will allow it to redeploy staff more effectively. Jobs will change, if not immediately decrease in number. "Self-order screens mean more demand for people front-of-house. Last year, we recruited 1,000 new managers," says McDonald's COO, Jason Clark. Caliburger has a programme to retrain staff as robot engineers or "chef techs".

行业原则是，自动化将使其能够更有效地重新部署员工。工作岗位将会改变，即使数量不会立即减少。“自助点餐屏幕意味着对前台人员的需求增加。去年，我们招聘了 1,000 名新经理，”麦当劳首席运营官杰森·克拉克说。Caliburger 有一个将员工再培训为机器人工程师或“厨师技术员”的计划。

O) But ultimately the chance to reduce overheads by employing fewer people or at lower rates will be what attracts big brands to technology. Invariably, over the next 10 years, jobs will go in conventional bricks-built restaurants, not least because automation will boost their rapidly growing rival: delivery. Companies such as Domino and Just Eat have both experimented with robot and drone delivery, which is already legal in Reykjavik, Iceland. "Robot food deliveries are the future," says Noel Sharkey. "Small, 4mph ground robots are safe and will work 24 hours a day."

但最终，通过雇用更少的人或以更低工资雇用来降低管理费用的机会，将是吸引大品牌采用技术的因素。不可避免地，在未来 10 年，传统的实体餐厅将会失去工作岗位，尤其是因为自动化将推动其快速增长的竞争对手：外卖。Domino 和 Just Eat 等公司都试验过机器人和无人机送货，这在冰岛雷克雅维克已经是合法的。“机器人送餐是未来，”诺埃尔·夏基说。“小型、时速 4 英里的地面机器人是安全的，并且可以全天候工作。”

P) Combined with machine learning of anticipated order volumes and the minute-by-minute cooking data generated by systems such as QSR, that robot fleet could deliver almost instantly. "Restaurants will prepare food ahead of orders coming in," predicts Just Eat's director of engineering, Daniel Richardson. "I'll be able to say 'Let's have pizza' to my family, my intelligent assistant will hear and 10 minutes later the food will be at my door." No one is putting an exact date on it yet. But in the dining room and on your doorstep, the robots are coming.

结合对预期订单量的机器学习以及 QSR 等系统产生的逐分钟烹饪数据，这个机器人车队几乎可以即时送货。“餐厅将在订单到来之前准备好食物，”Just Eat 的工程总监丹尼尔·理查森预测。“我可以对家人说‘我们吃披萨吧’，我的智能助手会听到，10 分钟后食物就会送到我的门口。”目前还没有人确定具体的日期。但在餐厅和你家门口，机器人正在到来。