Before the plant closed this past week, the company had provided employees with face shields and masks and installed plexiglass barriers in certain areas to separate employees.
provide sb with sth 為某人提供某物
face shield 面罩
plexiglass 有機(jī)玻璃
But in reality, it may be difficult for any meat plant to accommodate social distancing and remain as profitable.
accommodate 響應(yīng)
Jobs with titles like "gut snatcher" require people to work closely, slicing open pigs and pulling out entrails.
gut 內(nèi)臟；腸子
snatcher 清理者
entrails 內(nèi)臟锦募；腸藕届；（物體的）內(nèi)部
"It is not going to be easy to get workers six feet apart," said Dr.William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University's medical school. "If you space people out, you reduce productivity."
infectious 傳染的母怜；傳染性的；易傳染的
productivity 生產(chǎn)力；生產(chǎn)率；生產(chǎn)能力
Officials in the meat industry have also argued that South Dakota's decision to not issue a stay-at-home order may be contributing to the outbreak, because it has left relatives and neighbors of plant employees free to mingle.
mingle 混合
South Dakota officials have said residents should exercise "personal responsibility" and practice social distancing.
resident 居民
exercise "personal responsibility" 履行個(gè)人責(zé)任
"That's a very, very high rate," Dr.Schaffner said of the infections at the Smithfield plant.
"But it's difficult to know how much of the transmission occurred in the workplace or in the community."
community 社區(qū)
Some meat companies have expressed reluctance to test workers, saying such targeted testing creates the false impression that meat plants are the main culprits for the spread of the virus.
reluctance to 不愿意
culprits 罪魁禍?zhǔn)?/p>
The more aggressively employees are tested, the more cases emerge, putting pressure on plants to shut down.
aggressively 積極地
emerge 浮現(xiàn)峡继；擺脫；暴露
"Everybody wants to test meatpacking employees, but nobody is testing the communities around them to show what's the baseline," said Steve Stouffer, the president of the fresh meats division at Tyson Foods.
meatpacking 肉類加工業(yè)
baseline 底線
division 部門
"And until we know the baselines, my question has always been: Are we the cause or are we just the victim of our surroundings?"
victim 受害人匈挖，犧牲品
