variation n. 變化
assembly line 流水生產線
overcome v. 克服
imagery n. 意象，比喻

There are a lot of American businesses in china. Why are these businesses so popular?
在中國遍布著許多美國的企業，這是為什么呢？

They’re good ideas. That’s what makes these places so successful.
他們有很多不錯的點子，這是使得他們成功的重要原因。

So they’re coming up with ideas no one else has had?
那么，他們提出來的想法都是別人沒有的嗎？

Or variations of one idea.Sure, take McDonald for example. They were the first to use the assembly line idea in the restaurant business. Now it’s used by most fast food restaurants.
或者是一個想法的其他方面。以麥當勞為例，它們是第一家運用生產線的餐飲企業。現在，許多快餐店紛紛效仿。

They made the entire industry more efficient.
它們使得的整個快餐行業變的更加高效了。

Why is it that American ideas tend to spread all over the world?
那為什么美國的想法在世界廣為流傳？

We’ve spoken about a melting pot before, that’s got a lot to do with it. These are American ideas but ideas that come form all over the place.
這和我們之前說過的美國是一個大熔爐有關。這些美國的理念其實來自全世界。

Do you know about Yahoo ? That was started by Jerry Yang from Taiwan.Sergey Mikhaylovich, one of the co-founders of Google was born in Russia and immigrated to America. In fact, according to Forbes 40% of fortune 500 companies were started by immigrants or the children of immigrants.
你聽說過雅虎嗎？它最初是由來自中國臺灣的楊致遠創辦的。而且，它的共同創始人米哈伊洛維奇出生于俄羅斯，然后移民去了美國。根據福布斯提供的信息，在500強中有40%的財富是屬于移民或者移民的子孫們的。

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