莫纳什大学经济学副教授特雷西补充说，multinational corporations，跨国公司的发展也是经济全球化的因素之一。
First of all, by multinational enterprises I mean those firms that produce and market their products in two or more countries. Now those sort of companies dominate in the more capital intensive industries such as automobiles, consumer electronics, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and so on.
I see multinationals as one of the main agents through which globalisation takes place. They certainly play a major role in the movement of capital world-wide. We see that foreign direct investment has been growing roughly three times as fast as total investment.
Having said that, few firms are really truly global. Most firms still remain firmly rooted in their domestic economies, although the number of those truly global firms is certainly increasing.
特雷西副教授的谈话中出现了这样一些词汇：
1 multinational enterprises 跨国公司，多国企业
2 dominate 支配，控制
3 capital intensive industries 资本密集产业
4 agent 中介，媒介
5 movement of capital 资本流动
下面我们分段听一遍特雷西副教授的谈话和中文翻译：(英文略)
跨国公司指的是在两个或两个以上国家生产和销售它们产品的公司。现在这类公司在资本密集产业中占了统治地位，如汽车、民用电子、化工和制药行业等等。我认为跨国公司是形成全球化进程的主要中介之一。它们在资本全球流动方面扮演着重要角色。我们看到外国直接投资的增长速度大约是总投资额增长速度的三倍。不过，尽管真正全球性公司的数目在不断增加，并没有多少公司是真正的全球性跨国公司。大多数的公司还都深深扎根于自己国家的经济中。
我们现在把特雷西副教授的这段谈话再听一遍。(略)
在结束这一讲之前我们再复习一遍遇到的一些词汇：
1 economies of scale 规模经济
2 homogeneity 同种，同一
3 cater to the need of 迎合……的需要
4 barrier 障碍
5 trade liberalisation 贸易自由化
6 multinational enterprises 跨国公司，多国企业
7 dominate 支配，控制
8 capital intensive industries 资本密集产业
9 agent 中介，动力10 movement of capital 资本流动
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