19年SAT写作素材积累：经典人物洛克菲勒.docxVIP

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 19年SAT写作素材积累：经典人物洛克菲勒  SAT考试技巧：19年SAT写作素材积累：经典人物洛克菲勒  SAT考试经典名师课程推荐  约翰·戴维森·洛克菲勒(John Davison Rockefeller)(1839年7月8日–1937年5月23日)，出生于美国纽约州里奇福德，美国慈善家、资本家，1870年创立标准石油，是十九世纪首个亿万富翁。  ral High School and at 16 he became a clerk in a commission house. Determined to work for himself, Rockefeller saved all the money he could and in 1850 went into business with a young Englishman, Maurice Clark. The company, Clark Rockefeller Produce and Commission, sold farm implements, fertilizers and household goods.  16岁时，他成为了一所委员会的职员。他决心为自己工作，他把所有能赚到的钱都存了起来。1850年，他和一个年轻的英国人莫里斯·克拉克合伙经商。公司，克拉克和洛克菲勒生产和委员会，出售农具，肥料和家用产品。  Rockefellers company was fairly successful but did not bring him the wealth he desired. In 1862 Rockefeller heard that Samuel Andrews had developed a better and cheaper way of refining crude petroleum. Rockefeller sold his original business and invested it in a new company he set up with Andrews called Standard Oil.  洛克菲勒的公司相当成功，但没有给他带来他想要的财富。1862年，洛克菲勒听说塞缪尔·安德鲁斯发明了一种更好、更便宜的原油提炼方法。洛克菲勒卖掉了他原来的生意，并将其投资于他与安德鲁斯建立的新公司——标准石油公司。  One of the business problems that Rockefeller encountered was the high cost of transporting his oil to his Cleveland refineries (40 cents a barrel) and the refined oil to New York ($2 a barrel).  洛克菲勒遇到的一个商业问题是，把他的石油运到克利夫兰精炼厂(每桶40美分)和精炼石油到纽约(每桶2美元)。  Rockefeller negotiated an exclusive deal with the railway company where he guaranteed sixty car-loads a day. In return the transport prices were reduced to 35 cents and $1.30. The cost of his oil was reduced and his sales increased dramatically.  洛克菲勒与铁路公司达成了一项独家协议，他保证每天有60辆汽车载货。作为回报，运输价格下降到35美分和1.30美元。他的石油消耗减少了，他的销售额急剧增加。  Within a year four of his thirty competitors were out of business. Eventually Standard Oil monopolized oil refining in Cleveland. Rockefeller now bought out Samuel Andrews for a million dollars and turned his attentions to controlling the oil industry throughout the United States. His c