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2021年1月7日发(作者：耿九畴)
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No one knows for sure when advertising 没有人确信地知道广告何时开始的。
first started.
It is possible that it grew out of the discovery 新出来的发现，即一些人做了一定类型的工
that some people did certain kinds of work 作并且比起其他人做它们要来的好是很有
better than others did them. 可能的。
That led to the concept of specialization, 那就关于专业性的概念，它意味着人们将变
which means that people would specialize, or 得专业，集中做一件特殊具体的工作。
focus, on doing one specific job.
Let’s take a man we’ll call r, 拿一个我们叫他为费得先生的男人举例。
for example.
He did everything connected with farming.
harvested and sold his crops.
the farm.
他所做的一切事都关于务农。
掉他的庄稼。
作。
He planted seeds, tended the fields, and 他种植种子，照料田地，之后丰收，再是卖
At the same time, he did many other jobs on 与此同时，他在农场里还干着许多其他的工
However, he didn’t make the bricks for his 然而，他没有用砖头来砌他的家，碾磨小麦
house, grind the wheat for his flour, or cut his 做他的面粉，或者砍伐他的树变成木板。
trees into boards.
He also did not make the plows(犁), the 他同样没有制造梨，工作的靴子，或者其他
work boots, or any of the other hundreds of 几百样中任何一个农场所需的东西。
things a farm needs.
Instead, he got them from people who 相反的，他从别人，那些专门做这些东西的
specialized in doing each of those things.
call ght.
人上得到了。
生。
Suppose there was another man we shall 假设有另外一个男人，我们叫他为梨瑞特先
Using what he knew about farming and 利用他知道关于务农以及铁的知识，梨瑞特
working with iron, ght invented a 先生发明了一个梨，它可以使农活变得更简
plow that made farming easier. 单。
ght did not really like farming 梨瑞特先生自身并不喜欢农活，他想要专业
himself and wanted to specialize in making 生产好的梨。上
really good plows.
Perhaps, he thought, other farmers will trade 也许，他认为，其他的农民将买卖用我所造
what they grow for one of my plows. 的梨所生长出来的作物。
How did ght let people know 梨瑞特先生如何让别人知道他正在做什么
what he was doing? Why, he advertised, of 呢？为什么，他用了广告，毫无疑问。
course.
First he opened a shop and then he put up a 起先他开来家商店，接着他在店外摆了一个