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這次是在The New York Times出現的Lofty Promise of Saturn Plant Runs Into G.M.'s
Fiscal Reality。
Despite the ___ leaving their old jobs behind, workers were eager to come
because there were to be no layoffs under the union contract at Saturn.
[A] misgivings about
[B] trepidation over
[C] gratification of
[D] jubilation of
[E] benefit in
[F] profit in
這題只要看到despite就能知道答案該填甚麼了，despite (儘管)屬於反意連接詞，連接
句意相反的兩句話。
逗點後面說的是workers were eager to …，是屬於正面的語意，可見逗點之前就是填負
面語意的詞。所以能填的答案就是[A] misgivings about以及[B] trepidation over。
整句翻譯如下：
這些工人雖然很害怕把舊工作留在後頭，但他們還是很想進入Saturn，因為在Saturn的合
約下將不會裁員。