1-pockmark 坑点，麻点

Removing the tiny eyes that pockmark potatoes is dull, repetitive and time-consuming work.

2-plant 工厂

3-stew 炖

4-prototype 样板，样机

5-up to (智力或体力上)能胜任

When a food processing plant that makes photo salad and stews in Hokkaido, tried out a robot prototype designed to remove the potatoes' eyes, the machine was not up to the task.

6-rotate 旋转

7-axis 轴

8-blemish 瑕疵

9-toxic 有毒的

While human hands can roll a potato in every direction, the robot could rotate the vegetable on only one axis, and so failed to dig out many of the blemishes that are toxic to humans.

10-carve away 被切掉

Other perfectly good pieces were carved away.

11-demographic 人口统计学的

12-impending 即将发生的，迫在眉睫的

Japan, the world's third largest economy, hopes that robots and other types of automation can help solve its demographic problems and impending labor shortage.

13-dub 把……称为；配音

The priority was reflected in a government blueprint, dubbed Society 5.0, and was repeatedly emphasized by the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

14-ripe 成熟的

15-outsource 外包

But businesses are struggling as some jobs that seem ripe for a robotic takeover prove remarkably difficult to outsource to a machine.

16-peel 剥皮，去皮

17-shuck off 剥……的皮

Workers peel skin, for example, because some skin enhances the flavor of stew. Robots can't determine just how much skin to shuck off.