Striking screenwriters may inspire less sympathy than factory workers who down tools, or even the cash-strapped graduate students who went on strike across California last year.

编剧罢工得到的同情可能比罢工的工厂工人，甚至是去年加州各地因缺钱而罢工的研究生更少。

They will down tools for up to 11 hours a day, escalating to a full-blown strike if no agreement on pay is reached.

他们每天会停工长达 11 个小时，如果不能就工资达成一致， 就会升级为全面罢工。

We've been told now that universities will go on strike this week and that the country's biggest trade union is also planning to tell its workers to down tools from tomorrow.

现在他们告诉我们，本周大学将举行罢工，该国最大的工会也计划从明天开始让工人放下工具（罢工）。

It came as a surprise to some pundits, who had previously also forecast a " hot autumn" of violent strikes and walkouts, but with a few isolated exceptions workers haven't downed tools.

这让一些权威人士感到意外，他们此前也曾预测将出现暴力罢工和罢工的“炎热秋季” ，但除了少数个别例外， 工人们并没有放下工具。

When you listen to all that, you could say, is this going to turn into a de facto general strike where everyone is simply just downing tools and the whole of the kind of public realm just starts to collapse?

当你听到所有这些时， 你可能会说，这是否会变成事实上的总罢工， 每个人都只是简单地放下工具， 整个公共领域才开始崩溃？