高级英语电子档很实用

The salesmen are proud of their position and of the status and importance they enjoy within the company , 销售员们不仅对他们的岗位而且对他们在公司中享有的地位及重要性感到自豪。

for the function of my department , and of most other departments , is to help the salesmen sell .

因此我的部门以及其他的大多数部门的职能就是协助销售人员的推销，

The company exists to sell . That‘s the reason we were hired , and the reason we are paid .

公司就是靠销售生存。这就是我们受雇佣拿薪水的原因。

The people in the company who are least afraid are the few in our small Market Research Department ,

公司里最不担惊受怕的人就是在我们这个小小的市场调研部工作的为数极少的几个人，

who believe in nothing and are concerned with collecting , organizing , interpreting 解釋, and reorganizing statistical information about the public , the market , the country , and the world .

他们从不担心任何事情，而只关心对公众、市场、国内以及世界的统计信息的收集、组织、解释以及重新组织。

For one thing , their salaries are small , and they know they will not have much trouble finding jobs paying just as little in other companies if they lose their jobs here .

但有一点，他们的工资很少，而且他们也知道如果一旦失去这里的工作，这么少的工资，在其他公司找份工作并不困难 Their budget , too , is small , for they are no longer permitted to undertake large projects .

他们的预算也很少，因为他们从来没有得到允许承担过大项目。

Most of the information we use now is obtained free from trade associations and some governmental organizations , 我们现在使用的绝大部分信息都是从贸易协会和一些政府机构免费得到的，

and there is no way of knowing anymore whether the information on which we base our own information for distribution is true or false .

而且对于我们所发布的信息的来源真实与否也无从知晓。

But that doesn‘t seem to matter ; all that does matter is that the information come from a reputable 著名source . 然而这似乎并不太重要，重要的是这些信息出自一个信誉好的来源。

People in the Market Research Department are never held to blame for conditions they discover outside the company that place us at a competitive disadvantage .

市场调研部的人们从没有因为他们在公司外发现我们处于竞争劣势而受到责备。

They are not expected to change reality , but merely to find it if they can and suggest ingenious機靈 ways of disguising掩 it .

他们不能改变现实，而如果他们能的话，也只能发现它并提供巧妙的方法来掩盖它。

To a great extent , that is the nature of my own work ,

在很大程度上，这就是我工作的性质。

and all of us under Green work closely with the Sales Department and the Public Relations Department in converting whole truths into half truths and half truths into whole ones .

而且所有格林的属下与销售部和公共部密切合作，从而将全部的事实变成一半，而把一半事实变成全部。

I am very good at these techniques of deception(欺騙), although I am not always able anymore to deceive myself . 虽然我不是总能欺骗我自己，但是却很擅长这些骗人的把戏。`

In fact , I am continuously astonished by people in the company who fall victim to their own propaganda . 宣傳 实际上，我经常为公司的人们被自己的宣传所欺骗而吃惊

There are so many now who actually believe that what we do is really important .

现在有很多人相信我们所做的工作是非常重要的。

This happens not only to salesmen , but to the shrewd精明 , capable executives in top management .

不仅销售人员是这样，那些精明能干的高级管理人员也是这样。

It happens to people on my own level and lower .

和我同级的人是这样，比我低的人也是这样。