高级英语电子档很实用

It happens to just about everybody in the company who graduated from a good business school with honors . 就连公司里几乎所有从高级商务学校以优秀成绩毕业的人们也不例外。

Every time we launch a new advertising campaign , for example , people inside the company are the first ones to be taken in by it .

比如，每当我们举行一个新的广告活动，公司内部的人总是最先被蒙骗的，

Every time we introduce a new product , or an old product with a different cover , color , and name that we present as new , people inside the company are the first to rush to buy it ---even when it‘s no good .

每当我们介绍一种新的产品，或者换了外包装、颜色并起了新的品名的老产品，即使一点也不好，公司内部的人总是第一个赶着去买的。

It‘s a wise person , I guess , who knows he‘s dumb , and an honest person who knows he‘s a liar .

我想，知道自己愚蠢的人是聪明的，而知道自己撒谎的人是诚实的。

And it‘s a dumb person who‘s convinced he is wise .

只有愚蠢的人才会自作聪明。

We wise grownups here at the company go sliding in and out all day long , scaring each other at

our desks and trying to evade the people who frighten us .

我们这些在公司这儿的聪明的成年人，整天悄悄地出没于办公室，大家互相惧怕并试图躲避令人生畏的人。

We come to work , have lunch , and go home .

我们上班，吃午饭，回家。

We goose-step in and goose-step out , change our partners and wander all about , and go back home till we all drop dead .

我们迈着正规的步子进进出出，下班后和其他部门的伙伴一起外出，直到累得筋疲力尽才回家。

Really , I ask myself every now and then , depending on how well or poorly things are going at the office or at home with my wife , or with my retarded son , or with my other son , or my daughter , or the colored maid黑人保 , or the nurse for my retarded son , is this all there is for me to do ?

实际上我时常问自己，仅取决于办公室情形的好坏，或者是家中我妻子、弱智的儿子、另一个儿子、我的女儿、黑人保姆以及照顾我的弱智儿子的护士情况的好坏，他们的情形如何，这就是我要做的全部吗？

Is this really the most I can get from the few years left in this one life of mine ?

难道这真的是我有生之年所能得到的最多的吗？

And the answer I get , of course , is always ---Yes !…

我所得出的结论当然永远是——是的！

I am bored with my work very often now .

我现在经常对工作非常厌烦，

Everything routine that comes in I pass along to somebody else . This makes my boredom worse .

每项常规的工作我总是交给其他人处理，而这使我更加感到厌烦。

It s a real problem to decide whether it‘s more boring to do something boring than to pass along everything boring that comes in to somebody else and then have nothing to do at all .

要判断究竟是干令人生厌的工作更加烦人，还是将令人生厌的工作交给他人处理，然后无所事事更烦人，这真是一个问题。

Actually , I enjoy my work when the assignments are large and urgent and somewhat frightening and will come to the attention of many people .

实际上，当任务又大又紧而且有些令人生畏还会引起很多人的注意时，我就非常喜欢我的工作。

I get scared , and am unable to sleep at night , but I usually perform at my best under this stimulating (刺激)kind of pressure and enjoy my job the most .

我变得惴惴不安，而且夜不能寐。但在这种极有刺激的压力下，我的表现最佳，也最喜欢我的工作。