《16-A Job Interview》.doc

Lesson 16: A Job Interview 面 试The senior partner studied the resume 簡歷for the hundredth time and again found nothing he disliked about Mitchell Y. McDeere, at least not on paper. 当这位资深的合伙人第100次研究米切尔?Y?麦克迪尔的简历 时，还是找不到任何不满意的地方，至少从书面上没有发现 He had the brains, the ambition, the good looks. 他有头脑，有野心，而且一表人才。 And he was hungry; with his background, he had to be. 他非常需要钱。从背景情况看， 他一定是这样。 He was married, and that was mandatory必須的. 他已经结婚了，这也是公司需要的。 The firm also frowned heavily on divorce, as well as womanizing and drinking. 公司对离婚、玩弄女人和酗酒非常反感。 Drug testing was in the contract. 吸毒药检也在合同之列。 He had a degree in accounting and wanted to be a tax lawyer, which was of course a requirement with a tax firm. 他有会计学的学位，而且他想成为一名税务律师,这当然是税务公司所要求的。 He was white, and the firm had never hired a black. He was male, and there were no women in the firm. 他是白人，公司从未雇佣过黑人。他是男性，公司里没有女士。 He looked good on paper. He was their top and only choice for this year. 从书面上看他很出色。他是他们这一年最好的而且是惟一的选择。 The managing partner, Royce McKnight, studied a dossier檔案labeled “Mitchell Y. McDeere—Harvard. 业务主管罗伊斯?麦克耐特，仔细研究了标有“米切尔?Y?麦克迪尔—哈佛”的档案。 It had been prepared by some ex-CIA agents in a private intelligence outfit. 这是由在一家私人情报机构的工作的特工提供的。 They learned, among other things, that he was holding three job offers, two in New York and one in Chicago. 其中他们还了解到他有三份工作，两份在纽约，一份在芝加哥。 He was in demand. Also he owed close to $ 23,000 in student loans. He was hungry. 他很抢手。他还欠将近 23 000美元的低息助学贷款。他非常需要钱。 McKnight smiled. McDeere was their man. 罗伊斯?麦克耐特露出了微笑。麦克迪尔就是他们需要的人。 Lamar Quin was thirty-two and not yet a partner. 拉马尔?奎恩32岁，还不是合伙人。 He had been brought along to look young and act young朝气蓬勃and project a youthful image for Bendini, Lambert Locke, which in fact was a young firm, since most of the partners retired in their late forties or early fifties with money to burn. 　他长得很年轻，朝气蓬勃，而且为本迪尼、兰伯特和洛克事务所设计了一个充满青春气息的形象，事实上它也的确是一个年轻的事务所，因为大多数合伙人在近50岁或50岁出头时就带着用不完的钱退休了。 Precisely at two-thirty someone knocked on t