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下册 1 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。 I handle all of these important projects myself , and I rejoice with tremendous pride and vanity in the compliments I receive when I do them well . 我独自处理所有这些重大的项目，并且当我成功地完成时，我会因受到赞扬而沉浸在极大的自豪与虚荣之中。 But between such peaks of challenge and elation興奮 there is monotony and despair . 但在这些挑战与兴奋的巅峰之间是单调与绝望。 ( And I find , too, that once I ‘ve succeeded in impressing somebody , I ‘m not much excited about impressing that same person again ; （而且我也发现一旦我给某人留下了深刻的印象，我就不再为给同一个人留下深刻印象而感到兴奋不已 there is a large , emotional letdown after I survive each crisis , a kind of empty , tragic disappointment , and last year’s threat , opportunity , and inspiration are often this year’s inescapable tedium . 在度过每次危机后，都会有一次大的情感失落，一种空虚和令人悲哀的失望。去年的威胁、机遇和鼓励经常会成为今年不可避免的冗长乏味。 I frequently feel I ‘m being taken advantage of 被利用merely because I ‘m asked to do the work I ‘m paid to do . ) 我常常觉得我被利用了，这只是因为我被要求做给我报酬的工作。） On days when I ‘m especially melancholy悲傷 , I began constructing tables of organization….classifying people in the company on the basis of envy , hope , fear , ambition , frustration煩惱, rivalry競爭 , hatred憎恨 , or disappointment 失望. 在我极度悲伤的日子里，我便开始将公司的人员结构列入图表……根据嫉妒、希望、恐惧、雄心、烦恼、对手、痛恨或失望，将公司的人员分类。 I call these charts my Happiness Charts . 我把这些表格叫做我的“快乐图”。 These exercises in malice never fail to boost my spirits but only for a while . 这些恶作剧总是使我精神振奋，然而都非常短暂。 I rank pretty high when the company is analyzed this way , because I ‘m not envious or disappointed , and I have no expectations . 这样分析公司时，我的排名非常靠前，因为我既不嫉妒也不灰心，而且我胸无大志。 At the very top , of course , are those people , mostly young and