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译者___林东阳______ 班级____ACCA_____ Good Business 一个出租车调度员 It’s 7 a.m. in Kyoto Japan, and the taxi company has just called a second time to say they can’t find my house. Once again I spell out directions even a blind cabby could follow, glance impatiently at my watch, and wait. Only two hours remain until my flight leaves—and it’s an hour-and-a-half trip to the Osaka airport. 就在刚才，日本京都时间早上7点，那家该死的出租车公司已经是第二次打电话过来说他们找不到我的房子了。在再一次大声说出连一辆瞎了眼的车都能找到的地址之后，我焦急地看了一下我的手表，又等了起来。要知道，现在距离我的航班起飞只有两个小时的时间而从这里出发到奥斯卡机场需要1个半小时的车程，你说我能不急吗？ Outside, torrential rains are threatening to sweep my little house off the mountain slope on which it teeters, so far north in Kyoto that city buses lurch past only three times a day. 屋外猛烈的暴雨还在肆虐，湍急的雨水把我的小房子冲的左摇右晃，好像一不小心就会把它从斜坡上冲下去。而目前我住的地方是在京都北部一个每天只会有3班城市公交经过的地方。 The telephone rings again. “Terribly sorry,” begins the dispatcher. Then I realize what’s happened. Flooded with calls, the company is maximizing profits by handling only in-city runs. I’d heard this happens when the weather gets bad. I shout into the phone that I have a plane to catch—I must be in Seoul by noon—and I’ll meet the taxi a few hundred meters away on a bridge over the Kamo River. 电话声再次响起：“非常抱歉”，电话那头调度员如是说道。我猜我知道刚发生了什么：当潮水般的订车电话涌向出租车公司时，为了获得最大利益，这间公司选择了只应对城市内部的出租车订单。而这个消息本该在天气开始变坏的时候就让我知道得。问题是我没有！我歇斯底里地朝着电话那头喊叫：“你们知不知道我还有一个航班要赶上--我必须在中午的时候到达首尔--然后再到几百米远的康莫河上面的桥那里搭出租车！现在，这些全都没了！！” Standing above the gale-swelled torrent, horizontal wind-driven rain drenching my overcoat, I gaze up and down the road. No taxi. Finally, struggling with my umbrella and suitcase, I begin to hitchhike. A sedan goes by, driver and passenger staring at the lunatic, well-dressed foreigner walking backward and holding his thumb out in the downpour. 站在倾盆大雨之中，我的整件大衣都被那些被风吹的平平刮来的雨水打湿了，极目远眺，整条大路上却连车影子都没看到。费力地拖动着我的行李，顶着雨伞，我决定碰运气，期望能在路上碰到便车，顺道送我去一下机场。这时，一辆轿车驶过，车上的司机和乘客眼睁睁看着车后跟着的一个愚蠢的，把自己包裹得紧紧，在倾盆大雨中费力地伸出拇指，期待他们大发善心能载他一程的外国人，无动于衷地驶过。 From the other direction a white Nissan approaches, then jams on its brakes. A yo