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第23页 Politics offers a familiar example of contrast. Herbert Hoover must have learned administration in the cradle. When he was at school he was chosen as football manager, though he didnt know the game, and the glee club manager, though he couldnt sing a note. 政治圈提供了一个关于熟悉的对比例子。赫伯特?胡佛在摇篮里的时候就已经学会了政府管理。当他在学校时,他被选为足球主管和合唱团的主管,尽管他既不知道足球这个游戏也不会唱一个音符。 (Whatever he touched went smoothly, glee club or food for a starving Europe.) But one of his successors in the White House had about as checkered a youth as can be imagined. Turned down by West Point because of poor vision, Harry Truman tried a dozen jobs, including stretches in a drugstore, a bank, a bottling works, and a railroad yard. But he got there just the same. 但可以想象的到，他在白宫的继任者之一是一个命途多舛的年轻人。哈里 杜鲁门被西点军校以视力不好为由拒绝后，他尝试了很多工作,包括泡在一个药店,一家银行,一个装瓶厂,和一个联络调车场。但他到哪里都是一样的。 Great writers are supposed to be born, not made, but again there are many fascinating exceptions. William Faulkner quit school in the fifth grade and wandered around the country as a house painter and a dishwasher. 而人们认为：伟大的作家是天生的，不是造就的。但是，有许多例外，令人惊奇。威廉·福克纳读到五年级时便退学回家，在全国到处游荡，当过家庭油漆工，也洗过盘子。 但是，参加大学一年级英语考试，不及格而退学。他在密西西比州的一个小镇上，当上了邮局局长，然而，他把邮件搞得乱七八糟，想什么时候关门就什么时候关门，因而激怒了当地的人们。