高级英语下册1-8__(最终).docVIP

高级英语 下 册 Lesson One The Company in Which I work…… 我工作的公司 Lesson Two Eveline 伊芙林…… Lesson Three What’s Wrong with Our Press……22 我们的报纸问题何在 Lesson Four The Tragedy of Old Age in America…… 美国老龄的悲剧 Lesson Five Trifles(Part One) 琐事(第一部分) …… Lesson Six Trifles(Part Two) 琐事(第二部分) …… Lesson Seven Ace in the Hole 埃斯身陷困境…… Lesson Eight Science Has Spoiled My Supper…… 84 科学毁了我的晚餐 Lesson one The Company in Which I Work 我工作的公司 In the company in which I work, each of us is afraid of at least one person. The lower your position is, the more people you are afraid of. And all the people are afraid of the twelve men at the top who helped found and build the company and now own and direct it. 我工作的公司里，每个人都至少害怕一个人。职位越低，所惧怕的人越多。所有的人都害怕那十二位顶层上司，他们帮助创建了这个公司，而且现在仍然大权在握。 All these twelve men are elderly now and drained by time and success of energy and ambition. Many have spent their whole lives here. They seem friendly, slow, and content when I come upon them in the halls and always courteous and mute when they ride with others in the public elevators. They no longer work hard. They hold meetings, make promotions, and allow their names to be used on announcements that are prepared and issued by somebody else. Nobody is sure anymore who really runs the company (not even the people who are credited with running it), but the company does run. (横线句子翻译) 所有这十二位都已经上了年纪，而且岁月的沧桑和对成功的执著追求使他们心力交瘁。他们中很多人在这儿干了一辈子。当我在大厅里遇见他们时，他们看上去非常友善、沉稳而心满意足，而且他们与别人一起乘坐公共电梯时又总是彬彬有礼、沉默不语。他们不再努力工作。他们主持会议，决定别人的晋升，任凭别人在准备发布的通告中使用他们的名字，没有人知道谁真正经营这家公司(甚至连人们认为现在经营着这家公司的那些人都不知道)，然而公司的确在运转。 In the normal course of a business day. I am afraid of Jack Green because my department is part of his department and Jack Green is my boss; Green is afraid of me because most of the work in my department is done for the Sales Department, which is more important than his department, and I am much closer to Andy Kagle and the other people in the Sales