高级英语 文章中需要背诵的段落下

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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 , opportun ity , 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 t he 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 without dependents ,

排在前几名的当然是这些人，他们中大部分是年轻又没有靠山的人。

to whom the company is not yet an institution of any sacred merit神聖價質的機構but still only a place to work , and who regard their present association with it as something temporary .

对他们自己来说，公司还不是一个有重要价值的机构，而只是一个工作的地方，并且认为他们目前的状况只是短暂的。

I put these people at the top because if you asked any one of them if he would choose to spend the rest of his life working for the company , he would give you a resounding No ! ,

我之所以把这些人排在首位，是因为只要问他们中的任何一个人他们后半生是否为公司工作，不管有什么样的诱惑，他都会响亮地回答―不！‖

regardless of what inducements were offered . I was that high once . if you asked me that same question today, I would