2024年4月17日发(作者：reno2和reno2z区别)

英译汉

1.

(1) When I was a boy I was always told, “Peter, the more you know, the further

you go.” So I stayed in school until I graduated from college and then went forth

into the world, holding firmly the idea and my new teaching certificate. During the

first year of teaching, I was upset to find that a number of teachers, school principals

and superintendents (主管) appeared to be unaware of their professional

responsibilities and incompetent (无能的) in carrying out their duties. (2) For instance,

my principal’s main concerns were that classrooms should be quiet and that no one

should step on or near the flower beds. The superintendent’s main concerns were

that all official forms should be submitted on time. The children’s education

appeared farthest from their mind.

At first I thought this was a special weakness of the local schools system in which

I started to work as a teacher. So I applied for certification in another state. (3) I filled

out the forms, enclosed the required documents and sent them off. Several weeks

later, back my application and all the documents!

No, (4) there was nothing wrong with my forms; they were all correctly filled out;

an official departmental stamp showed that they had been received in good order.

But an accompanying letter said, “The new regulations require that such forms

cannot be accepted by the Department of Education unless they have been

registered at the Post Office to ensure safe delivery.” Will you please re-mail the

forms to the Department, making sure to register them this time?

I began to suspect that the local school system did not have a monopoly (垄断)

on incompetence.

(5) As I grew older, I saw that every organization contained a number of persons

who could not do their jobs.

1. 当我还是个小男孩时，我就一直被告知说：“彼得，你知道得越多，你就会走得越远（你

的前程就会越远大）。”

2. 例如，我的校长主要关心的就是教室应该保持安静，不可以接近或踩到花坛里去。

3. 我填了表格，把要求的材料装入信封，然后将它们寄走了。

4. 我填写的表格一点没错啊，都正确地填写了！

5. 随着年龄的增长，我发现每个机构里都有那么几个不能胜任工作的人。

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2.

Some years ago, industries had more freedom than they have now, and they did

not need to be as careful as they must today. (1) They did not need to worry a lot