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每日英語：I Live Four Lives at a Time (下)
2013-02-18 15:52
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I Live Four Lives at a Time (下)
我的嘗試和成敗得失熔鑄成一個堅定的信念——絕非僅我一人試圖理解與尊重他人。我相信合作與相互關愛正是人類的本性。
I Live Four Lives at a Time
by Alice Thompson
My job itself is a reaffirmation of that by which I live. Very early in my working life, I was a small cog in a big firm. Emerging from a tiny job, I found a strange frightening world. Superficially, everyone was friendly. But beneath the surface were raging suspicion, distrust; the hand ever ready to ward off—or deliver—the knife in the back. For years I thought I was in a world of monstrous people. Then I began to know the company’s president. What he had been I have no way of knowing. But at seventy, he was suspicious, distrusting, sure that no one was telling him the truth. He had developed a technique of pitting all of us against each other. Able to see the distortion he caused, I youthfully declared that if I every ran a business, it would be on the reverse principle.
我的人生信條在工作中也得到了印證。從業之初，我只是一家大公司的無名小卒。我從低微的職位慢慢晉升，發現公司是個十分古怪而可怕的世界。每個人表面上和和氣氣，暗中卻相互猜忌，人人自危，既怕自己背後射來暗箭，又想伺機捅人一刀。幾年下來，我覺得公司裡每個人都是魔鬼，後來才發現這一切都是總裁一手造成的。他從前為人如何我無從得知，但年已七旬的他滿腹狐疑，不相信任何人，覺得所有人都在欺騙他，便運用手段挑起員工之間的爭鬥。明白了他何以能使人心扭曲，年輕的我暗下決心，他年我若自行創業，一定運用完全相反的原則。
For the last two years, I have had that opportunity, and had the joy of watching people—widely different people, too—learn to understand each other, accept each other, feel mutually responsible.
兩年前我終於有機會自立門戶，有了觀察人的工作。我看到各種不同的人如何學會相互理解和接受，對彼此盡責。
My trials and errors have really synthesized into one great belief, which is that I am not alone in my desire to reach my fellow man. I believe the human race is inherently cooperative and concerned about its brother.
我的嘗試和成敗得失熔鑄成一個堅定的信念——絕非僅我一人試圖理解與尊重他人。我相信合作與相互關愛正是人類的本性。
附註：
艾麗斯·湯普森夫人：是《十七歲》雜誌的發行人及總編，她是美國國家級雜誌發行人中第一位、也是唯一的一位女性。
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