[英语学习]高级英语课文逐句译下册.doc

Lesson One The Company in Which I work 我工作的公司 By Joseph Heller 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 . All these twelve men are elderly now and drained by time and success of energy and ambition . 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。 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。 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 . 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 Department than he is . 在平常的工作日里，我很害怕杰克格林，这是因为我所在的部门属于他的部门，而杰克?格林是我的上司。 格林害怕我则是因为我的部门的绝大部分工作是为销售部所做的，而销售部比他的部门更重要，而且同他相比，我与迪卡葛勒以及销售部的其他人员的关系更加密切。 Green distrusts me fitfully . He makes it clear to me every now and then that he wishes to see everything coming out of my department before it is shown to other departments, I know he does not really mean this : he is too busy with his own work to pay that much attention to all