Unit2Thecompanyman课文翻译综合教程.docx

Unit2Thecompanyman课文翻译综合教程 篇一：Unit 2 The company man课文翻译综合教程三 Unit 2The Company ManEllen Goodman11 He worked himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning. 2 The obituary didn’t say that, of course. It said that he died of a coronary thrombosis — I think that was it — but everyone among his friends and acquaintances knew it instantly. He was a perfect Type A2, a workaholic, a classic, they said to each other and shook their heads — and thought for five or ten minutes about the way they lived.3 This man who worked himself to death finally and precisely at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning — on his day off — was fifty-one years old and a vice-president. He was, however, one of six vice-presidents, and one of three who might conceivably — if the president died or retired soon enough — have moved to the top spot. Phil knew that.4 He worked six days a week, five of them until eight or nine at night, during a time when his own company had begun the four-day week for everyone but the executives. He worked like the Important People3. He had no outside “extracurricular interests,〞 unless, of course, you think about a monthly golf game that way. To Phil, it was work. He always ate egg salad sandwiches at his desk. He was, of course, overweight, by 20 or 25 pounds. He thought it was okay, though, because he didn’t smoke.5 On Saturdays, Phil wore a sports jacket to the office instead of a suit, because it was the weekend.6 He had a lot of people working for him, maybe sixty, and most of them liked him most of the time. Three of them will be seriously considered for his job. The obituary didn’t mention that.7 But it did list his “survivors〞 quite accurately. He is survived by his wife, Helen, forty-eight years old, a good woman of no particular marketable skills, who worked in an office before marrying and mothering. She had, according to her daughter, given up trying to compete with his work years ago, when the children were small. A company friend said, “I know how much you will miss him.〞 And she answered, “I already have.〞 8 “Missing him all these years,〞 she must have given up part of herself which had cared too much for the man. She would be “well taken care of.〞9 His “dearly beloved〞 eldest of the “dearly beloved〞 children is a hard-working executive in a manufacturing firm down South. In the day and a half before the funeral, he went around the neighborhood researching his father, asking the neighbors what he was like. They were embarrassed. 10His second child is a girl, who is twenty-four and newly married. She lives near her mother and they are close, but whenever she was alone with her father, in a car driving somewhere, they had nothing to say to each other. 11The youngest is twenty, a boy, a high-school graduate who has spent the last couple of years, like a lot of his friends, doing enough odd jobs to stay in grass and food4. He was the one who tried to grab at his father, and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home. He was his father’s favorite. Over the last two years, Phil stayed up nights worrying about the boy.12The boy once said, “My father and I only board here5.〞13 At the funeral, the sixty-year-old company president told the forty-eight-year-old widow that the fifty-one-year-old deceased had meant much to the company and would be missed and would be hard to replace. The widow didn’t look him in the eye. She was afraid he would read her bitterness and, after all, she would need him to straighten out the finances — the stock options6 and all that.14Phil was overweight and nervous and worked too hard. If he wasn’t at the office he was worried about it. Phil was a Type A, a heart-attack natural. You could have picked him out in a minute from a lineup.15So when he finally worked himself to death, at precisely 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning, no one was really surprised.16By 5:00 p.m. the afternoon of the funeral, the company president had begun, discreetly of course, with care and taste, to make inquiries about his replacement. One of three men. He asked around: “Who’s been working the hardest?〞 工作狂 最终，他于星期天凌晨3点工作致死。

当然，讣告上没有这样写讣告上写的是死于冠状动脉血栓证，但他的好友和熟练的人都心知肚明他们相互握着手，摇头叹息地说他是一个追求完善的A型血人，一个典型的工作狂，然后用几分钟时间来反思自己的生活方式这个男人最终在星期天凌晨三点整工作致死星期天的早上，这天刚好是这个51岁的副总裁的休息日 他是公司六位副总裁之一，也是副总裁中三位最让人信任的人之一，假如总裁已经逝世或者退休的话，他已经成为了最高职位菲尔清晰这一点他一周工作六天，其中五天工作到夜里八九点，他的公司里除了高级官员，其别人都已经开头四天工作制 他工作起来像一个重要人物 当然，就像你想象中那样，他每月打一次高尔夫球，他没有其他的爱好对菲尔而言，高尔夫是工作他总是在他的桌前吃着吃鸡蛋沙拉三明治，他难免有点发福，超重了20-25磅他想这没什么关系，因为他从不抽烟 星期六，菲尔换下西服，穿着运动衫去上班，因为这是周末 他有大约60个人为他效力，大局部人在大局部时候觉得他很不错其中三位紧盯着他的职位讣告上没有提及这些但是讣告具体地介绍了他的遗孀他的妻子，海伦，一个48岁的好女人，没有什么特殊的市场力量，在结婚生子之前在一家公司上班 她说，在女儿的记忆里，她许多年前，当孩子们还很小的时候，就放弃了和他工作的抗争。

一个工作伙伴说，“我知道你将对他有多思念〞，她答复到，“我始终都很想他〞“想了他这么多年了，〞她如此在乎的这个男人，必需放弃她，以后她将会被“好好的照看〞他的“最爱的〞孩子们中“最爱的〞长子是南方某制造公司努力工作的经理在葬礼前的一天半里，他走访邻居询问邻居们询问邻居对他的印象他们很为难他的其次个孩子是一个女孩，24岁了，刚刚结婚她和妈妈住的很近，很亲热，但是无论什么时候，当她和爸爸独处的时候，哪怕是在一辆车中，他们相互没有什么言语最小的是一个男孩，20岁，高中毕业生，像许多他的伴侣一样，做一些。