新标准大学英语综合教程3课文与翻译
while he repaired a buggy or built a table. 看着自己修马车，或是打桌子。
要是孩子问―爸爸，您是干什么的？‖，爸爸
3 When a child asked, \kind of work do you do, 3.
Daddy?\his father could answer in terms that a child could 会用孩子能理解的语言回答他，比如：―我是修蒸come to grips with, such as \fix steam engines\or \make 汽机的‖，或者―我是做马项圈的‖。 horse collars\
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可是，现在修蒸汽机或是打桌子的父亲很少
4 Well, a few fathers still fix steam engines and build tables, 了，绝大多数人都不干这个了。 现在，大多数的but most do not. Nowadays, most fathers sit in glass buildings 父亲坐在有玻璃外墙的大楼里，做着孩子们根本doing things that are absolutely incomprehensible to children. 理解不了的工作。 当被问道―爸爸，您做什么工The answers they give when asked, \作？‖时，他们的回答往往让孩子大惑不解。 do, Daddy?\mystifying to a child.
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―我是楼盘顾问。‖ ―我做市场研究的。‖ ―我是
5 \sell space.\\do market research.\\am a data 数据处理员。‖ ―我在公关部工作。‖ ―我是系统分processor.\systems analyst.\析师。‖ 这些解释对小孩子来说肯定是毫无意义Such explanations must seem nonsense to a child. How can he 的。 他怎么可能想象得出一个人是怎么去分析系possibly envision anyone analyzing a system or researching a 统和研究市场的呢？ market?
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即使是那些从事市场研究工作的成年人也很
6 Even grown men who do market research have trouble 难想象公关部的人每天都在做些什么，一名普通visualizing what a public relations man does with his day, and it 的系统分析师肯定不知道楼盘顾问在店里都干些is a safe bet that the average systems analyst is as baffled about 什么，就好像楼盘顾问对分析系统的工具也一窍what a space salesman does at the shop as the average space 不通一样。 salesman is about the tools needed to analyze a system.
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在普通的日常工作中，没有什么东西是手工
7 In the common everyday job, nothing is made any more. 制作出来的了。 现在什么东西都是机器生产的。 Things are now made by machines. Very little is repaired. The 也极少有东西需要修理。 机器生产出来的东西很machines that make things make them in such a fashion that 容易散架，而这样的东西要拿去修理的话费用非they