共 16 句 · 中英对照 · 对应本级 10 个目标词
开始练这一级 →A big company hired a young programmer last year.一家大公司去年雇了一位年轻程序员。 Her first day brought a clear definition of her task.第一天就给了她一份清清楚楚的「定义」,说明她的任务是什么。 One dominant way of writing code filled every team.写代码只有一种「主导的」做法,每个团队都一样。 Older groups seemed to dominate each meeting.老团队在每次会上都像要「支配」一切。
She could not define or identify her own voice in that system.在那套体系里,她无法「定义」或「认出」自己的声音。 So she left and found a small team near the sea.于是她离开了,在一个靠海的小团队落脚。 It had no written rules, so she wrote a short guide for reviews.那里没有成文的规矩,她就写了一份简短的评审指南。 Every worker was asked to identify one problem in it.每位同事都被请从中「指出」一个问题。
Her quiet method definitely became dominant.她的安静做法「确实」变得「占优势」。 Other groups began to follow the same line.别的组也开始跟着同一条线走。 Her growing dominance came from being useful.她日益增长的「优势」来自有用。 She never wanted to dominate anyone, and the team's new identity grew from shared rules.她从不想去「主宰」任何人,而团队新的「认同感」正是从共同的规则里长出来的。
No one there felt like a replacement.在那里,没有人觉得自己是个替代品。 Two copies of the work looked almost identical.两份工作成果看起来几乎「完全相同」。 Quick spotting of mistakes became easy.快速发现错误也变得容易。 Real domination, she learned, is not control, and the worker who once felt small now felt at home.她明白了,真正的「统治」不是控制,而那位曾经觉得自己渺小的同事,如今觉得这里就是家。
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