高频通用词 第 242 级 · 阅读短文

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Our team had a hard deadline last month.我们团队上个月有一个很紧的截止日期。 We had to confine the work to one compact room.我们只好把活儿「限制」在一个「紧凑」的房间里做。 At first the plan looked simple, and nobody wanted to deceive the manager.起初计划看着很简单,没有人想「欺骗」经理。 Then we found a deficit of time and a clear deficiency: nobody had tested the code on a real phone.后来我们发现时间有「不足」,还有一个明显的「缺陷」:没人真机测过这段代码。

Some of us in one age bracket speak a local dialect at lunch.我们中有几个人在同一个年龄「段」,午饭时说本地的「方言」。 Our manager asked us to dictate the main steps instead of explaining them.经理便要我们把主要步骤写下来「口述成文」,而不是口头解释。 That rule did elevate the quality of our notes.这条规矩确实「提升」了我们笔记的质量。 The slow elevation of our standard also kept the team calm.标准这种缓慢的「提升」也让团队保持镇定。

Still, the long nights brought deep fatigue.不过长期熬夜还是带来了深深的「疲劳」。 Our faculty of memory began to fail.我们的「官能」记忆开始失灵。 We mixed up names and lost one file twice.我们弄混名字,同一个文件丢了两次。

During the last review we stopped blaming each other and looked for the cause.在最后一次复盘时,我们停下互相指责,去找真正的起因。 It was fatigue and a missing test, not a weak plan.那是「疲劳」加一次漏掉的测试,而不是计划太弱。 We fixed both and closed the quarter with no loose ends.我们把两件事都修好了,本季度收工时没有留下任何尾巴。 That night everyone went home and slept well.那天晚上大家都回家睡了个好觉。

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