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Last month my team began a small project at work.上个月，我的团队开始做一个工作中的小「项目」。 The purpose was simple: make our pages faster for users.「目的」很简单：让我们的网页对用户更快。 We wrote a short program to check each order.我们写了一个短「程序」来检查每一笔订单。 At first only half of the orders passed.一开始只有一半的订单通过了。

Our manager asked an outside team to look at the data.经理请了一个「外部的」团队来看这些数据。 Their projection showed we could reach ninety percent in a month.他们的「预测」显示，我们一个月内可以达到百分之九十。 So we fixed the slow steps one by one.于是我们把那些慢的环节一个一个修好。 The quality went up, and users stopped calling to complain.「质量」提升了，用户也不再打电话抱怨了。

On Saturday my father called me at my office.周六，父亲打电话到我的「办公室」。 He is a police officer, and his old computer would not turn on.他是一名「警官」，他那台旧电脑开不了机。 I drove to his house and cleaned the inside of the machine.我开车到他家，把机器里面清理干净。 Then it started fine, and we had tea together.然后它就能正常启动了，我们还一起喝了茶。

The official numbers came a week later.一周后，「正式的」数字出来了。 Half became ninety-five percent, and the team was happy.一半变成了百分之九十五，团队很高兴。 A small project can teach you a lot about people and work.一个小项目能让你学到很多关于人和工作的东西。