Of all the depressing abuses of language in business, there is none that gets me so incensed as the rampant overuse of the word 'passionate' in company slogans, marketing blurbs, mission statements and on the sides of vans.

  • -- Tom Hodgkinson 汤姆·霍奇金森

在商界所有令人沮丧的滥用语言行为中,最令我恼火的莫过于在公司口号、营销宣传、使命宣言和货车两侧大肆滥用“激情”一词。

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It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

这是令人沮丧的,非常令人沮丧。我担心如何谋生。我不想呆在农场里。它没有提供我想要的挑战,然而,没有大学教育,我觉得我真的很倒霉。

Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.

也许一想到我对完美世界的想象如此混乱,我就有点沮丧,但我认为这意味着我并不真正理解什么是“完美”。

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

我从来没有以一个真正公开的,政治的,甚至确切的艺术使命宣言开始任何事情。