A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
部门
Department
I despise shopping and department stores.
我讨厌购物和百货商店。
My department is to get actors to do stuff.
我的部门是让演员们做一些事情。
Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
只有腿和高跟鞋的广告部门。
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
我不谈政治问题。那不是我的部门。
Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
设计是如此重要,它应该被列入每个部门的每次会议议程。
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
我父亲是哈佛大学化学系的教员;我母亲在结婚前读了一年的物理研究生。
You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.
你知道,我很容易失去耐心;我宁愿在杂货店购物也不愿在百货公司购物。我可以随便摘一个苹果。
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
虽然竞争法则有时对个人来说很难,但对种族来说却是最好的,因为它确保了适者生存。
The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.
斯坦福的战争项目基本完成了,我接受了明尼苏达大学的助理教授职位,那里有一个很好的生物化学系。
I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.
我不是摄影系的,而是学一门叫做特殊技能的东西。我要做海报,小册子,壁画,一般的宣传,你知道。
I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.
我在南非医学院的生理学系建立了一个实验室,开始尝试寻找一种噬菌体系统,我们可以用它来解开基因密码。
It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
投资于新工作是有意义的。这就像在科学实验室里有一个研究部门。你必须尝试一些事情。你会犯一些严重的错误。有些事情会失败,但至少你会让公司充满活力。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
联邦应急管理局的另一件事,我的理解是它应该进入国土安全部…以及与其他涉及国土安全问题的人进行横向交流。