乏味

His Age of Diminished Expectations and Peddling Prosperity filled the gap between the boringly descriptive genre of "up-and-down economics" books and sensationalist and shallow "airport economics" books.

他写的《期望灭失时代》（ Age of Diminished Expectation ）与微弱繁荣的时代，填补了枯燥乏味地描述经济波动的经济学书籍，与标题党式的、浅陋的、在机场出售的经济学书籍之间的鸿沟。

Don't shove the boring jobs off onto other people.

别把乏味的工作硬推给别人去干。

You might complain about the time before too simple to do too boring, but you know, it is each person must go through a stage when you could simply do things the perfect time, leaders certainly will arrange for you to do some more meaningful things.

你可能会抱怨以前做的时间太简单太乏味，可是你知不知道，这是每个人必须经历的阶段，当你能够把简单的事情做的完美的时候，领导者肯定是会安排你做一些更有意义的事情的。

There was on his face an expression of solemn and holy rapture, as if he were revealing to me the mysteries of his religion. I became far more interested in him than in the socks. I looked at him in amazement."My friend," said I,"if you can keep this up, if this is not merely the enthusiasm that comes from novelty, from having a new job, if you can keep up this zeal and excitement day after day, in ten years you will own every sock in the United States." My amazement at his pride and joy in salesmanship will be easily understood by all who read this article. In many shops the customer has to wait for someone to wait upon him. And when finally some clerk does deign to notice you, you are made to feel as if you were interrupting him. Either he is absorbed in profound thought in which he hates to be disturbed or he is skylarking with a girl clerk and you feel like apologizing for thrusting yourself into such intimacy. He displays no interest either in you or in the goods he is paid to sell. Yet possibly that very clerk who is now so apathetic began his career with hope and enthusiasm. The daily grind was too much for him; the novelty wore off; his only pleasures were found outside of working hours. He became a mechanical, not inspired, salesman. After being mechanical, he became incompetent; then he saw younger clerks who had more zest in their work, promoted over him. He became sour. That was the last stage. His usefulness was over. I have observed this melancholy decline in the lives of so many men in so many occupations that I have come to the conclusion that the surest road to failure is to do things mechanically. There are many teachers in schools and colleges who seem duller than the dullest of their pupils; they go through the motions of teaching, but they are as impersonal as a telephone.

他的脸色庄严而虔诚，就像是在向我透露他的信仰中的奥秘似的我对他远远超过了对袜子的兴趣我吃惊地打量着他"我的朋友，"我说，"如果你能这样保持下去，如果这热情并不仅仅缘于新奇，缘于找到份新工作，如果你能日复一日地保持这种热心和激情，不出十年，全美的每一双袜子都将是从你手中卖出去的"我对他推销时的自豪与欣喜所感到的诧异，读者诸君当不难理解在很多店铺，顾客不得不等待有人来招呼当终于有个售货员肯屈尊理你，那样子又让你感觉像是打扰了他他不是陷于讨厌被人搅扰的深思之中，就是和女售货员嬉戏调笑；而你不适时的插入打断了他们的亲昵，为此你感觉好像需要道歉似的他显示出对你和他拿着工资去卖的东西毫无兴趣然而，就是这样一个如此冷漠的售货员，或许当初也是满怀希望和热情开始工作的天天枯燥乏味的苦差事令他不堪忍受，新鲜感磨去了，惟一的乐趣只能在工作之外找到他成了一个机械的没有干劲的售货员机械呆板之后便是笨拙无能随后，看到比他年轻工作热情比他高的售货员得到了提拔，在他之上，他于是变得烦躁刻薄此时便到了他职业生涯的最后阶段他不再有用了我观察到，很多职业中的太多人在人生道路上都有这种可悲的堕落由此我得出结论：机械地应付差事是离失败最近的路大中小学里的许多教师，似乎比他们最最迟钝的学生还要呆滞；他们似乎也搞搞教学，却毫无人的感情，就如同一部电话机

You make stupid jokes and sleazy innuendoes and it's just not funny anymore.

你不停开这些乏味的玩笑和这些差劲的影射，它。。。

We know that seniority, especially in finance, is a long, hard, unglamorous slog.

我们知道，晋升至高管职位——尤其是在金融业——是漫长、艰难而乏味的旅途。

Don't slump on your chair even if your job happens to be dull.

不要萧条对你的椅子，即使你的工作恰好是乏味。

The lengthy snippets of soldierly conversation , salty and despairing , sound just right , though they necessarily can be only reconstructions of the real thing .

书中同样记录了一些冗长乏味的军人谈话片段，对话充满苦楚与绝望，但显得很真实，尽管这些是出于需要而把真实事情重新加工得到的。

Since 1999, when Musharraf seized power in a bloodless coup—he is still Commander-in-Chief of the Army—promising to bring "true" democracy, law and order, and economic revival, Islamabad has been unusually quiet, even by its own somnolent standards; indeed, across the country the government has faced surprisingly little opposition.

自1999年（其时穆沙拉夫通过和平政变掌控了大权，至今仍是军队总司令）上台伊始，穆沙拉夫就承诺要给巴基斯坦人民带来"真正"的民主、法治、秩序和经济复兴。伊斯兰堡要休养生息了，难得出现一个安定的政局（即使按照它那乏味松散的标准来看）。环顾整个国家，几乎找不到什么反对派，这的确让人啧啧称奇。

But if it is only a vague inclination, one poor sonnet will kill it.

但是如果只是暧昧的喜好，一首乏味的十四行诗会毁了它。

Breath, muscle contraction of the buttocks; arch body, as far as possible to hold his head, right leg straight towards the ceiling (peg-leg knee in order to avoid muscle tension).

呼气，收缩臀部肌肉；拱起身体，尽量抬起头来，右腿伸直朝向天花板（膝微屈，以避免肌肉紧张）。

The cost of moving grain food products was unchanged from May, but year over year are up 8%.

粮食产品的运输费用与5月份相比没有变化，但却比去年同期高8％。