刻薄

During the last few days I have been thanking God I was not a superior person, and that I had not a facile pen or a great sense of saturnine humour so that I must indulge in something parallel to Nero's fiddling while Rome burned.

过去几天我一直在感谢上帝，幸亏我不是超人，又没有生花妙笔，或尖酸刻薄的幽默感，(译注：影射文豪萧伯纳，他曾有《人与超人》一作)我不必附庸风雅，效法暴君尼禄在罗马焚城时仍有闲情逸致吟诗作乐。

I wanted a career and ended up with Scrooge as my boss.

我要事业，结果遇见了一个刻薄的老板。

Modern election campaigns are often criticized for being negative, and today's press is slammed for being scurrilous.

现代竞选过程中充满了负面的批评，今天的新闻也很是刻薄。

For one moment, I had an awareness of myself as having been sharp-tongued once and cynical, and keenly aware of the nature of men in general.

有那么一会儿，我意识到自己曾是一个说话尖酸刻薄、愤世嫉俗，并热切地想获知普通人的本性的人。

Robin, a sharp-tongued New Yorker, was working for a magazine aimed at woman issues as an assistant editor.

罗宾是一个说话尖酸刻薄的纽约人，她为一家主要关注女性问题的杂志做助理编辑的工作。

But now, in an age of cultural shrillness and unrestrained rumor-mongering on the Internet, these three questions are finding new adherent s.

然而，在当今这个崇尚刻薄文化的时代，在这个可以通过互联网肆无忌惮传播流言的时代，这三个问题有了新的实际应用意义。

He is ironical, provoking, questioning, the old enemy of the Sophists, ready to put on the mask of Silenus as well as to argue seriously.

尖酸刻薄，烦躁不安，佶屈聱牙，是诡辩家们的宿敌，时刻准备着戴上西勒诺斯的面罩提出严肃的诘问。

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

Slickness " and " Face of Chinese Personality of workers in semiconductor industry are significantly related to the Work Stress Perception.

一、从业人员之华人人格中的「和谐性」、「人情」、「传统-现代化」、「阿Q精神」、「宽容-刻薄」、「老实-圆滑」、「面子」对工作压力知觉具有显著相关。

She finished by tartly pointing out that he owed her some money.

她最后刻薄地指出他欠她一些钱。

Do you know, i need you to come back

你知道吗，我需要你回来

Yang yinshu、Wang xiangsheng、Li decang,The first discovery of haemaphysalis conicinna.

1〕 杨银书，王祥生，李德昌。安徽省首次发现嗜群血蜱。