电报员

Over the course of the year, Gabriel Eligil gave up his worthy profession of telegraph operator and devoted his autodidact's talent to a science on the decline: homeopathy.

接下去的一年里，Gabriel Eligil放弃了自己可敬的电报员事业，把他自学成材的天分转而用在顺势疗法这门渐趋衰落的科学上。

To oversee all the details yourself in person; to be at once pilot and captain, and owner and underwriter; to buy and sell and keep the accounts; to read every letter received, and write or read every letter sent; to superintend the discharge of imports night and day; to be upon many parts of the coast almost at the same time -- often the richest freight will be discharged upon a Jersey shore;-- to be your own telegraph, unweariedly sweeping the horizon, speaking all passing vessels bound coastwise; to keep up a steady despatch of commodities, for the supply of such a distant and exorbitant market; to keep yourself informed of the state of the markets, prospects of war and peace everywhere, and anticipate the tendencies of trade and civilization -- taking advantage of the results of all exploring expeditions, using new passages and all improvements in navigation;-- charts to be studied, the position of reefs and new lights and buoys to be ascertained, and ever, and ever, the logarithmic tables to be corrected, for by the error of some calculator the vessel often splits upon a rock that should have reached a friendly pier -- there is the untold fate of La Perouse;-- universal science to be kept pace with, studying the lives of all great discoverers and navigators, great adventurers and merchants, from Hanno and the Phoenicians down to our day; in fine, account of stock to be taken from time to time, to know how you stand.

亲自照顾一切大小事务；兼任领航员与船长，业主与保险商；买进卖出又记账；收到的信件每封都读过，发出的信件每封都亲自撰写或审阅；日夜监督进口货的卸落；几乎在海岸上的许多地方，你都同时出现了似的；——那装货最多的船总是在泽西岸上卸落的；——自己还兼电报员，不知疲倦地发通讯到远方去，和所有驰向海岸的船只联络；稳当地售出货物，供给远方的一个无餍足的市场，既要熟悉行情，你还要明了各处的战争与和平的情况，预测贸易和文明的趋向；——利用所有探险的成果，走最新的航道，利用一切航海技术上的进步；——再要研究海图，确定珊瑚礁和新的灯塔、浮标的位置，而航海图表是永远地改而又改，因为若计算上有了一点错误，船只会冲撞在一块岩石上而至于粉碎的，不然它早该到达了一个友好的码头了——，此外，还有拉·贝鲁斯的未知的命运；——还得步步跟上宇宙科学，要研究一切伟大的发现者、航海家、探险家和商人，从迦太探险家饭能和腓尼基人直到现在所有这些人的一生，最后，时刻要记录栈房中的货物，你才知道自己处于什么位置上。

He got a job with the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company where he worked as a telegraph operator.

他得到了与马可尼无线电报公司，他作为一个电报员的工作职位。

In three weeks Edison was a better telegrapher than his teacher.

在三个星期爱迪生比他的老师是一名更好的电报员。

Afterwards, he is promoted, to become the outstanding telegrapher who in the telegram company is second to none.

后来，他被提升，成为电报公司里首屈一指的优秀电报员。

He gave him lessons four days a week after the station had closed for the nightand in three weeks Edison was a better telegrapher than his teacher.

他在车站夜晚关门后，每周给他上四次课，三个星期之后爱迪生便成为比他老师更好的电报员了。

He gave him lessons four days a week after the station had closed for the night and in three weeks Edison was a better telegrapher than his teacher.

他在车站夜晚关门后，每周给他上四次课，三个星期之后爱迪生便成为比他老师更好的电报员了。

He gave him less** four days a week after the station had closed for the nightand in three weeks Edison was a better telegrapher than his teacher.

他在车站夜晚关门后，每周给他上四次课，三个星期之后爱迪生便成为比他老师更好的电报员了。

A.Guy (Note 1), a skilled telegrapher, arranged for his father, aretired railroad telegrapher, to operate a key, each closure andopening of which resulted in a pulse of microwave energy.

一个人（注1），一个熟练的电报员，为他父亲，一个退休的铁路电报员，安排了一个操控的要是，每次关闭和打开都导致了一个微波能的脉冲。

Edison went to Boston's where he had been promised work as a telegraph operator, mainly because of the neat handwriting in his letter of application, When he appeared in that city, he looked so untidy and strange that the superintendent asked him to return later in the day to take a test in telegraphy, with the idea of making the test so difficult that the young man could not possibly pass it, As the rapid message came in, Edison realized clerks in the station were playing a joke on him.

爱迪生去到了波士顿，在那里有人答应给他电报员的工作，主要因为他的求职信中字迹写得工整。当他在波士顿露面时，他是如此的衣冠不整，怪里怪气，以致主管人叫他当天晚些时候去参加电报技术的考试，目的是要故意出难题，使这位青年考不及格。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。