电报员

There, in the dawn's faint light, was a clerk from the company's stenography pool. When Schwab wondered what he was doing there were any letters or telegrams Schwab wanted sent right away.

当史瓦布问他为什么这么早来公司时，这位储备速记员说他是来看看史瓦布先生是否有什么急的信件或电报要处理。

Early one morning charles schwab arrived at one of the steel mills he managed.there, in the dawn's faint light, was a clerk from the company's stenography pool.when schwab wondered what he was doing there were any letters or telegrams schwab wanted sent right away.it would be hours before the rest of the staff arrived.

有天早晨，史瓦布来到他所经营的一家钢铁工厂，看到有一位公司的储备速记员也在那里。当史瓦布问他为什么这么早来公司时，这位储备速记员说他是来看看史瓦布先生是否有什么急的信件或电报要处理。他比其他员工早到了好几个小时来上班。

It is easy, then, to imagine Luisa Santiaga's surprise one night at a dance when the audacious telegraph operator took the flower from his buttonhole and said to her:"I give you my life in this rose."

一天晚上，在舞会上，那位大胆的电报员从他的纽扣眼里取出鲜花，对我母亲说：&我把我的生命放在这朵玫瑰中，献给你。&可以想象，她有多惊讶。

With another, when he was twenty and the telegraph operator in Ayapel, he had a daughter a few months old, whom he had never seen and whose name was Carmen Rosa.

他和另一个有一个女儿，叫Carmen Rosa，已经几个月大了，他还没见过，那是他20岁在Ayapel做电报员时候的事情。

That ended the joke , and edison won his job, as weil as the title of fastest telegraph operator in the Western Union Company

这就结束了这场玩笑，爱迪生也赢得了他的职位，同时还赢得了西联电讯公司最快电报员的称号。

His grateful father, who was a trained telegraph operator, offered to teach fifteen-year-old Tom to become an operator too.

到了1862年的冬天，爱迪生已经把铁路站长能教给他的东西全部学到了手，并返回波特·休伦，成了这个城镇的电报员。

He had just arrived from Cartagena de Indias after interrupting his medical and pharmaceutical studies for lack of funds, and had begun a somewhat commonplace life in several towns of the region in the recent profession of telegraph operator.

他本来学的是医药，因为缺钱中辍了学业，来到这附近的几个小城里开始较为平淡的生活，从事新近兴起的电报员行当。

But the only virtue of use to her in the flower of her twenty years was the strength of her character when the family discovered that she was mad with love for the young and haughty telegraph operator from Aracataca.

她有着种种美德，但是在她二十来岁、青春如花开放时，对自己能有所帮助的就只有她个性的强韧：那个时候，家人发现她爱上了一个来自Aracataca、目中无人的年轻电报员，爱得要发狂。

The financial means to remain independent, Thomas Edison was compelled to seek employment as a night telegraph operator.

详解：过去分词表示原因，作状语。句意为：失去了保持独立经济来源，爱迪生不得不当夜间电报员。

The majority of adults, however, viewed Luisa Santiaga as the precious jewel of a rich and powerful family whom a parvenu telegraph operator was courting not for love but self-interest.

大多数成年人则把Luisa Santiaga 看作富贵人家的掌上明珠，认为一个突然冒出来的电报员追求她不会是出于爱，肯定是为了一己私利。

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。