笨拙地

Years old to the unmarried woman are a quite awkward age, looks the same age good friend marries gives birth to a boy, is listening to family member's talking incessantly.

年年纪对未婚的妇女是相当笨拙年龄，查找同样好朋友结婚诞生男孩，听家庭成员的持续不断地谈话的年龄。

At the beginning of the last century, armies of paper pushers took their places at clumpy wooden desks; after the second world war, these were replaced by standard steel ones with drawers down either side, which all fitted together neatly to save space.

上世纪初，无数书记员是坐在笨拙的木质书桌前工作的；二战后，木书桌被标准规格的铁制书桌取代，这种书桌两侧都有抽屉，为节省空间起见，所有抽屉紧紧地排列在一起。

Today, 15 years later, I know why my attempt at consoling my friend was so ham-fisted.

时隔15年之后现在我知道在安抚我的朋友时采用的方式有多么地笨拙。

He says "I love you" haltingly, with awkward tenderness

父亲说"我爱你"，用他强而有力的援助之手，用他的微笑助你渡过困境，用他所理解的方式，他踌躇地说"我爱你"，带着笨拙的温柔

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

As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow'st, In one of thine, from that which thou departest, And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow'st, Thou mayst call thine, when thou from youth convertest, Herein lives wisdom, beauty, and increase, Without this folly, age, and cold decay, If all were minded so, the times should cease, And threescore year would make the world away: Let those whom nature hath not made for store, Harsh, featureless, and rude, barrenly perish: Look whom she best endowed, she gave thee more; Which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish: She carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby, Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.

和你一样快地消沉，你的儿子也将一样快在世界生长起来；你灌注给青春的这新鲜血液仍将是你的，当青春把你抛开。这里面活着智慧，美丽和昌盛；没有这，便是愚蠢，衰老和腐朽：人人都这样想，就要钟停漏尽，六十年便足使世界化为乌有。让那些人生来不配生育传宗，粗鲁，丑陋和笨拙，无后地死去；造化的至宠，她的馈赠也最丰，该尽量爱惜她这慷慨的赐予：她把你刻做她的印，意思是要你多印几份，并非要毁掉原稿。

Eventually such clumsy responses may make countries approach things narrowly and nationalistically, creating more global instability and less peace and prosperity.

最终这些笨拙的反应可能使得各国狭隘地、国家主义地追求一些东西，而引起全球更不稳定、更不和平、更不繁荣。

He stumbled with his old awkwardness after her, and his shoulders swung and lurched perilously .

他又是那样笨拙蹒跚地走在她的后面。甩着肩膀危险地晃动着身子。

One black ox, with a white cravat on -- who even had to my awakened conscience something of a clerical air4--fixed me so obstinately with his eyes, and moved his blunt head round in such an accusatory manner as I moved round, that I blubbered out to him,'I couldn't help it, sir!

其中一头颈上有一圈白色的黑牛，摆出一副牧师般的神气，用眼睛死死地盯着我，带着谴责的姿态掉转它那笨拙的脑袋。我心中内疚，跑过时甚至啜泣地对它说：我也没办法，先生。

For himself and me, lefthandedly

他自己和我，我笨拙地

No clear conclusions can be made about the predictie alidity of specific measures, they found, except for criteria for the underuse of drugs for cardioascular disease.

除了心血管病不合理用药标准外，对于特定评价方法的预测效度没有明确的结论。

The third and last is that almost all of them, being infinite in number, have been impostures, and by idle and crafty brains merely contrived and feigned after the event past.

第三、即最后一点是：几乎所有这些不胜枚举的预言都是欺人之谈，都是在事件过后由无聊而狡猾的脑筋推测与凭空捏造的。