脑筋转不过来的

Many thousands of investment-company boards meet annually to carry out the vital job of selecting who will manage the savings of the millions of owners they represent. Year after year the directors of Fund A select manager A, Fund B directors select manager B,etc.… in a zombie-like process that makes a mockery of stewardship. Very occasionally, a board will revolt. But for the most part, a monkey will type out a Shakespeare play before an "independent" mutual-fund director will suggest that his fund look at other managers, even if the incumbent manager has persistently delivered substandard performance. When they are handling their own money, of course, directors will look to alternative advisors – but it never enters their minds to do so when they are acting as fiduciaries for others.

成千上万的投资公司董事会每年都会聚会行使投资人赋予他们的重大责任-为其背后所代表的数百万投资人选择适当的人选来管理其身家财产，只是我们发现，年复一年董事会只不过是装出掌握控制权的表面假象，A基金公司永远选择A经理人、B基金公司也总是选择B经理人，其制式程序就像僵尸般食古不化，当然偶尔也会有董事会突锤，但大部分的时候，就算现任的基金经理人的表现有多差劲也一样视而不见，我想要等这些独立行使职务的董事愿意开始建议寻找其它合适的经理人人选，恐怕连猴子都有办法写出莎士比亚歌剧了，吊诡的是，当这些人在处理自己的资产时，只要发现苗头不对，他们肯定立刻见风转舵，另觅贤能，实在是无法理解当他们在受托帮他人管理资产时，为何脑筋偏偏就转不过来呢？

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。