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  3. "Sustainability" has become a popular word these days, but to Ted Ning, the concept will always have personal meaning. Having en

"Sustainability" has become a popular word these days, but to Ted Ning, the concept will always have personal meaning. Having en

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问题     "Sustainability" has become a popular word these days, but to Ted Ning, the concept will always have personal meaning. Having endured a painful period of unsustainability in his own life made it clear to him that sustainability-oriented values must be expressed through everyday action and choice.
    Ning recalls spending a confusing year in the late 1990s selling insurance. He’d been through the dot-com boom and burst and, desperate for a job, signed on with a Boulder agency.
    It didn’t go well. "It was a really bad move because that’s not my passion, " says Ning, whose dilemma about the job translated, predictably, into a lack of sales. "I was miserable. I had so much anxiety that I would wake up in the middle of the night and stare at the ceiling. I had no money and needed the job. Everyone said, ’Just wait, you’ll turn the corner, give it some time.
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答案Ning回忆起90年代后期销售保险那困惑的一年。在经历了互联网泡沫的膨胀和破灭后，他急需找到一份工作，因此就与Boulder公司签了约。
解析 boom and burst是准确理解全段的关键，boom是指“繁荣”，burst是指“破灭”。只有把这两者的逻辑关系(一正一反)搞清楚，才好理解之前的confusing(乱哄哄的、令人不知所终的)。此外，desperate for a job是后面signed这一行为的前因(请留意，在desperate之前，由and把前后两部分隔开)，故需要在“就与Boulder公司签了约”之前增补“因此”。我们将agency译成“公司”，能体现很好的英语语感。照此类推，像firm、service、ice、company、house这样的词，往往不需要死译，能交代清楚其实际功能即可。例如，travel service可译成“旅行社”，forest service可译成“森林(事务)管理局”，accounting firm可译成“会计师事务所”，real estate agency可译成“房地产中介公司”，Smith &Company可译成“史密斯记商行”，publishing house可译成“出版社”或“印书馆”乃至“书局”，banking firm或许是一家“票庄”，这都要视具体情形而定，或沿用公认的译名，不存在“放之四海而皆准”的译法。此外，dot-com译成“互联网泡沫”，较切合这里的上下文。
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