Do exercise one for homework.

It's difficult to reconcile the demands of my job and the desire to be a good father

我很难做到既兼顾工作，又达成做个好父亲的愿望。

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He has never camouflaged his desire to better himself

他从不掩饰自己的上进心。

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Personal development is about desiring and pursuing knowledge.

个人提升即对知识的渴望与追求。

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When you try to please everyone, you're bound to disappoint someone.

当你试着想要让所有人都满意的时候，你肯定会让一些人失望。

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We don't want to disappoint our loved ones.

我们不想辜负我们的亲人。

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Say things to show you understand, like "I'm really sorry ． I know this must be disappointing ．"

说一些表示你理解对方的话,比如"我真的很抱歉。我知道这一定很令人失望。"

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The next day, we got a disappoint message that another buyer had offered a much higher price.

第二天,我们收到一个令人失望的消息,另一个买主提出了更高的价格。

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I'm sorry to disappoint you again, but really I'll be tied up then.

很抱歉又一次让你失望，可是我实在抽不出身来。

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We will never disappoint our motherland in her expectations of us.

我们决不辜负祖国对我们的期望。

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How disappointing!

真叫人扫兴！

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It was a disappointing result for the Greens who polled three percent

这个结果让绿党感到失望，他们只获得了3%的选票。

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The wine was excellent, but the food was disappointing

酒棒极了，但是饭菜却让人不敢恭维。

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Confronted by a setback such as a disappointing test grade, students with a growth mind-set said they would study harder or try a different strategy.

在面对挫折，如一次令人失望的考试成绩时，有成长思维模式的学生说，他们会更努力学习或尝试不同的学习方法。

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And finally there is The Bungee Product Owner ( its name inspired by Dilbert, of course): a Product Owner who is hardly available and who just about makes it to the sprint planning and review meetings.

最后的问题是“蹦极产品负责人”（当然，这个名字来自Dilbert漫画）：一个几乎没什么作用的产品负责人，只参加sprint计划会议和复查会议。

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Adams thought Dilbert might have potential as a comic strip. In 1988, he made up a few strips with his new charater and mailed them out to some of the major cartoon companies.

亚当斯认为《呆伯特》有潜力可以成为连载漫画，因此一九八八年，他以这个新角色创作了连载漫画，并寄给几家主要的卡通公司。

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And to the extent that Americans do, "they think of Dilbert," explains Jeffrey Wilcox, vice president of engineering at Lockheed Martin.

在许多美国人的印象中，“他们就是一群呆伯特（Dilbert），”洛克希德·马丁公司（Lockheed Martin）工程事务副总裁杰弗里·威尔科克斯（Jeffrey Wilcox）解释说。

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The first rule to be successful is to recognize a good idea and do something with it. That is exactly what Scott Adams, the inventor of Dilbert, did.

成功的首则是，认清这是个好点子，并采取相关行动，《呆伯特》的创作者史考特·亚当斯确实奉行。

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As usual, Adams was doodling rather insulting characters of his co-workers and bosses and there in front of him was Dilbert.

那天亚当斯和平常一样，以他的同事与上司为对象，带点戏谑地乱画，而产生了呆伯特。

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Dilbert: The upgrades sounded good-new lighting fixtures, flooring, and sound-deadening walls and ceilings.

德尔伯特：这次的更新换代听起来不错—新的照明灯具，地板，隔音墙壁及天花板。

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Adams didn't quite his day job until 1995. He decided that for Dilbert to really take off, he needed to give him full attention. It paid off!

亚当斯一直到一九九五年才辞掉白天的工作，他决定若要让《呆伯特》真正成名，就必须全神贯注，而他也的确成功了！

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