每当公司问我为下一年设置的拓展目标是什么，我总是把自己描绘成一个橡皮条，一年比一年伸得更长，直到有一年突然拉断。
When companies asked me what stretch goals I was setting for the next year, I would picture myself as a rubber band, stretching more and more each year until one year, I would suddenly break.
他的下一个重大决定是比预期更好地完成这一计划：他对未来四年所做的计划，意味着这一目标将在2014-15财年里实现，比预期提前了一年。
In his next big decision, he plumped for overachieving: the specific plans he set out over the next four years mean that the goal should be met in 2014-15, a year early.
下一年底的目标是组建一个允许乘客浏览列车时刻表和价目表的网站，并且只用点击一两下就可以订购一张从欧洲这边到那边的票。
The aim by the end of next year is to have one website that will allow travellers to view timetables and prices and, with one or two clicks, book tickets from one end of Europe to another.
和主管谈谈你要在下一年度实现的一系列目标，以及如何实现目标的计划。
Talk with your manager about a list of targets you need to achieve in the coming year, and how to go about achieving them.
在编制下一年度的预算过程中，下列哪一个方法会带来大限度的正面激励和目标相容（各部门的目标与企业总体目标趋于一致）？
In developing the budget for the next year, which one of the following approaches would produce the greatest amount of positive motivation and goal congruence?
目前人们所猜测的美国的下一个打击目标都集中在西亚非洲，这就使这一地区在新的一年里平添了许多不确定因素。
At present, people guess all America's next targets of strike are situated in West Asia and Africa, which adds more unknown factors to the area in the New Year.
我们在今后一年中的目标是，保持和扩大2007年的战果，同时向下一战略阶段过渡。
Our objective in the coming year is to sustain and build on the gains we made in 2007, while transitioning to the next phase of our strategy.
在许多情况下一个推销员的预测数字是如此地不现实，以至于到了四月，他就远远落后了，从而不得不取消他的销售目标，为一年剩下的时间确定更为现实一些的目标。
In many cases a salesman's projections are so unrealistic that he gets too far behind by April and must therefore disregard his sales goals and establish more realistic ones for the rest of the year.
在许多情况下一个推销员的预测数字是如此地不现实，以至于到了四月，他就远远落后了，从而不得不取消他的销售目标，为一年剩下的时间确定更为现实一些的目标。
In many cases a salesman's projections are so unrealistic that he gets too far behind by April and must therefore disregard his sales goals and establish more realistic ones for the rest of the year.
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