In a workplace that's fundamentally indifferent to your life and its meaning, office speak can help you figure out how you relate to your work—and how your work defines who you are.

在一个根本不关心你的生活及生活意义的工作场所，办公室用语可以帮助你理清你与工作的关系，以及理清工作定义你身份的方式。

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You've got to find out what's in those pigments, learn their composition, and that requires lab work—detective work really—in a word, Spectroscopy.

你必须找出那些颜料里有什么，了解它们的组成，这需要实验室的工作——真正的探测性工作——也就是光谱学。

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This work of collection is common in an office from the sorting of mail every morning to the accountant's work in finding out the final figure for the year's profit.

这种收集工作在办公室里很常见，从每天早上的邮件分拣到会计在查明年度利润的最后数字的工作。

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Industry was growing quickly -- but not quickly enough to give jobs to all the farmers out of work.

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the total amount of the work that we can get out is just given by the area inside this curve.

能够输出的功就是,我们可以得出来,曲线所包围的面积。

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But usually, if you are not able to work out something in terms of taking the exam at a different time,

不过通常情况下，你不太可能被允许换个时间参加考试，

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And as I said in my introductory remarks, not everything we do is going to work out exactly as we intended it to work out.

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There are always challenges in the wings that we have not seen, so that is why it's vitally important that we do this work and we work out exactly how many people we can employ.

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In order to work out whether investment increased or not we have to work out what happened to the dividends that were paid out, not just depend upon the fact that dividends were paid out.

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