Your goal to getting dressed for work is to project a professional, competent image, regardless of your employement level or career path.

不管你的职位等级或者职业道路如何，你的职业穿着都是为了给人一种专业，称职的印象。

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Even in the 1960s, he had a strong public image as an honest, competent law enforcement technocrat.

即使在二十世纪60年代，他的公众形象依然算十分良好，被看作是诚实并且能力卓越的执法技术专家。

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We have a rose-colored view of who we are and what we do, and we aim to behave in ways that are consistent with our self-image as capable, competent, helpful, and honest individuals.

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Britain had to fall back on claims of safer, more competent and more scholarly stewardship: claims now demolished, almost literally, by the image of British workmen in overalls scraping their blades across the shoulders of the gods.

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