He wants someday to be able to rifle through mail as quickly as his wife and "round file" the piles of junk mail that comes across his desk.

他希望有一天能够像妻子一样，快速浏览邮件，“独自处理”办公桌上成堆的垃圾邮件。

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His personnel file had been removed and his desk had been entirely cleaned out. As Pistone himself says of his old life: "I obliterated it."

他的桌子被完全的清理掉了，人事档案也被删除，那里没有也不曾有个叫乔皮斯通的人工作过。

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When you encounter paper that does not require action or filing and you are uncertain what to do with it, place it in a tray or file that is off the desk. Label that file "Possibilities."

当碰到那些不要行动，保存或者干脆你不知道要怎样处理的文件时，把他们放在远离桌子的盘子或者文件夹里，贴上“可能有用”的标签。

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And so we just get new desks, wonderful chairs, desk for the teachers, file cabinets, and we're just waiting on our books.

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If any elements of your file are missing, you can expect that file to sit on a desk and collect dust.

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He left to take a phone call at his desk, which is in a row of cubicles along with the Zappos rank and file.

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