This seems to be the irony of office speak: everyone makes fun of it, but managers love it, companies depend on it, and regular people willingly absorb it.

这似乎是对办公室用语的讽刺：每个人都取笑它，但经理们喜欢它，公司依赖它，普通人也乐于接受它。

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But this seems to be the irony of office speak: Everyone makes fun of it, but managers love it, companies depend on it, and regular people willingly absorb it.

但这似乎是对办公室闲聊的讽刺：每个人都取笑它，但经理们喜欢它，公司依赖它，普通人也乐于接受它。

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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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But he says it would not be right for him to speak at length about the conflict until he takes office on January 20th.

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The sovereign, he says, or Leviathan, this great artificial man, the sovereign is something more like what we would call today an office, rather than a person, as when we speak of the executive as an office.

他说，君主，或者“利维坦，这个人造的人，君主更像是,我们今天称之的“职务“，而不是一个人，就像我们说某个职务的执行官一样。

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Femme fatale in the office, so to speak.

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Earlier this year the Foreign Office asked former diplomats who speak Arabic to help out during the Egyptian crisis.

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As she is still a minor under Swazi law, her mother, a public-relations manager at the post office, can claim to speak for her.

ECONOMIST: Yes