2015年text3 第一段：

①Even in traditional offices, “the lingua franca of corporate America has gotten much more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 years ago,” said Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn. ②She started spinning off examples. ③“If you and I parachuted back to Fortune 500 companies in 1990, we would see much less frequent use of terms like journey, mission, passion. ④There were goals, there were strategies, there were objectives, but we didn’t talk about energy; we didn’t talk about passion.”

 

句子切分：

第一句：

1. Even in traditional offices, “the lingua franca of corporate America has gotten much more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 years ago,”

2. said Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn.

翻译解析：即使是在传统的办公室，“美国企业的职场用语也比20年前更具感情色彩和右脑化（非理性化），”哈佛商学院教授Nancy Koehn说。

 

第二句：

She started spinning off examples.

翻译解析：她开始举例。

 

第三句：

1. “If you and I parachuted back to Fortune 500 companies in 1990,

2.  we would see much less frequent use of terms like journey, mission, passion.

翻译解析：“如果你和我回到1990年的（状语前置）财富500强公司，我们将会很少听到诸如‘旅程’‘使命’‘激情’这样的词语。

 

第四句：

1. There were goals,

2. there were strategies,

3. there were objectives,

4. but we didn’t talk about energy;

5.  we didn’t talk about passion.”

翻译解析：那个时候人们谈论的是‘目标’‘战略’和‘任务’，但不谈‘能量’也不谈‘激情’。”

 

重点词汇：

right-brained：右脑主导的，也就是非理性的；

spin off:甩出；

parachute:作为名词表示降落伞；本文用作动词，表示跳伞，引申为回到；

object-objective：二者都可以表示目标，任务；

mission：职责；相当于duty；

corporate（形容词，公司的，法人的）--corporation（名词，公司）

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