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Now I am not pretending that something like this is being said in every branch of English industry,
我現在并不是在故弄玄虛地說，在英國所有的工業部門都有這種議論。
and certainly not where there is a genuine-if rather old-fashioned-pride in the work on hand.
可以肯定地說，在對自己現在從事的工作有一種真正的自豪一即使是如今已不時興的那種自豪的部門，這種議論是沒有的。
But something like it is being said, thought or felt, in the very places where there is the most money, the most boredom, the most trouble and industrial action, and indeed the most Admass.
但恰恰就是在那種最賺錢、最單調乏味、麻煩最多、"工業行動"最多，老實說.即商業廣告推銷最厲害的地方，人們有類似這樣的議論、想法或感觸。
Behind the constant bickering , the sudden walk-outs and strikes, the bloody-mindedness, which bewilder so many foreign commentators, is the conflict between Admass, offering so much, and the Englishness that instinctively recoils from Admassian values and life-style.
在無休止的爭吵，突然的罷工，讓許多外國評論家迷惑不解的咄咄逼人的固執背后是這樣一種矛盾：一方面是商業廣告推銷，向你提供眾多的東西;一方面是英國人特性，本能地對這種商業廣告推銷的價值觀和生活方式感到反感。
There are, of course, people on the management side who may be aware of this conflict in themselves, but it is probably nothing like so sharp, the Admass spoils being greater for them and their instinctive feeling not being so strong.
當然，在經理人員中也有人可能意識到這種矛盾在自己身上也存在，但大概不會那么尖銳，因為通過商業廣告推銷，他們得利較大，而他們的本能感覺又不那么強烈。
The common people have clung harder to tradition than any other class.
除了這種矛盾外，還有別的東西在使比較有勢力的工會里的不少官員和會員感到不安。
In addition to this conflict, all the more worrying because it is hardly ever openly discussed, there is something else that must disturb many officials and members of the more powerful trade unions.
由于這種東西幾乎從來不公開討論，因此更令人擔心。
This is the anomalous position of these huge organizations.
這就是這些龐大組織的異常地位。
What exactly are they? One day they describe themselves as existing simply to negotiate rates of pay, hours and conditions of work.
這些組織到底是什么呢?一會兒他們說他們的存在就是為了談判工資額、工作時間和工作條件，
Another day they talk and behave as if the country was moving towards syndicalism and they were in the van.
一會兒他們的言論和行為似乎預示著這個國家正在走向工聯主義，而他們就是先鋒。
