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Sam set out to improve efficiency at the shirt factory but, as we find out later in this unit, his plans turned out not quite as he had expected.
薩姆著手提高襯衫廠的效率了，但正如我們將在本單元后半部分發(fā)現(xiàn)的，他的計(jì)劃實(shí)施結(jié)果跟他原先預(yù)料的并不完全一樣。
Sam Adams, Industrial Engineer
工業(yè)管理工程師薩姆·亞當(dāng)斯
If you ask my mother how I happened to become an industrial engineer, she'll tell you that I have always been one.
如果你問(wèn)我母親，我怎么偏偏會(huì)成為一名工業(yè)管理工程師的，她就會(huì)告訴你，我一直就是這樣一個(gè)人。
She means that I have always wanted everything to be well organized and neat. When I was still in elementary school, I liked to keep my socks in the upper left-hand drawer of my bureau, my underwear in the upper right drawer, shirts in the middle drawer, and pants, neatly folded, in the bottom drawer.
她的意思是說(shuō)，我一貫希望把樣樣?xùn)|西都安排得井井有條，整整齊齊。還在上小學(xué)時(shí)，我就喜歡把襪子放在衣柜左上方的抽屜里，內(nèi)衣放在右上方的抽屜里，襯衫放在當(dāng)中的抽屜里，折得齊齊整整的褲子放在最下面的抽屜里。
In fact, I was the efficiency expert for the whole family. I used to organize my father's tools, my mother's kitchen utensils, my sister's boyfriends.
事實(shí)上，我那時(shí)一直是全家人的效率專家。父親的工具、母親的廚房用具以及姐姐的男朋友全由我統(tǒng)一安排。
I needed to be efficient. I wanted to be well organized. For me, there was a place for everything and everything was always in its place. These qualities gave me a good foundation for a career in industrial engineering.
我需要講究效率。我希望有條不紊。對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)，樣樣?xùn)|西都有個(gè)固定的地方，樣樣?xùn)|西總是放在適當(dāng)?shù)牡胤健＿@些素質(zhì)為我日后從事工業(yè)管理打下了良好的基礎(chǔ)。
Unfortunately, I was also a bit bossy and I wasn't a very good listener. You'll see what I mean when I tell you about the first project I ever did after I finished my bachelor's degree at the university.
遺憾的是，我這個(gè)人也有一點(diǎn)專橫，不太善于聽(tīng)取別人的意見(jiàn)。等我把在大學(xué)取得學(xué)士學(xué)位后承辦第一項(xiàng)工程的情況告訴你以后，你就會(huì)明白我這話是什么意思了。
