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First Day: Give Us 15 Minutes a Day
第一天：每天給我們15分鐘
Wilfred Funk and Norman Lewis
威爾弗雷德·芬克 諾曼·劉易斯
Your boss has a bigger vocabulary than you have.
你的老板詞匯量比你大。
That's one good reason why he's your boss.
這就是他成為你的老板的一條非常充足的理由。
This discovery has been made in the word laboratories of the world. Not by theoretical English professors, but by practical, hard-headed scholars who have been searching for the secrets of success.
這一發現是在世界各地的詞匯研究室里作出的。發現者并非精于理論的英語教授，而是一些講究實際、頭腦清醒、一直在探尋成功奧秘的學者。
After a host of experiments and years of testing they have found out:
經過大量實驗和多年檢測，他們發現：
That if your vocabulary is limited your chances of success are limited.
如果你的詞匯有限，你成功的機會也有限。
That one of the easiest and quickest ways to get ahead is by consciously building up your knowledge of words.
獲得成功最容易、最迅速的方法之一就是有意識地擴大你的詞匯知識。
That the vocabulary of the average person almost stops growing by the middle twenties.
一般人的詞匯到25歲左右就幾乎停止增長了。
And that from then on it is necessary to have an intelligent plan if progress is to be made. No haphazard hit-or-miss methods will do.
從那以后，如要取得進步就必須有一個明智的計劃。漫無計劃，隨隨便便的方法是不行的。
It has long since been satisfactorily established that a high executive does not have a large vocabulary merely because of the opportunities of his position. That would be putting thecart before the horse. Quite the reverse is true. His skill in words was a tremendous helpin getting him his job.
早就有人令人滿意地證實，髙級主管人員之所以擁有大量詞匯，并非僅僅因為其所處的地位給了他許多機會。那樣看就本末倒置了。事實正好相反。他運用詞語的技能對他找到工作是個極大的幫助。
