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corporate-couple A counter productive attempt
適得其反的嘗試
The corporation was too close to the city council for its own good.
為了自身的利益公司離 市政委員會太近了.
The relationship was cosy with the suspicion of corrupt dealings too likely.
關系太密切,很可能讓 人懷疑有腐敗交易.
And it was becoming costly;
這給公司帶來了很大 的損失
the Corporation's public approval was declining.
公司的公眾支持率在 不斷下降.
Mike Danner,an accountant in the office,
辦公室會計邁克·丹納 看出了這一點,
could see this and he decided that he had to try and fix it.
認為他得努力解決這 個問題.
As he walked down
當他走過
the corridors of the cosmopolitan building where he worked,
他工作的國際性建筑的 走廊的時候,
he knew that an argument with the president would be counterproductive.
他明白與總裁爭論會產 生相反的結果.
He had to find a way of counseling the president
他得想辦法勸告總裁：
that he needed distance from his counterpart in the local government.
他有必要與當地政府中 地位和他相對應的人保 持距離.
They were an odd couple,he and the mayor; corective measures were needed
總裁和市長是奇怪的一 對,需要采取矯正措施
But Mike Danner
但邁克·丹納
never thought that there would be any true corresponding crime.
從沒想過真的會有 相關的犯罪.
Counterfeit money was being produced in the back offices of the corporate parking lot
公司停車場后面的辦公 室正在印偽鈔,
and shipped to the city council in corrugate boxes
并用起皺的紙箱運往市 政委員會
where the mayor would countersign their authenticity.
在那里市長要給它們辨 明真偽.
The corpus of the council knew this. He was walking into the fire!
市政委員會所有人都知 道這件事,他是在玩火
The next day,when his body was found with his cortex pealed from his head
第二天,當丹納頭皮被 剝掉的尸體被人發現的 時候,
the press never thought to correlate his murder
新聞界根本就沒想到 把他的被殺
with a controversy surrounding the corporation and the city council.
和圍繞公司與市政委員 會的爭議聯系到一起,
Instead they created a cosmetic motive
他們反倒編造了一個表 面動機,
for a local drug dealer to be put in prison on false charges.
以莫須有的罪名把當地 的一個毒品販子關進了 監獄.
The Chief of Police was involved in the counterfeit deal as well.
警察局長也卷入了偽 鈔案中,
And he wasn't about to sacrifice the college money for his three kids
他可不會犧牲三個孩子 上大學的學費.
for some curious corporate office boy.
為了某個好奇的 公司勤雜員.
