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The answer to every question was the same: no. That left me with only one other question: How well prepared would this person be if he were to call on a prospective customer for us? I already knew the answer.他可曾在就讀的大學(xué)里查問(wèn)過(guò)有沒(méi)有校友在本公司就職,以便向他們了解一些情況?他可曾請(qǐng)朋友向他提問(wèn),對(duì)他進(jìn)行模擬面試?可曾去圖書(shū)館查找過(guò)有關(guān)本公司的剪報(bào)?他事先有沒(méi)有寫(xiě)封信來(lái)介紹自己,告訴我們自己為這次面試在做哪些準(zhǔn)備,自己何以能勝任此項(xiàng)工作?面試之后他是否打算再寫(xiě)一封信,表明自己加盟本公司的誠(chéng)意?這封信會(huì)不會(huì)在面試后的24小時(shí)之內(nèi)送到我們手上,也許甚至是親自送來(lái)?他對(duì)上述每一個(gè)問(wèn)題的回答全都一樣:沒(méi)有。這樣我就只剩一個(gè)問(wèn)題要問(wèn)了:如果此人代表本公司去見(jiàn)可能成為我們客戶(hù)的人,他準(zhǔn)備工作會(huì)做得怎樣?答案不言自明。Unit4Unit51 For thirty years now I have been studying my fellowmen. I do not know very much about them. I shrug my shoulders when people tell me that their first impressions of a person are always right. I think they must have small insight or great vanity. For my own part I find that the longer I know people the more they puzzle me.三十年來(lái),我一直研究我的人類(lèi)同胞,但至今了解不多。每當(dāng)有人跟我說(shuō)他對(duì)一個(gè)人的第一次印象向來(lái)不錯(cuò)的時(shí)候,我就聳聳肩。我想這種人不是無(wú)知,就是自大。拿我自己來(lái)說(shuō),我發(fā)現(xiàn),認(rèn)識(shí)一個(gè)人的時(shí)間越長(zhǎng),我就越感到困惑。2 These reflections have occurred to me because I read in this morning39。s paper that Edward Hyde Burton had died at Kobe. He was a merchant and he had been in business in Japan for many years. I knew him very little, but he interested me because once he gave me a great surprise. Unless I had heard the story from his own lips, I should never have believed that he was capable of such an action. It was more startling because both in appearance and manner he suggested a very definite type. Here if ever was a man all of a piece. He was a tiny little fellow, not much more than five feet four in height, and very slender, with white hair, a red face much wrinkled, and blue eyes. I suppose he was about sixty when I knew him. He was always neatly and quietly dressed in accordance with his age and station.我產(chǎn)生這些想法,是因?yàn)槲以诮裉煸缟系膱?bào)紙上看到愛(ài)德華海德伯頓在神戶(hù)去世的消息。他是個(gè)商人,在日本經(jīng)商多年。我跟他并不熟,但是對(duì)他