【正文】 o give each of themd doze off, and the instant that happened they39。t answer. He was right. How long can a man stay awake? I hadn39。t hold out forever! You39。 Barrett said in his harsh, craked voice, You39。n39。d e to hate my guts. Barratte, who39。i had to shoot at such close quarters, I wouldn39。d sat most of the twenty days of our drifting,I could keep them all covered. Ifs! after after I kept the gun pointed at the other nine man. From the lifeboat39。inorder to get it moving.綜二lesson4 Take Over, Bon39。it inseveral people can confer together without moving from their desks, even in widely scattered a big country that ,too ,is important. new arrivals will e from cultures where it is considered impolite to work too a certain amount of time is allowed to elapse, it seems in their eyes as if the task being considered were insignificant,not worthy of proper are thus felt to be given added weight by the passage of time. In the .,however itis taken as a sign of petence to solve a problem,or fullfill a job succesfully, with rapideity. Usually,the more important a task is, the more capital, energy,and attention will be poured intos. to shop and to obtaion all kinds of save your feet and endless amounts of is due partly to the fact that the telephone service is good here, whereas the postal service is less , the costs of secretarial labor printing,and stamps are all soaring .The telephone is quick. We like it . We can do our business and get an answer in a matter of moments. Furthermore, much less do they take them out for dinner, or around on the golf course while they develop a sense of trust and rapport.Rapport to us is less important then seek out evidence of past performance then evalute a business college through social courtesies. Since we generally acess and probe prefessionally rather than socially,we start talking business very quickly. Americans live according to time segments laid out in engagement calendars may be be devided into intervals as short as fifteen often give a person two or three(or more) segments of my calendar,but in the business world we almost always have other appointments following hard on the heels of whatever we are doing is therefore always ticking in our inner ear. a result we work hard at the task of saving produce a steady flow of laborsaving devices。t take it is because people value time highly,and they resent someone else wasting it beyond a certain courtesy point. view of time affects the importance we attach to the American system of values ,patience is not a high priority. Many of us have what might be called a short fuse. We begin to move restlessly about if we feel time is slipping away without some return——be this in terms of pleasure, work value,or rest. Those ing from lands where time is looked upon differenetly may find this matter of pace to be one of their most difficult adjustments in both business and daily life. newers to the states will miss the opening courtitesies of a business call, for example. They will miss the ritual socializing that goes with a weling cup of tea or coffee that may be traditional in their own country. They may miss leisurely business chats in a cafe or coffee house. Normally, Americans don39。to be hurrying to get where they are going,restlessly seeking attention in a store,elbowing others as they try to plete their through daytime meals is considered in public eating places are waiting for you to finish so they too can be served and get back to work within the time person hurries to make room for the next you don39。s first impression to the is likely to be that everyone is in a rushoften under people appear always thirty seconds is disastrous. A guest who’s got to stop to think about everything he says before the opens his mouth is a ratings nightmare.” This kind of attitude rewards smooth, insincere talk, and makes hesitancy look like stupidity. “we wouldn’t have used George Washington on our show. ” says one talent coordinator. “he might have been first in the hearts of his countrymen, but today he’d be dragging his bottom in the ratings.”lesson3 Go Go AmericansGoGo AmericansAlison R. Lanier believe no one stands you are not moving ahead,you are falling attitude of time results in a nation of people mitted to researching,experimenting and is one of the two elments Americans save carefully,the other being labor.2We are slaves to nothing but the clock.it has been is trated as if it were something almost budget it,save it,waste it,steal it,kill it,cut it,account for it, we also charge for is a precious modity. Many people have a rather accute sence of the shortness of each the sands have run out of a person39。 the celebrity is a big name.” There is another distinction: heroes inspire respect。 the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself。ve acquired a source of enjoyment and excitement for the rest of your days. In a world as tightly connected as ours is, don39。Like all deep experiences, it may take a little work on your part to discover what all the fuss is about. But once you make the effort, your life has changed。 Culture. some exposure to the great works of liturature, art and music. If such a work is hundreds or thousands of years old and is still admired, there is probably something to it.m Talking about. Don39。s special theory of relativity, far from being obscure and exceptionally difficult, can be understood in its basics with no more than firstyear algebra, and the notion of a rowboat in a river going upstream and downstream.)Science and technology. can39。t understand the issues, we abandon the future.re changing the atmosphere, the surface, the waters of the Earth, often for some shortterm advantage when the longterm implications are unknow. The citizens of any country should have at least something to say about the direction in which we39。Know your planet39。s understanding is inplete. Be open to correct