??2023考研类别中，许多考生认为外语难度比照大，特别是在阅览有些体现的较为显着，在预备的进程中会遇到林林总总的疑问。为了便利我们预备考研英语，下面新东方修改为我们收拾了“2023考研英语阅览操练堆集：无意义的作业为何存在”，期望能给我们供给一些协助。

2023考研英语阅览操练堆集：无意义的作业为何存在

??Imagine having a job that pays you 12，000 pounds to write a two-pagereport for a big company meeting where the document is never discussed.

愿望一下，你接了一项作业，为一个大型公司会议写一份两页的陈述，你拿到了1.2万英镑的酬劳，成果那次会议根柢没有谈论这份陈述。

Or a job that requires you to rent a car and drive up to 500km to oversee aperson’s computer being moved five metres from one room to another.

或许，你需要租辆车开上500公里，担任监督一自个的电脑被从一个房间挪到5米外的另一个房间。

What about being a receptionist in a publishing company where the phonerings once a day and your only other tasks are filling a dish with mints andwinding a grandfather clock once a week?

或许在一家出书公司其时台，电话每天响一次，此外你只需要把盘子装满薄荷糖，以及一周给一台老爷钟上一次发条。

These nuggets are strewn through David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs， aprovocative， funny and engaging book that claims the world has been engulfed bya rising tide of pointless work.

这样的作业在戴维格雷伯(David Graeber)的作品《论狗屁作业》(BullshitJobs)里举目皆是。这本发人沉思又饶有诙谐的书声称，世界上处处是没有意义的作业，而且越来越多。

This is a curious charge to hear at a time of rising anxiety about keepingone’s job safe from a robot， or the indignities of the gig economy and sweepingtechnological

disruption. Yet it clearly has appeal.

当今我们日益焦虑该如何在机器人、不体面的零工经济，以及科技带来的广泛损坏性影响下保住自个的作业，在这样的布景下，格雷伯的控诉听起来很新鲜。可是，这本书显着是有招引力的。

If Graeber’s idea sounds familiar， it is because the book is based on a2013 essay he wrote for a radical magazine called Strike! that was such a hit itcrashed the publication’s website and was translated into a dozen languageswithin weeks.

假定格雷伯的观念听起来似曾相识，是因为这本书是由格雷伯在2013年为急进杂志《Strike!》撰写的一篇文章延伸而来。其时那篇文章非常抢手，一度致使该杂志网站溃散。在几个星期里，这篇文章就被译为十几种言语。

The Economist published a critique of it. Adverts quoting it appeared inthe London Underground. Eventually， pollsters based a UK survey on it showingthat 37 per cent of people did not believe their job made “a meaningfulcontribution to the world”. A Dutch poll later came up with similar results.

《经济学人》专门宣告了谈论文章。引证这篇文章的广告呈如今伦敦地铁里。后来，英国对这个疑问进行的有关民意查询闪现，37%的人不

认为他们的作业“为世界作出了有意义的奉献”。接着，荷兰的一份民意查询也得出了类似成果。

For Graeber， an American anthropology professor at the London School ofEconomics， this confirmed he was on to something big about 21st-centurycapitalism： it looked a lot like 20th-century Soviet socialism， generatingmyriad pointless jobs to keep workers employed.

格雷伯是伦敦政治经济学院(LSE)的美籍人类学教授。格雷伯认为，这证明他发现了21世纪本钱主义的某种严峻特征：许多没有意义的作业被创造出来，只为了让我们得到雇佣，这看起来很像是20世纪的苏联社会主义。

Given how that particular venture ended， this is a worrying prospect.

思考到苏联社会主义的结局，将来的打开令人担忧。

And if it is indeed happening， it is bizarre. Capitalism is supposed todeliver efficiency.

假定作业真的是这样，那就很新鲜了。本钱主义被认为理应会带来功率。

Technological advances are supposed to mean we spend less time at work ofany sort (in 1930 John Maynard Keynes suggested it could be as little as 15hours a week).

跟着技能前进，咱们在任何类型的作业上花费的时刻大约更少(约翰梅纳德凯恩斯在1930年猜

测，将来我们每周只需作业15个小时)。

Even if this has yet to materialise， the idea that much in the modernoffice is maddening is hardly new： in 2021 it will be 30 years since newspapersbegan to publish Dilbert， the satirical take on the corporate workplace thatbecame one of the world’s most popular comic strips.

即便这种情况还没有变成实际，有关现代职场越来越张狂的主意并不新鲜：到2021年，漫画《呆伯特》在报纸上的连载时刻就会抵达30年。这部以讥讽办法描绘职场表象的作品变成了世界最受等待的连环漫画之一。

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