Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed1 her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.

麦克安德鲁太太精神抖擞，言谈举止表现得很有教养，但却很难掩饰她那根深蒂固偏见：如果你不是军人，就连站柜台职员还不如。

He worked as a clerk, and at that time he wrote his first short stories and scientific articles on space travel.

那时，还是职员他发表了一些早期作品，大多是关于太空旅行短篇和科学作品。

Just to be a clerk, like a sales clerk, but you end up getting hired as a manager.

只是应聘一个职员，像销售员，但最后你被聘为经理。

I am just a person in a cubicle, and I am doing the best I can, ma'am.

女士，我也只是个坐格子间职员，我已经尽力了。

The barrier surrounding the caisse comes as high as your chin and the caissier, who is generally nothing more than a minor bank clerk, sits on a stool and dips into his piles of notes and plaques.

caisse 周围高到你下巴， 而 caissier 通常只不过是一个银行职员， 坐在凳子上， 蘸着他成堆钞票和牌匾。

He was a little pale clerk with a delicate wife and puny baby, and Erica's heart was sore at the thought of having to take the coat from him, even for Tisdall.

他是个脸色苍白职员，有一个娇弱妻子和一个弱婴儿，埃里卡一想到不得不从他手里拿走外套，即使是为了蒂斯达尔，她心就痛。

I mean, when they bring you into those American colleges, they don't expect you to go off and work as a junior official in the Department of Land Tax afterwards.

我意思是， 当他们把你送进那些美国大学时，他们并不指望你毕业后去税务局土地税部门做个职员。

So he took a room in the household of the usual small government clerk with the usual plain daughters, and continued the study of the language.

于是，他在一个普通政府职员家里租了一个房间， 带着普通普通女儿， 继续学习语言。

The so-called technical expert is actually a patent examiner, and there are only three levels, so Einstein is the lowest level, which is a small clerk in the patent office.

所谓技术专家其实就是专利审查员，只有三个层次， 所以爱因斯坦就是最低层次，就是专利局里一个职员。

A hundred years ago, when I was very, very junior, I had to ring her up.

一百年前，当我还是个非常非常初级职员时，我不得不给她打电话。

I prefer working as a manager in small company to working as a clerk in a big one.

我喜欢在公司当经理胜过在大公司做职员。