It is hoped that the reader will be helped to avoid some of my pitfalls.

本书可以帮助读者避免在某些方面重蹈笔者覆辙。

(She proceeded to remunerate your columnist with a free haircut.) In a world of business that is increasingly dominated by amorphous, ever-changing markets, the interaction might sound familiar to managers, and many of their subordinates.

（然后她用一次免费理发给笔者付了酬劳。）在一个越来越被无定形、不断变化市场所主导商业世界里，管理者和他们许多下属可能对这种互动感觉很熟悉。

It was now full of articles about how to repel Dementors, attempts by the Ministry to track down Death Eaters and hysterical letters claimingthat the writer had seen Lord Voldemort walking past their house that very morning . . .

报纸上净是一些关于如何击退摄魂怪，魔法部试图追捕食死徒？？诸如此类文章，还有一些歇斯底里来信，称笔者在某某一天一大清早，曾见到伏地魔王从他们家房前经过。

Bartleby's father was never happier than when, after retiring from his job as a headmaster, he was able to spend his time reading, gardening and listening to Mozart.

让笔者父亲最高兴是，他从校长职位上退休之后，能够花些时间阅读、园艺以及听莫扎特音乐。

Before naming a word of the year, Johnson turns to colleagues to find out what those in different fields and in various countries are talking about.

在确定年度词汇之前，笔者问了下同事们，看看不同领域和不同国家人们都在谈论什么。

As a onetime contributor to the BBC, it is easy to imagine Orwell defying the broadcaster's refusal to use the word " terrorism" .

笔者作曾经BBC撰稿写作者，不难想象奥威尔会如何对BBC拒绝使用“恐怖主义”一词而表示蔑视。

Murder cases, where prosecutors argue that a parent left a child in a hot car with the intent to kill, are almost unheard-of.

到目前止，笔者还几乎未曾听说检察官父母把孩子留在温度较高车内是意图杀害孩子谋杀案件。

But to me Caruso is more than a high-energy player. He just does smart things, with and without the ball, on both ends.

但是我（笔者）鲁索不仅仅是一个只在短期内贡献高能量球员。他在场上无论是打持球还是打无球，无论是进攻还是防守，都只做聪明选择。

Your columnist, a guest Bartleby, has amassed 6,315 connections, of whom she actually knows maybe 300.

笔者已经积累了6315个人脉，其中真正识可能也就300人。

For that reason, this columnist can perhaps be forgiven for hoping that the office romance does not disappear completely.

因此，大家要原谅笔者，笔者办公室恋情不会完全消失。

So it's really in line with the culture of the pen user that it's irrational and strange.

所以这与用笔者文化是一致，这是非理性和奇怪。

About a decade ago, this correspondent attended a banquet in Guangzhou.

大约十年前，笔者在广州参加了一次宴会。

From the author's point of view, why should we stay positive when it comes to luck?

在笔者看来，运气什么要保持乐观呢？

(" Don't you ever do that again, " she warned.) Johnson repeated the experiment with his own mother, who did not miss a beat in replying to clone-Johnson.

(“别再干这种事了。”她警告说。)笔者和自己母亲重复了这个实验，母亲在回答克隆语音时没有一丝怀疑。

Bartleby remembers lying on the sofa recovering from a stomach bug in New York 17 years ago, undisturbed by colleagues and untroubled by thoughts of work.

笔者还记得17年前在纽约时候，因胃病躺在沙发上，既没有同事打扰，也不受工作困扰。

But Bagehot would nevertheless suggest adding a fourth book to his pile-Julian Jackson's " A Certain Idea of France: The Life of De Gaulle" .

但是笔者还是建议在他书集里再加上第四本书——朱利安·杰克逊《法国一个想法: 夏尔·戴高乐生活》。

He has, admittedly, never worked in a factory, and thus feels no nostalgia for hard hats and high-vis vests.

笔者确实从未在工厂工作过，因此对安全帽和反光背心也没有什么怀旧之情。

Bartleby posts only her columns (such as this one) with zero commentary.

巴托比只发布笔者专栏文章(比如这篇)，没有任何评论。

(This columnist has a particular weakness for salty potato crisps.) And there is much to cheer about calories being cheap and abundant, when for most of human history they were neither.

(笔者特别喜欢咸薯片。)在人类历史大部分时间里，路里既便宜又丰富，这有很多值得欢呼地方。

Bartleby was fortunate enough to meet his spouse through his job 24 years ago (a period that proves Mrs Bartleby's infinite reserves of patience).

在24年前，笔者有幸通过工作识了自己配偶（这段时间证明了笔者夫人有着无限耐心）。