看经济学人学雅思写作--招聘该看成绩单吗？ （二）

摘要：本文为大家详细分析一篇经济学人杂志的文章，不仅有中文翻译，还总结了大量适用于雅思写作的万用经典句式和高分词汇，对于正在备考雅思写作的同学们来说是绝佳的复习资料。详情见文章。

TOPIC：教育;成功;成绩;

场景：

教育 & 职业：成绩高低能衡量个人能力、预测职业成功吗?

高等教育：象牙塔;好好学习 vs. 实习;

学术 vs. 其他能力：情商;社会经历;

【口语 + 写作】

【大作文+小作文】

Even if the result reflected hard graft (or lack of it) that still doesn’t prove that such slogging would continue into paid employment.

即使分数反映出他们在学校下了苦功(或者没下苦功)，这也不能证明这种刻苦会在有偿的工作岗位中延续下去。

【经典句式】

reflect反映

lack of缺乏

【犀利观点】成绩不能预测职业成功：全段

Most of us work much harder at some points in our lives than others. I know lots of people who idled their way through university and have been Stakhanovites ever since.

我们大多数人在人生的某些时候会比别人更刻苦努力。我认识很多在大学里混日子而在毕业后成为工作狂的人。

【经典句式】

idle游手好闲

Stakhanovite斯达汉诺夫式的工作者;工作狂

I bet they asked you to describe situations in which you showed leadership,or asked you to waffle on about creativity. At least a grade is a fact, and one that employers can process as they choose.

我敢打赌，他们会要求你描述你在哪些情况下展现了领导力，或者要求你大谈一番创造力。至少，学位等级是一个事实，而且是雇主在挑人时可以参考的一个事实。

【经典句式】

leadership领导力

waffle on大谈特谈

grade学位等级;分数

process处理

It’s possible that they didn’t want to hear that you got a top degree at all.

有可能他们根本不想听到你拿到了一个第一等的学位。

A couple of years ago the scientist Lord Winston announced that he only hired people with 2:1s. Anyone who did better than that, he reasoned,hadn’t spent enough time at university turning into the sort of broad, curious person he was looking for.

几年前，科学家罗伯特•温斯顿勋爵(Lord Robert Winston)宣布，他只雇佣拿到二等一级学位的人。他的理由是，任何学位等级比这高的人，都没有在大学里花足够的时间变成他在寻找的那种涉猎广泛、好奇心强的人。

【经典句式】

reason推论

turn into变成

broad广阔的

Inmy experience, the people who did are more than happy to tell employers — or anyone at all — just how well they did in perpetuity.

根据我的经验，那些拿到一等学位的人永远都万分情愿告诉雇主，或者任何人，他们从来都干得多么出色。

【经典句式】

in one’s experience根据…的经验

perpetuity永远