英語四級(jí)必讀美文17：什么樣的公司最受雇員喜歡

What Makes a Company Great to Work For

什么樣的公司最受雇員喜歡

It may be hard to imagine, but there is a better place to work than Google.

有比谷歌還理想的雇主嗎?難于想象，但這樣的公司不是沒有。

That's what Fortune magazine says, anyway, in its latest annual list of the 100 Best Companies 10 Work For. The winner is NetApp, a 5,000 employee data-storage company based in Sunnyvale, Calif. NetApp helped topple the previous list-leader, Google, to No. 4 on the Fortune Iist from its usual No. 1. (1) Financial-services firm Edward Jones, known for its small-city offices and personal touch with clients， is No. 2, and the Boston Consulting Group, a big management consulting firm, came in third.

《財(cái)富》雜志在最新的年度排行榜《最佳雇主100強(qiáng)》當(dāng)中就是這么說的。摘得桂冠的是NetApp，一家總部位于美國(guó)加州森尼維爾的數(shù)據(jù)存儲(chǔ)公司，雇員有 5000人。去年高居榜首、通?？偸悄玫谝坏墓雀瑁瑒t被擠到了第四的位置。(1)金融服務(wù)公司愛德華·瓊斯獲得亞軍，很多人都知道這家辦公室分布在小城市的公司和對(duì)客戶的人性化。波士頓咨詢公司位居第三，這是一家大型管理咨詢公司。

What makes NetApp so great? Its egalitarian culture, Fortune says-which seems likely to make employees' juggles a lot easier. For example, business travelers often suffer jet lag or exhaustion trying to take the cheapest flights to save their employers money. Mindful of the problem, NetApp management ditched a travel policy a dozen pages long in favor of a simple maxim: "We are a frugal company. But don't show up dog-tired to save a few bucks. Use your common sense," the policy says, according to Fortune. Other perks include several that promise to improve work-family-community balance, such as five paid days off for volunteer work and $11 ,390 for adoption assistance. NetApp

為什么NetApp這么強(qiáng)?《財(cái)富》說，這是由于它的平等主義文化一一看來這種文化很容易俘獲員工的心。例如，為給雇主省錢、總是乘坐最便宜航班的出差員工，常常受到時(shí)差和疲勞的困擾?？紤]到這個(gè)問題， NetApp的管理層制定了一項(xiàng)差旅政策，10來頁的篇幅總結(jié)起來也就是一句話，按《財(cái)富》的引述是：“我們是一家節(jié)儉的公司，但不要為省幾塊錢而以筋疲力竭的形象示人。運(yùn)用常識(shí)做事”其他好規(guī)定中，有幾條許諾要增進(jìn)工作·家庭·社區(qū)的平衡，比如有5天帶薪假用于志愿工作，還提供11390美元的收養(yǎng)補(bǔ)助。

But don't bother to apply for a job there. NetApp has 45,898 applications pending for 55 openings, Fortune says-producing odds only slightly better than winning Powerball.

但不要?jiǎng)谏袢ミ@家公司找工作了?！敦?cái)富》說， NetApp有55個(gè)空缺崗位，但有45898人排隊(duì)申請(qǐng)，成功機(jī)會(huì)只比強(qiáng)力球彩票的中獎(jiǎng)幾率高一點(diǎn)。

(2)Thinking back over the six employers 1 have worked for, the one that has kept me happiest, longest, has offered me more training, more new challenges and more pay increases than the others. The culture at this employer-my current one-has been a factor too，including the collegial atmosphere and emphasis on high professional standards.

(2)回顧我工作過的6家公司，讓我最快樂，工作時(shí)間最久的那一家，給我的培訓(xùn)、新挑戰(zhàn)和漲工資的次數(shù)都比其他幾家多。這家公司就是我現(xiàn)在就職的這一家，其文化也是一個(gè)因素，包括它學(xué)院式的氛圍，以及對(duì)高專業(yè)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的強(qiáng)調(diào)。

四級(jí)句型講解

1. Financial-services firm Edward Jones. known for its small-city offices and personal touch with clients, is No. 2, and the Boston Consulting Group, a big management consulting firm, came in third.

本句是由and連接的兩個(gè)簡(jiǎn)單句。第一個(gè)句子中known for...clients 過去分詞短語作后置定語，修飾Edward Jones.第二個(gè)句子中a big management consulting firm 是the Boston Consulting Group的同位語，起補(bǔ)充說明的作用。

語法重點(diǎn)：分詞短語作定語，同位語

2. Thinking back over the six employers I have worked for, the one that has kept me happiest, longest, has offered me more training, more new challenges and more pay increases than the others.

本句是一個(gè)復(fù)合句。 Thinking back...worked for現(xiàn)在分詞短語作狀語，其中I have worked for是省略了引導(dǎo)詞的定語從句，修飾the six employers。后面that引導(dǎo)限制性定語從句，修飾the one。

語法重點(diǎn)：定語從句