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　　Dissatisfactions at Work

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　　For most of us, the work is the central,

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　　dominating factor of life.

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　　We spend more than half our conscious hours at work,

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　　traveling to and from work.

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　　What we do there largely determines our standard of living

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　　and to a considerable extent the status

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　　we are accorded by our fellow citizens as well.

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　　It is sometimes said that because leisure has become more important,

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　　the indignities and injustices of work can be pushed into a corner,

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　　that because more work is pretty intolerable,

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　　the people who do it should compensate for its boredom,

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　　frustrations and humiliations by concentrating their hopes

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　　on the other parts of their lives.

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　　I reject that as a counsel of despair.

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　　For the foreseeable future the material

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　　and psychological rewards which work can provide,

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　　and the conditions in which work is done,

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　　will continue to play a vital part in determining the satisfaction

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　　that life can offer.

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　　Yet only a small minority can control the pace

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　　at which they work or the conditions in which their work is done;

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　　only for a small minority does work offer scope for creativity,

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　　imagination or initiative.

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　　Inequality at work and in work is still one of the cruelest

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　　and most glaring forms of inequality in our society.

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　　We cannot hope to solve the more obvious problems of industrial life,

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　　many of which arise directly or indirectly

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　　from the frustrations created by inequality at work,

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　　unless we tackle it head-on.

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　　Still less can we hope to create a decent and humane society.

英语四级美文听力原文|2018年英语四级美文：Dissatisfactions at Work

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