看经济学人学雅思写作--原文翻译+经典句式+重点词汇（中）

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。

Yet according to the research, managers who fondly believe in their own exceptional qualities are among the worst performers. It is the ones who underestimate how good they are who turn out to be best at their jobs. And the more they under-rate themselves, the higher other people rate them, and the better work they do.

但是根据这项研究，那些盲目相信自己拥有过人才能的经理人业绩往往最差。反而是低估自己才能的管理者的工作表现最佳。而且他们对自己的评价越低，其他人对他们的评价就越高，他们的工作表现就更好。

【经典句式】

believe in sth 相信

exceptional卓越的

…are among the worst … ……是最差的之一

underestimate低估

turn out to be … 最终……

under-rate低估

the more … the more …越……越……

rate打分

When you think about it, perhaps this isn’t so surprising. It is the Bill Nighy effect.

如果你仔细想想，或许这并不奇怪。这就是比尔•奈伊(Bill Nighy)效应。

A few years ago I interviewed the British actor who spent the full 90 minutes telling me how much he frets about being useless.When the interview was over, he even started to fret about having been useless in the interview —so much so, that the next day he turned up at my office wanting to do it all over again. Where has such fretting got him? Quite a long way: it has helped him become one of the finest actors of a certain age in Britain — and meant that everyone who interviews him loves him.

几年前我采访过这位英国演员，他花了整整一个半小时告诉我，他多么担心自己百无一用。采访结束后，他甚至开始担心自己在采访中一无是处，以至于第二天他出现在我的办公室想要再来一遍。这些担心对他有什么影响呢?影响很大：帮助他成为英国同年龄段最优秀的演员之一，而且让所有采访过他的人都喜欢上了他。

【经典句式】

fret担心

interview采访

turn up出现

I realised a long time ago that the only way to be passably good as a columnist is to be fairly sure that deep down you’re feeble. Indeed, the more confident you are of your feebleness, the harder youhave to try, and therefore the better the work you produce.

很久以前我就认识到，想成为一名还算不错的专栏作家，唯一的方法就是确信自己在内心深处是个软弱的人。的确，你越相信自己软弱无能，你就只能更加努力，这样你的工作成绩就会更出色。

【经典句式】

columnist专栏作家

feeble软弱的

feebleness软弱无能

【犀利观点】缺乏自信让人更努力：

Indeed, the more confident you are of your feebleness, the harder you have to try, and therefore the better the work you produce.