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①SISYPHUS, king of Corinth, was condemned for all eternity to push a boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll down again. David Graeber, an anthropologist, thinks that many modern workers face the same fate today, forced to perform pointless tasks, or “bullshit jobs”, as his new book* calls them.
②格雷伯把胡说八道的工作定义为完全没有意义、不必要或有害的工作，甚至员工自己也无法证明它有理由存在，但他们可能不得不假装相信自己的工作使命。This definition, and indeed much of the book, combines two categories of roles. In the first are jobs that Mr Graeber tends to think are socially worthless, such as corporate lawyers or investment bankers. (Some of those workers may take an equally dim view of the utility of anthropologists.) In the second group are jobs where employees find themselves with little or nothing to do and, worse, must still look as if they are frantically busy.
③Nor are feelings of boredom and pointless activity confined to the arena of work. 任何上过小学的人都会记得被迫写作文或参加考试的经历。主题或科目既无聊又无用。Indeed, many teachers are probably as bored marking the schoolwork as pupils are producing it.
④In other words, there is no need for Mr Graeber to construct elaborate theories about neoliberal conspiracies to explain the phenomenon of wasted effort. Parkinson nailed the issue six decades ago: “Officials make work for each other.”
(注:段落截取，不一定是连续段落)
Today’s task
1.SISYPHUS, king of Corinth, was condemned for all eternity to push a boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll down again.
2.In the second group are jobs where employees find themselves with little or nothing to do and, worse, must still look as if they are frantically busy.
3.In other words, there is no need for Mr Graeber to construct elaborate theories about neoliberal conspiracies to explain the phenomenon of wasted effort.
4.格雷伯把胡说八道的工作定义为完全没有意义、不必要或有害的工作，甚至员工自己也无法证明它有理由存在，但他们可能不得不假装相信自己的工作使命。
5.任何上过小学的人都会记得被迫写作文或参加考试的经历。主题或科目既无聊又无用。
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