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First Day: Give Us 15 Minutes a Day
第一天：每天给我们15分钟
Wilfred Funk and Norman Lewis
威尔弗雷德·芬克 诺曼·刘易斯
Your boss has a bigger vocabulary than you have.
你的老板词汇量比你大。
That's one good reason why he's your boss.
这就是他成为你的老板的一条非常充足的理由。
This discovery has been made in the word laboratories of the world. Not by theoretical English professors, but by practical, hard-headed scholars who have been searching for the secrets of success.
这一发现是在世界各地的词汇研究室里作出的。发现者并非精于理论的英语教授，而是一些讲究实际、头脑清醒、一直在探寻成功奧秘的学者。
After a host of experiments and years of testing they have found out:
经过大量实验和多年检测，他们发现：
That if your vocabulary is limited your chances of success are limited.
如果你的词汇有限，你成功的机会也有限。
That one of the easiest and quickest ways to get ahead is by consciously building up your knowledge of words.
获得成功最容易、最迅速的方法之一就是有意识地扩大你的词汇知识。
That the vocabulary of the average person almost stops growing by the middle twenties.
一般人的词汇到25岁左右就几乎停止增长了。
And that from then on it is necessary to have an intelligent plan if progress is to be made. No haphazard hit-or-miss methods will do.
从那以后，如要取得进步就必须有一个明智的计划。漫无计划，随随便便的方法是不行的。
It has long since been satisfactorily established that a high executive does not have a large vocabulary merely because of the opportunities of his position. That would be putting thecart before the horse. Quite the reverse is true. His skill in words was a tremendous helpin getting him his job.
早就有人令人满意地证实，髙级主管人员之所以拥有大量词汇，并非仅仅因为其所处的地位给了他许多机会。那样看就本末倒置了。事实正好相反。他运用词语的技能对他找到工作是个极大的帮助。
