【精英翻譯】的部落格

◎陳成良

The bigger a CEO’s signature the more likely he or she is to be a narcissist, a new study claims.

一位執行長的簽名寫得越大，他（她）越可能是自戀狂，一項研究聲稱。

The research which compared the signatures of some 605 CEOs of US firms found that size does matter where boss’s autographs are concerned.

該研究比較了605位美國公司的執行長簽名，發現上司的簽名大小確實關係重大。

It found that bosses with bigger signatures also tended to get the highest pay, but were in fact more likely to run their companies into the ground.

研究發現，簽名更大字的上司通常能得到最高的薪水，但事實上也更可能把公司搞垮。

The study by academics at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina took the signatures of CEOs from company accounts filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

北卡羅萊納大學克南—弗拉格勒商學院學者所做的這項研究，從公司提交到美國證券交易委員會的帳目，蒐集執行長的簽名。

The authors identify narcissism as an egotistical character trait ’associated with conceit and disregard for others’.

研究作者將自戀定義為「帶有自負和漠視他人的」一種自我中心的性格特質。

’Similarly, narcissism creates biased self-perception in the form of upwardly biased evaluation of one’s own abilities and performance,’ they say in the paper.

「同樣，自戀會造成自我認知的偏差，具體表現形式是對個人自身能力和表現會有偏高的評價」，他們在論文中寫道。

These qualities make them bad decision makers, the study says, but enables them to convince directors and shareholders of their competency to the extent that they get better pay.

研究稱，這些特質會使他們做出不明智的決定，但也能使董事和股東信服他們的能力，發給他們更高薪水。

新聞辭典

autograph： 名詞，親筆簽名。

run ... into the ground：片語，把……弄糟。例句：You will run this hotel into the ground. （你會把這家飯店搞得一團糟的。）

egotistical：形容詞，自我本位的；自負的。例句：An overbearing stare can make you appear arrogant and egotistical. （擺架子看人會讓別人覺得你傲慢而自負。）

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