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The human being longs for a sense of being accomplished, of being able to do things, with his hand, with his mind, with his will

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问题      The human being longs for a sense of being accomplished, of being able to do things, with his hand, with his mind, with his will. 【61】 Each of us wants to feel he or she has the ability to do something that is meaningful and that stands outside of us as a tribute to our inherent abilities. This extension of ourselves--in what our hands and minds can do--fills out our personality and expands our ego.
     【62】 It is easiest to see this in the craftsman who lovingly shapes some base material into object that may be either useful or beautiful or both. You can see the carpenter or bricklayer stand aside and admire the product of his personal skill.
     We’ve watched programmers and engineers work fifteen and eighteen hours at a stretch, seven days a week, when a job really got tough and they knew that a crucial deadline had to be met, or when a major project would fail unless some tough problem were solved. 【63】 They received a substantial personal payoff from their efforts in the knowledge that they could tackle tough, almost insurmountable problems, yet overcome them. They enjoyed" making it",--winning despite difficult odds; proving their capacities against the outsider: nature, a competitor, a complex problem; mastering something new every day.
     Even on simple jobs one can observe pride at work. Cleaning men will tell you that while the job looks uncomplicated, there are countless subtleties one needs to know whose desk can be dusted and whose can’t: how to get the most out of cleaning compounds; the best sequence to handle a variety of jobs; even how to sweep a great deal without getting tried.
     Some are deceived into thinking that people like to store up energy, to rest and save them selves as much as possible. Just the opposite. It is energy’s expenditure that is satisfying. 【64】 Expending energy, in a sense, creates its own replacement, there is no reservoir such that the more you use the less you have. The measure of your capability is in being active and being able to control that activity so that it results in a tangible accomplishment you can claim as your own. Just watch an employee who must deal with countless other people because his or her job is at some central point in a communications network: a salesman at a busy counter, a stockbroker on the phone, a customer representative. 【65】 They will tell you how much skill and experience it takes to field countless questions and handle a mass of diverse personalities every hour of the day.Not everyone can interact with such persistence and over long hours, but those who do pride themselves in a distinctive ability that contributes mightily to the running of the organization.
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答案在某种意义上说，花费精力会产生它的替代物；没有水越用越少的水库。
解析 这是一个并列句，后一个句子中还含有一个such that引导的表示结果的状语从句。第一分句Expending…和后一分句there is…不是简单的并列，后一分句在逻辑关系上是前面分句的原因，作者用水库的水不会用光来说明，精力也不会用尽。理解了这些，全句可以按顺译法翻译出。不过，in a sense是插入语，翻译时应调至句首处理。
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