A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked my professional progress prompted me to abandon my relatively high profile career although, in the manner of a disgraced government minister, I covered my exit by claiming“I wanted to spend more time with my family”.(Text5. 2001)
翻译
一次伤害我自尊、阻断我事业发展的平级(人事)调动,促使我放弃了我那相对体面的职业,然而,我却以一种失势政府大臣的方式宣称,“我想多陪陪家人”,以此掩饰我辞职的原因。