| 1. | There is no doubt the foreign service served me with distinction .
毫无疑问，外交人员出色地辅佐了我的工作。 |
| 2. | Can't you realize how that distinguished you in your foreign service ?
难道你不明白这件事使你在外交界多出名？ |
| 3. | Frequent gyrations in our national direction demoralize the foreign service .
我们在基本国策上的多变性，常使外交部门陷于混乱。 |
| 4. | Still, despite that handicap, you've made an admirable foreign service officer .
不过，尽管有这么点不足之处，你还是个出色的外交官。 |
| 5. | This valedictory dispatch was written as he retired from the foreign service a few weeks ago .
这份告别报告是他几周前从外交界退休时所写的。 |
| 6. | A foreign service officer's job is always easier, if he is able to produce good news for his client country .
如果一位外交官能给其主管国家带来点好消息，他的工作就会好做些。 |
| 7. | I used the four-week interval between my nomination and confirmation to conduct a systematic talent search in the foreign service .
我利用被提名后等待批准的四周时间，在外交部门进行了系统的发掘人才的工作。 |
| 8. | Leadership clearly incapable of grasping the complexity of the office or in constant need of briefing on the most elementary issues elicits the most self-willed assertions of foreign service parochialism .
如果领导显然无力应付复杂的工作，或是连最基本的问题也需要经常听取汇报，那就会引起外交人员自作主张，大搞本位主义。 |
| 9. | It ' s probably the reason i joined the foreign service
这或许就是我选择外交生涯的缘由。 |
