★    Katharine is asking Jacob about her responsibilities.

凱薩琳詢問雅各自己的職務。

K：Jacob, can you tell me what I should do to finish this data entry project? I know that my main duties will be centered around analyzing the data, but should I start in on that right away? Should I write up a report on what I've done first?

雅各，你可以告訴我要做什麼好完成資料輸入嗎？我知道我主要的工作是資料分析，但是要立刻開始嗎？我需要寫工作紀錄嗎？

J：Oh, it's not necessary to write a report on that. But before you start the analysis, I want you to read some of our previous reports, to get a sense of what we look for and how our analysis is organized, because you're going to be responsible for setting up the database that organizes our results. Because this is your first time, please show me the database before you start the analysis. I might want to make some changes.

噢，不用寫那個。不過由於妳將要負責建立結果整理的資料庫，所以要開始分析前，我想要妳先讀過以前的報告，好對我們需要什麼、如何組織報告有個頭緒。因為這是妳第一次做，請先讓我看過資料庫之後，妳再開始分析，我或許會想做些修正。

K：OK. And will I be working on writing for this project?

好。那我要替這個專案寫報告嗎？

J：I want you to stay focused on the data for now, so no, not this time. You'll get a chance to write soon, but in this position you are mainly going to be doing data-crunching.

這一次不用，我要妳目前專心於數據就好。妳很快就有機會寫了，不過妳這個職位主要是要做資料運算。

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