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I am not an important person in this company. I'm just a lowly cog in the machine.
My comments:
Cogs are essential parts of a machine. They’re wheels that work together to make machinery work their magic. Without cogs, machines and indeed the whole modern day industry would grind to a halt, or fail to grind at all. And so it is curious that cogs are considered unimportant.
And perhaps not so curious. Cogs are considered unimportant because they’re commonplace – in an assembly line, for instance, there are thousands and thousands of them.
Hence, and therefore, people who work mundane routines in an organization or business call themselves cogs.
And a lower cog is a low-ranking member on the staff.
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本文僅代表作者本人觀點，與本網(wǎng)立場無關(guān)。歡迎大家討論學(xué)術(shù)問題，尊重他人，禁止人身攻擊和發(fā)布一切違反國家現(xiàn)行法律法規(guī)的內(nèi)容。
About the author:
Zhang Xin（張欣） has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.
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