The office workers are mice, and the boss is the cat.

办公室员工是小老鼠，老板就是猫。

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He whines and complains about everything — his boss, his friends, even his cat.

他抱怨他的老板，抱怨他的朋友，甚至抱怨他家的猫。他几乎对每件事都会有怨气。

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We have to wash the cat, buy more apple cinnamon oatmeal, finish writing that resignation letter to your no-longer-boss at your dead-end job, and all sorts of other things.

我们的思维总是会到处乱飞。 “该给猫洗澡了、多买点儿苹果味的燕麦粥、向目前的老板递交辞呈以结束这份无望的工作等等，再加上一大堆其它的事情。”

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Not to put too fine a point on it, he acted as a cat's-paw for his boss, Punch Sulzberger, when the publisher got rid of his own more liberal cousin, John Oakes, as editor of the editorial page.

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