当时帕特里夏·库克是马萨诸塞州智囊团的一个工作人员,她想增加工资,但她的老板不想给她增加工资,于是她就态度强硬地提出了这个问题。结果谈话很快就变成了激烈的争吵,老板说她的工作就值那么多钱,库克则说她应该比老板给她的工资挣得多。 At that time, Patricia Cook was a staff member of the Massachusetts think tank. She wanted to increase her salary, but her boss did not want to give her a raise, so she posed this question in a tough manner. As a result, the conversation quickly became a fierce quarrel, the boss said that her job was worth so much, and Cook said she should earn more than her boss gave her.