Summarizing
总结

Sometimes the chapter or section will be extremely long or complicated, in which case you will want to stop and summarize completely before going on.
有时候，章节或部分内容会非常冗长或复杂，这时你可能需要在继续之前完全停下来进行总结。

An example of doing this is at the end of the first section on page 49, where the conclusions about introductions are summarized.
例如，在第49页第一部分的结尾处，对引言的结论进行了总结。

Here is the summary that appeared at the end of the Ritz-Ryan chapter we have just been discussing:
以下是刚刚讨论过的Ritz-Ryan章节结尾的总结：

In summary, the top-level executive structure recommended in this chapter consists of the Ritz-Ryan Board and Chairman, a Group Managing Director, and three key executives reporting to him, each in charge of one of the Group’s major businesses. These positions and reporting relationships provide a strong framework for long-term leadership and control of Groupwide operations. Only by streamlining the structure to provide this degree of control and accountability can the Group realize the improvement of opportunities identified elsewhere in this report.
总结来说，本章推荐的高层管理结构包括Ritz-Ryan董事会及主席、一名集团总经理，以及向其汇报的三位主要高管，每人负责集团的一项核心业务。这些职位及其汇报关系为集团范围内的长期领导和控制提供了强有力的框架。只有通过精简结构以实现这一程度的控制和问责，集团才能实现报告中其他部分所提到的改进机会。

Concluding summaries of this sort are not difficult to write if you keep in mind that they are meant to restate, as adroitly as possible, the principal matter and tone of the preceding text.
如果你记住总结是为了尽可能巧妙地重述前文的主要内容和语气，那么写这种总结并不困难。

Since you have these in front of you in your pyramid, all you are doing is pulling them together again for the reader.
由于你在金字塔中已经明确了这些内容，你要做的只是再次将它们为读者汇总。

In all of this positioning, the intention is to make the job of thinking required of the reader as easy as possible.
在整个结构中，目的是使读者所需的思考尽可能简单。

He is, after all, rarely trained in analysis and reflection, and can have nowhere near the understanding of the subject you have even if the subject is his own company.
毕竟，读者很少接受过分析和反思的训练，即使主题是他自己的公司，他对主题的理解也远不如你。

You and not he are peers in interpreting your thinking on the subject.
在这个主题上，你而不是读者是解读思想的专家。

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Final transition advice
最终过渡建议

Thus, you must expect that his mind will not be precisely where you want it to be, in terms of understanding, as you finish one lengthy group of points and prepare to go on to the next.
因此，当你完成一大组内容并准备进入下一部分时，你必须预料到读者的理解可能并未完全达到你希望的水平。

Your transitions are meant to grab his mind, as it were, and pull it back to where it belongs if he is to comprehend what you are trying to say.
你的过渡目的是抓住他的思绪，将其拉回到应有的位置，以便他能够理解你试图表达的内容。

This is essentially an exercise in good manners, provided it is done gracefully and only where needed.
本质上，这是一种优雅的礼貌行为，只要过渡处理得体且仅在必要之处进行即可。