standard operating procedure and Deming

standard operating procedure (簡寫為SOP)標準作業程序

（美國US）the usual way of doing something:
Checking references before we lend money is standard operating procedure.

(fromCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

例：有制度的雜誌、報紙等駐外記者，他們的撰文、發表、請款等等作法，都有標準作業程序上的要求。

Parisin the Fifties (Preface) "... During the 1950s, when I worked as a Time correspondent inParis, it was standard operating procedure to swamp the editors back in the New York office with voluminous, detailed and often ..."

下述兩例SOP的用法比較不恰當：

Indeed, Deming was the classic prophet without honor in his own country. It wasn't until the '80s that U.S. manufacturers adopted his principles largely to meet the competition from Japan. Deming's 14 points are now standard operating procedure around the world. Cait Murphy 這句SOP說得太隨便啦 事實上14經營要點像聖經等做人處世格言 看似簡單 其實不容易實行

「吃水果也有SOP喔！」--這句讓我想起Deming將冰箱的雞蛋寫上日期 先進先出

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"他的詩事实上是煉字煅句，真正「一詩千改始心安」而完成的。這種方法其实非常傳統，那裡是「超現实」。周夢蝶老先生的詩也是一樣，他的詩的原稿也是一樣 的塗改得漆黑一片，只有那幾行改好的詩放出光明，属於他的網站上、可以看到周公的真跡。這兩位大詩人的詩難怪每首都有新意，都是原創。可見這都是功夫詩， 不是一揮而就，盡撿現成字彙，套用前人思想理路的拼凑品。因此我的結論是我們不希望寫詩也有SOP（工業生產的所謂「標準作業程序」），可以不学超現实主 義詩法的走火入魔，使詩如同走入幻境；但也不可躭於習慣、懶於求變求新，一輩子都在陳言贅語中混一個徒有虛名的詩人頭銜。所以我說超現实不如超習慣來得更 实際。 " 向明