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转自美国DOG NEWS MAGAZINE, 此篇文章由Ronnie Irving编撰， 中文由犬界网编译。
在有关审查员的话题上，格尔还提出过一个想法：有必要设立犬种审查员吗？在我看来，这个疑问是有必要并且值得讨论的。但我关注的重点其实并非是否有必要设立全犬种审查员。因为我一贯主张审查员应该从实习审查员做起，不断实践积累经验，然后才能成为一个高水准的能够执裁任何犬种的审查员。因此我的疑问是：是否真的有可以称得上全犬种审查的审查员呢？
Geir also goes on to raise a number of questions about judges, questions that I think are very appropriate and need to be asked at this time; namely whether there really is a need for such a person as an all breed judges.My big question however is not whether there really is a need for all breed judges. Instead, linked to my belief that judges should serve an apprenticeship of hands-on experience before thoy aro let loose on any breed at senior points level, I ask another question; namely wtiether there actually is any such thing as a real all breeds judge at all?
我必须申明，很多时候我都在思考如何成为专业的全犬种审查员。 我在想，如果在英国或美国的犬展现场，或者，在了解世界犬业联盟近400种犬种官方标准的前提下，是否有人有能力完成约200种犬种的审查工作。 对于这一点，我持质疑态度。相反，我认为，有的审查会忽略犬只间一些重要的细微差别，对犬种的自然品性了解不够透彻，甚至忽略很多其他要点。
I have to say that is how i sometimes feel about the all breed judge. I stand in wonder that anyone could ever really know enough to judge around 200 breeds if you take the UK or US dog scene, or nearly 400 breeds under the FCI all-breeds rule. I defy anyone to be really except in the nuances-or even the generalities- of that number of breeds and again i think that they are let loose on it at any significant level.
大部分行业不乏专家，而知其所有却不精，也成不了专家。即便如此，也不是所有的外科医生都是脑外科专家，不是所有的律师都熟知就业法，亦不是所有的会计师都想成为高级注册师。所以，每个行业的“万金油”是不存在的。
In most professions these days people become specialists. They wouldn’t be employed to do what they do if they were generalists. Not all surgeons are brain surgeons. Not all lawyers are experts in employment law, and not all accountants are more want to be generalists and judges more and more breeds. The term Jack’ of all trades-master of none’ comes to mind.
以上观点并不代表我认为所有专业审查员都是天赋异禀。也许能够称得上是专家，但实际上他们也缺乏真正的审查经验。英国犬种审查方面存在的问题是一些审查员仅仅在两三年内就能拿到审查资格证。而事实是，英国大约有百分之八十的审查员仅能审查单犬种，谁不想成为多犬种犬展的审查员呢。按照规定，审龄未满18个月的审查员没有资格进行犬种冠军组的审查工作，这就意味着无论你在某个单犬种审查组中多么专业，没有丰富的实践，也无法很好的进行执裁。犬种执裁不单单是熟知犬种标准，更要求审查员掌控比赛现场，快速做出正确的决定，衡量指导手与犬只的默契程度，最后选出胜出犬只。只有做到以上这些，审查员才能不断进步。
That is not to say that I regard all specialist breeder judges as good judges or universal geniuses. Expert they may be, but sometimes they too actually lack sheer judging experience. The problem with the Brit ish specialist breeder judge scene is that some judges only have an assignment once every two or three years. Remember that we have about 80% of judges in the UK that officiate in only one breed and who have no desire to judge more than that single breed. And we also have a rule that you are not allowed to officiate in any breed at championship level anymore than once every eighteen months. That means that no matter how expert some specialist breeder judges are in their breed, they can become out of practice at the task of judging. After all judging is not just a question of knowing the breed standard, it also involves organizing the ring, making fairly quick decisions and weighing up the strength of one attribute in a dog against those in another dog and then deciding which is best overall. If you don’t have to do all of these things often, you can become rusty.
有的专业审查员则会过于专注犬种的一些方面，并且只能看到这些方面。他们似乎忘记了自己需要执裁的是犬只的整体，而并非局部。也正是因为这样，他们有时会被误导，一叶障目。
Specialist judges can also become too obsessed with one or two issues in a breed and see only those points. They often forget that their task is really to assess the dog as a whole not just certain parts of the dog. For that reason they can sometimes seem to be wearing blinkers (or is the word ‘blinders’ in American English?)
前面的文章中，我已经提到过专业审查员与普通审查员的区别，在这里有必要重申一次，因为我认为这是非常重要的一点，即：“专业审查员能从很微小的事物中学习到很多，到最后无所不知。而普通审查员，即使有很多学习的机会摆在面前，掌握到的却很少，到最后一无所知。”
I have mentioned before the tongue in cheek definition of the difference between a specialist judge and an all rounder judge and I don’t hesitate to do so again, as I think it makes the point very well. It goes: “The Breed Specialist is a judge who learns more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing. The All-rounder,on the other hand.is a judge who learns less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything”!
