職場新概念英語：胳膊摔斷后工作效率反而高了

1、職場新概念英語：胳膊摔斷后工作效率反而高了Two weeks ago I was cycling home after visiting my 90-year- old father who had fallen over and broken a hip. It was a fine spring evening, my bike had just been tuned up and I was racing along feeling grateful not to be ancient, frail and immobilised.前一陣子，我看望父親后騎車回家。他已經(jīng)90 歲高齡，之前

2、摔了一跤，摔斷了盆骨。那是個春風(fēng)和煦的美好夜晚，我的車子剛剛調(diào)好， 我一路飛馳，慶幸自己依然年輕、身體強(qiáng)健、活動自如。Halfway down Dalston Lane, the hipster cycling in front of me took a corner too fast, lost control of his bike and fell under my front wheel. I panicked, swerved and fell off myself.當(dāng)我在達(dá)爾斯頓路 (Dalston Lane) 上騎到一半時，騎在我前面的那位 潮人拐彎太快，車子失去控制，摔倒在我的

3、前輪下。我被嚇了一跳， 猛地轉(zhuǎn)向，也摔下車來。As I lay on the tarmac, I had a sense of de j a vu. The firstthought that came into my head was ： I 've had a bike accident again.我躺在柏油馬路上，感覺有些似曾相識。出現(xiàn)在腦海中的第一個念頭 是：我又一次遭遇了自行車車禍。Readers of this column might be getting a sense of de j a vutoo. It 's not the first time the

4、y have had to read about me falling off my favourite means of transport. When I presented myself at work the next day a colleague took one look at my arm, hanging feebly in a sling, and said： “How annoying!You can't even turn it into a column, as you've writtenthat one already. ”這個專欄的讀者或許也有似

5、曾相識的感覺。這不是他們第一次讀到關(guān)于我從我最喜歡的交通工具上摔下的文章了。第二天當(dāng)我去上班時， 一位同事看了一眼我打著吊帶無力懸掛著的胳膊，說：“真討厭！你都不能把這寫成一篇專欄，你已經(jīng)寫過這類事了?！眝e changed my s broken hip andAt the ti me I agreed. But two weeks on, I mind. This time it's different. My father my own broken arm have taught me two lessons in how to get more done that are s

6、o profound, I have a duty to share them.當(dāng)時我對此沒有異議。但是兩周后，我改變了想法。這個次不一樣。 我父親摔斷的盆骨和我自己摔斷的胳膊讓我學(xué)到了兩個關(guān)于如何能完 成更多工作的深刻教訓(xùn)，我有責(zé)任分享出來。When I came off my bike last year, I landed on my face, got a black eye, and grazes and bruises on forehead, cheek and chin. The subject of the column I wrote then was how to pre

7、tend to be a professional woman when you look like the victim of domestic abuse. That article now strikes me as being of niche interest although I did receive an email from a woman who had come off her bike, lost seven teeth and gone into the office the next day to chair a meeting.去年當(dāng)我從車上摔下時，我是臉著地，摔

8、得眼眶烏青，前額、臉頰和 下巴都有擦傷和淤血。我當(dāng)時寫的那篇專欄的主題是，當(dāng)你看起來像 家暴受害者一樣時，該如何假裝成職業(yè)女性?，F(xiàn)在在我看來，那篇文 章只會引起小眾興趣即使我的確收到了來自一名從自行車上摔下、 磕掉了 7 顆牙的女性的郵件，事故第二天她就去上班主持會議了。This time what I ' ve learnt is of wider appeal. The two fractures establish two counterintuitive laws of productivity that can be used by anyone.這個次我得到的教訓(xùn)能引起更廣

9、泛讀者的興趣。我從兩次骨折事件中 得到的兩條違反直覺的工作效率法則，能夠適用于任何人。The first law I have invented myself and it goes like this：if you slow technology down, you go faster.第一條法則是我自己發(fā)明的，它是這么說的：如果你把技術(shù)放慢，你 會走得更快。I have a small break at the top of my right arm, which meansI can move my fingers and wrist, but the arm is strapped u

10、p so I can type only very slowly. Instead of being a disaster for someone who spends the whole day at the keyboard it has made me write more effi ciently than I 've done in years.我右臂最上處有一處小骨折，這意味著我能夠動手指和手腕，但是因 為胳膊包扎起來了，所以我打字非常慢。對于整日與鍵盤為伍的人來 說，這非但不是災(zāi)難，反而讓我的寫作效率達(dá)到多年來。Because typing is hard, I am h

11、aving to practise the long- forgotten skill of thinking before I write a requirementin the days of the manual typewriter, when the strictures of the Tipp-Ex bottle meant getting it right first time. Now, thanks to my computer 's infinite tolerance of mistakes, I think nothing of getting it wrong 20 times before finally getting a grip and writing something intelligible.因為打字困難，我不得不練習(xí)起寫作之前先思考這項遺忘已久的技能 在手動打字機(jī)時代（ Tipp-Ex 修正液的限制意味著要一次性寫對）， 這