2020考研英语：《经济学人》中英读译Day112

英语阅读能力依靠什么？必然是词汇的积累，但，仅仅是词汇的积累是不够了，更应该了解英语句式，不同句型所表达意义。如何培养自己的阅读语感呢？那么就跟着聚创考研信息网小编每天学一点英语，一起为考研筑起坚实的地基。阅读是需要积累的，就像我们需要经常和人沟通才会促进我们的表达能力一样~小伙伴跟着小编一起，每天坚持打卡，培养英语阅读能力及语感，了解文章一些经典词汇的用法。

经济学人: 巴托比专栏: 雇佣我的那个间谍 (1)

The new year is the moment when people vow to improve their fitness.They join gyms, swear off alcohol and adopt detox diets. These resolutions usually do not last beyond January.But some employers try to help their workers stick to their goals by offering "wellness" programmes.

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新年是大家许愿改善健康的时刻。他们去健身房，发誓要戒酒，还要吃排毒的食物。这些新年愿望通常维持不过一月。但是一些雇主们想要通过“健康”项目帮助他们的员工坚持目标。

 

One of the longest-running examples began in 1979 at Johnson & Johnson (J&J), an American health-care company.The plan promotes weight loss, smoking cessation and efforts to reduce blood pressure.The firm claims it reduced medical costs by $400 an employee per year, and resulted in fewer workers suffering from heart disease or high blood pressure.

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运营时间最长的健康项目之一开始于1979年由美国强生实施，这是一家美国卫生保健公司。该计划提倡减肥、戒烟以及降低血压。公司宣称该项目让员工每年的医疗开支减少了400美元，并且患心脏病或高血压的员工更少了。

  

Yet an examination of the data by Martin Cherniack of the University of Connecticut found that in 2005-08, a sharp jump in alcohol use, depression and stress among J&J employees occurred.This coincided with a period when the firm had a target of lifting productivity by 9% a year.So the employees may have been leaner and fitter, but it is possible that workplace pressure to produce more meant greater stress.All this suggests that employee well-being is a rather more complex topic than can be tackled by a programme devoted to exercise and healthy living.

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但康涅狄格大学的Martin Cherniack对数据进行审查后发现，在2005年到2008年间，强生的员工饮酒、患抑郁症以及压力的人数大幅增加。与此同时，这段时期内公司立下目标，生产力一年要增长9%。所以员工们或许一直很瘦且健康，但是有可能是公司增产的压力给了他们更大的工作压力。所有这一切都表明员工健康是一个相当复杂的话题，仅靠一个致力于健身和健康生活的项目是无法解决的。

  

A study by RAND Europe, a research institute, found that obvious bad habits such as smoking and high alcohol use were in fact not associated with lower productivity,while obese workers were no more likely to take time off than anyone else. The biggest productivity problems were associated with lack of sleep,financial concerns and mental health issues——factors that may well be directly linked to work-related stress.

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研究机构兰德欧洲智囊团的一项研究发现，明显的坏习惯如抽烟和酗酒，其实和生产力低并无关联，而肥胖的员工休息的时间并不比其他人多。最大的生产力问题和缺乏睡眠经济情况以及精神健康问题——这些和工作压力直接挂钩的因素相关。

  

It seems reasonable for companies to expect some level of economic return on any wellness programme that they provide.But the trade-off should not be too blatant. Making employees fitter so you can work them a lot harder seems rather like drilling your infantry on an assault course before sending them to face the machine guns.A better impact on morale (and thus productivity) might occur if workers felt that their managers had a genuine interest in their welfare.Any health programme that tries to alter workers' behaviour at home also raises privacy issues.

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公司想从他们提供的健康项目中获取一定程度的经济回报，这似乎合情合理。但是这种交换不应该太过明目张胆。让员工们更加健康，这样你就能让他们更努力的工作这似乎很像是在野战训练场上训练你的步兵，然后把他们送去面对机关枪。如果员工们感到管理者真正关心他们的福利，那么这对鼓舞士气（以及对生产力）会有更好的影响。任何想要改变员工在家中行为的健康项目也会引起隐私问题。

  

注释

1.swear off 下定决心不做...

You swear off real food for five days, living off bottles of raw, organic, vegan green-, brown- and orange-colored liquids

你发誓五天不吃真正的食物，靠一瓶生的、有机的、纯素的、棕色的和橙色的液体为生。来源于《WSJ》

  

2.stick to 坚持

She should stick to the more adventurously upbeat formula

她应该坚持更大胆乐观的公式。来源于《BBC》

  

3.smoking cessation 戒烟

But it's never too late to benefit from smoking cessation.

但是，对吸烟者心脏的好处，戒烟从来都不会太晚。

  

4.take time off 休息

Take time off every day.

每天休息一小会。

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