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There is a never-ending supply of business leaders telling us how we can, and must, do more. John Bernard offers breathless advi

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问题     There is a never-ending supply of business leaders telling us how we can, and must, do more. John Bernard offers breathless advice on conducting " Business at the Speed of Now". Michael Port tells salesmen how to "Book Yourself Solid". And in case you thought you might be able to grab a few moments to yourself, Keith Ferrazzi warns that you must "Never Eat Alone".
    【F1】Yet when it comes to the biggest problem in the business world, the key is not too little but too much—too many distractions and interruptions, too many things done for the sake of form, and altogether too much busyness. The Dutch seem to believe that an excess of meetings is the biggest devourer of time. However, a study last year by the McKinsey Global Institute suggests that it is e-mails: it found that highly skilled office workers spend more than a quarter of each working day writing and responding to them.
    【F2】Which of these thorns of modern business life is worse remains open to debate, but what is clear is that office workers are on a treadmill of pointless activity. Managers allow meetings to drag on for hours. Workers generate e-mails because it requires little effort and no thought. An entire management industry exists to spin the treadmill ever faster.
    All this "doing more" is making it harder to focus on real work.【F3】In 2012 Gloria Mark of the University of California deprived 13 people in the IT business of e-mail for five days and studied them intensively to find that people without it concentrated on tasks for longer and experienced less stress.
    It is high time that we tried a different strategy—"doing less and thinking more". The most obvious beneficiaries of thinking more would be creative workers—the very people who are supposed to be at the heart of the modern economy. In the early 1990s Mihaly Csikszentmi-halyi, a psychologist, asked 275 creative types if he could interview them for a book he was writing. A third did not bother to reply at all and another third refused to take part.【F4】Creative people’s most important resource is their time—particularly big chunks of uninterrupted time— and their biggest enemies are those who try to nibble away at it with e-mails or meetings.
    Managers themselves could benefit.【F5】Those at the top are best employed thinking about strategy rather than operations—about whether the company is doing the right thing rather than whether it is sticking to its plans. Bill Gates, when he was in charge of Microsoft, used to take two "think weeks" a year when he would lock himself in an isolated cottage.
    Doing more has been producing negative returns for some time now. It is time to try the far more radical strategy of doing less and thinking more.
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答案2012年，加州大学的格洛丽亚·马克曾要求13名从事计算机行业的人士在五天内不得使用电子邮件并密切地观察他们的一举一动，结果发现，这些人在不使用电子邮件时，专注于工作的时间更长、感受到的压力更小。
解析 该句是一个复合句，翻译的难点在于把握不定式结构to find that people without it concentrated…在句子中的成分。根据语法知识，该不定式在句中作状语，表结果，可翻译为“结果发现……”。对于13 people in the IT business中的介词in，可使用词性转换法，译成动词“从事”。而studied them intensively中的them一词可根据汉语的表达习惯使用增词法，译为“他们的一举一动”。
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