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But for the most part, this isn’t what the business community does. I have yet to meet a chief executive who reads regularly. Many skip newspapers, and magazines are a stretch. They don’t have time, they say. It’s inefficient; they can get the information they need from those around them. At a pinch, they might pick up a business book before a long flight, in the hope that, like a cookbook, it will provide a foolproof recipe. Some are drawn to what I think of as “business car crash” books — the stories of Theranos, Purdue, or WeWork. But outside those narrow pools of interest, a vast ocean awaits, bountiful with simmering ideas, mental adventure and imaginative refreshment.

但在大多数情况下，商界人士并不这样做。我还从未见过一位经常阅读的首席执行官。许多人不看报纸，杂志对他们来说也很勉强。他们说自己没有时间。阅读效率太低；他们可以从身边的人那里获得所需的信息。实在不得已时，他们可能会在长途飞行前拿起一本商业书籍，希望它能像食谱一样提供万无一失的秘诀。有些人被我所说的“商业车祸”类书籍所吸引——比如Theranos、普渡或WeWork的故事。但在这些狭小的兴趣池之外，一片浩瀚的海洋正等待着你，那里满是酝酿中的思想、心灵的冒险和想象力的焕新。

We think of it simply as a healthy and helpful flow of intelligent thought.

我们只是把它看作一股健康而有益的理性思维之流。

Thinking of time as a resource to be maximised means you approach it instrumentally, judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal.

把时间看作一种需要最大化利用的资源，意味着你以工具性的方式对待它，只有当某一时刻推动了朝向某个目标的进展时，才认为它得到了很好的利用。

There are lots and lots of CEOs in very different companies, but most think of themselves as coaches and this is their team and they want to win.”

形形色色的公司里有许许多多的首席执行官，但大多数都把自己看作教练，把公司看作自己的团队，并且想要获胜。”

Consequently, discovery claims should be thought of as protoscience.

因此，发现主张应被视为原科学。

What’s more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses.

而且，男孩和女孩都穿被视为不分性别的裙装。

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.

西尼尔并没有得出孩子使父母快乐或痛苦的结论，而是提出我们需要重新定义幸福：不应把幸福看作可以用每时每刻的快乐来衡量的东西，而应把幸福视为一种“过去时”的状态。

We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War Ⅱ as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G.I. Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.

我们往往认为二战刚结束后的几十年是繁荣发展的时期：数以百万计的士兵返回家园，凭借《退伍军人权利法案》上大学，在婚姻登记处排起长队。