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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。

Science-based analytical approaches proved remarkably successful in the hunt for German submarines in the Atlantic Ocean.

基于科学的分析方法在大西洋搜寻德国潜艇的行动中被证明非常成功。

Rested in the Pacific Ocean, Mauna Kea’s peak rises above the bulk of our planet’s dense atmosphere, where conditions allow telescopes to obtain images of unsurpassed clarity.

莫纳克亚山坐落于太平洋中，其山峰高出地球稠密大气层的主体部分，那里的条件使望远镜能获得无比清晰的图像。

Social psychologists have amassed oceans of research into what they call the “above average effect”, or “illusory superiority”, and shown that, for example, 70% of us rate ourselves as above average in leadership, 93% in driving and 85% at getting on well with others — all obviously statistical impossibilities.

社会心理学家对他们所谓的“高于平均效应”或“虚幻优越感”积累了海量研究，并表明，例如，70%的人认为自己的领导力高于平均水平，93%的人认为自己的驾驶水平高于平均水平，85%的人认为自己在与人相处方面高于平均水平——这些在统计上显然都是不可能的。

Between them, the five biggest tech companies have spent an average of only $3.4 billion a year on sub-$1 billion acquisitions over the past five years — a drop in the ocean compared with their massive financial reserves, and the more than $130 billion of venture capital that was invested in the US last year.

过去五年，这五家最大的科技公司平均每年在10亿美元以下的收购上总共只花了34亿美元——与它们庞大的财务储备以及去年在美国投入的1300多亿美元风险投资相比，这只是沧海一粟。