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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’re also giving our customers better channels versus picking up the phone to accomplish something beyond human scale.

我们还为客户提供了更好的渠道，而不是拿起电话去完成超出人力范围的事情。

He quotes a giant of classical economics, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like “children who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once” rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.

他引用古典经济学巨匠阿尔弗雷德·马歇尔的话，把这种金融上的急躁形容为就像“孩子们把布丁里的李子挑出来立刻吃掉”，而不是把它们放在一边留到最后吃。

And picking crops is hard on older bodies.

而采摘农作物对年纪较大的人来说很吃力。

In effect, the U.S. can import food or it can import the workers who pick it.

实际上，美国要么进口食品，要么进口采摘食品的工人。

That’s why there has been such a strong demand for rules that would prevent broadband providers from picking winners and losers online, preserving the freedom and innovation that have been the lifeblood of the Internet.

这就是为什么人们强烈要求制定规则，防止宽带提供商在网上决定谁输谁赢，以保护作为互联网命脉的自由和创新。

“I wouldn’t pick a year to end print,” he said.

他说：“我不会选定某一年来终止印刷版。”

Pick a standard work uniform or a few go-to options.

选定一套标准的工作装或几套常穿的搭配。

I can pick a date from the past 53 years and know instantly where I was, what happened in the news and even the day of the week.

我可以从过去53年中随便挑出一个日期，立刻知道那天我在哪里、新闻里发生了什么，甚至那天是星期几。

pick

挑选

Furthermore, the highest CEO salaries are paid to outside candidates, not to the cozy insider picks, another sign that high CEO pay is not some kind of depredation at the expense of the rest of the company.

此外，最高的首席执行官薪酬是付给外部人选的，而不是付给关系亲密的内部人选，这是另一个迹象，表明首席执行官的高薪并非某种以牺牲公司其他人利益为代价的掠夺。

Studying this could help [understand] why human evolution picked pace in the last 30,000 years, with social environment being a major [contributory] factor.

研究这一点有助于理解人类进化为何在过去三万年间加快了步伐，而社会环境是其中一个主要的促成因素。

Say your boss picks holes in your sales report, and you come away feeling like this means she thinks you’re a [poor] member of staff.

比如说，老板挑出了你销售报告中的毛病，而你事后觉得这意味着她认为你是个差劲的员工。

They also provide an opportunity to talk to the people responsible for growing or raising your food, support your local economy and pick up fresh seasonal produce — all at the same time.

它们还提供了一个机会，让你可以与种植或养殖你的食物的人交谈，支持当地经济，并挑选新鲜的时令农产品——这一切可以同时完成。

When Microsoft bought task management app Wunderlist and mobile calendar Sunrise in 2015, it picked up two newcomers that were attracting considerable buzz in Silicon Valley.

2015年，微软收购了任务管理应用Wunderlist和移动日历Sunrise，从而拿下了两家在硅谷备受关注的新公司。

pick up

拾起；好转

pick up social signals from non-living rats.

接收来自非生命鼠的社交信号。

If you have a bone to pick with someone in your workplace, you may try to stay tight-lipped around them.

如果你对工作场所的某个人有意见，你可能会在他们身边尽量守口如瓶。