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If, like most business people, you spend your life dashing from office to plane, train to home, boardroom to washroom, what you really need to do is stay in more, sit down — and read a book.

如果你像大多数商务人士一样，一辈子都在奔波——从办公室到飞机，从火车到家里，从会议室到洗手间——那么你真正需要做的是多待在家里，坐下来——读一本书。

It took place on many different planes: between Napoleon’s French army and the angry inhabitants; between the British, ever keen to exacerbate the emperor’s difficulties, and the marshals sent from Paris to try to keep them in check; between new forces of science and meritocracy and old ones of conservatism and birth.

这场斗争在许多不同层面上展开：拿破仑的法国军队与愤怒的当地居民之间；一心想加剧皇帝困境的英国人与从巴黎派来试图遏制他们的元帅们之间；科学与任人唯贤的新势力和保守主义与门第出身的旧势力之间。