2020年09月四级第1套仔细阅读 Passage 2 原文翻译及答案解析

The work-life balance is dead. By this, I'm not advocating that you should give up your pursuit of having a fulfilling career and a thriving personal life, and I'm definitely not saying that you have to give up one to have the other. I also acknowledge that we have a work-life problem, but I'm arguing that the concept of balance has never been helpful, because it's too limiting. You see, our language makes a difference, and how we refer to things matters because it affects our thinking and therefore our actions.

工作与生活的平衡已经消亡。我这么说，并不是主张你应该放弃追求充实的职业生涯和蓬勃发展的个人生活，也绝不是说你必须放弃一个才能拥有另一个。我也承认我们确实存在工作与生活的问题，但我认为平衡的概念从来都不够有益，因为它过于局限。你看，我们的语言很重要，我们如何称呼事物会影响我们的思维，进而影响我们的行动。

At the minimum, most of us work because we want to be able to support ourselves, our families, and the people around us. In the ideal world, we're all doing work that we're proud of and that provides meaning and purpose to us. But even if your job doesn't give you shivers of joy each new day, working is a part of what each of us does and the contribution we make to society. When you separate work and life, it's a little bit harder to make that connection. But when you think of work as part of a full life and a complete experience, it becomes easier to see that success in one aspect often supports another.

至少，我们大多数人工作是因为想要能够养活自己、家人和周围的人。在理想世界里，我们都从事着让我们自豪并为我们提供意义和目的的工作。但即使你的工作不能每天让你激动不已，工作也是我们每个人所做之事的一部分，是我们对社会的贡献。当你把工作和生活分开时，要建立这种联系就有点困难。但当你把工作视为充实生活和完整体验的一部分时，就更容易看到一个方面的成功往往支持另一个方面。

Losing your balance and falling isn't pleasant. A goal to balance suggests that things could quickly get off balance, and that causes terrible outcomes. It's more constructive to think of solutions that continue to evolve over shifts in life and work. Rather than falling or failing, you may have good days or better days or not-so-good days. These variations are normal, and it's more useful to think of life as something that is ever evolving and changing, rather than a high-risk enterprise where things could go wrong with one misstep.

失去平衡而跌倒并不愉快。追求平衡的目标暗示着事物可能迅速失衡，从而导致糟糕的结果。更有建设性的做法是思考那些在生活和工作变化中持续演变的解决方案。与其跌倒或失败，你可能有好日子、更好的日子或不太好的日子。这些变化是正常的，更有用的做法是把生活视为不断演变和变化的事物，而不是一个高风险的企业，一步走错就可能出问题。

How we talk to ourselves matters, and how we talk about issues makes a difference. Let's bury "work-life balance" and think bigger and better about work-life fulfillment to do a little less balancing and a lot more living.

我们如何与自己对话很重要，我们如何谈论问题也会产生影响。让我们埋葬“工作与生活的平衡”，更宏大、更美好地思考工作与生活的充实，少做一些平衡，多一些生活。