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Unit 6

第六单元

Karoshi

过劳死

You might be of the opinion that a little hard work never hurt anyone, but this old saying

你可能会认为有点努力工作不会伤害任何人,但这个老说

is wearing thin. Tokyo interiors fitter Nobuo Miuro, quite literally, died in his work boots

穿着瘦。东京的内部装饰来使其具有亲切感钳工Nobuo Miuro照字面上,死于他的工作的靴子

in the middle of a 17-hour shift: a Japanese doctor returned a verdict of death by overwork.

这场当中的改变:日本医生裁定死于加班。

It's a phenomenon that has become so common in Japan (where a typical office worker can

那是一种现象,已经非常普遍在日本(在一个典型的办公室工人可以

leave home at 7am, only getting back after 11pm) that they even have their own word for it:

早上7点离开家,只在晚上11点后打回到,他们甚至还有自己的的话:

"karoshi".

“过劳死”。

Karoshi has yet to make it as a buzzword in current British usage, but that's not to say

还没有过劳死,在当前的热门话题,而英国的用法,但这并不是说

that long hours and work-related stress aren't taking their toll on us here. Self-reported

那么长时间和工作压力不重要,我们这里的代价。自报的

health problems in the past 12 months by people in the UK working 48 hours or more have 健康问题,在过去的12个月,英国人在48小时内工作

included mental exhaustion (54 %), difficulty sleeping (43 %) and range from chronic

包括精神的疲惫(5400 %),入睡困难(43 %)年龄从慢性

headaches and irritable bowel trouble to ulcers and drug or alcohol problems.

头痛和肠易激麻烦去溃疡和吸毒或喝酒的问题。

The weird thing is that not all of this chaos is brought about because we work for mean

奇怪的是,不是所有这些带来混乱,因为我们工作的意思

bosses, keen to keep us working even on Christmas day.

老板,想把我们的工作更圣诞节。

Deborah is the marketing director of a major fashion outlet. She regularly burns the

黛博拉是营销总监的一个主要时尚的电源插座上。她经常会

midnight oil but has few regrets. "I did begin to worry a bit when they moved the chocolate 并没有太多的遗憾开夜车。“我做了开始有点担心当他们把巧克力

vending machine right outside my office door. Apparently I get through more chocolate bars 自动售货机就在外面我的办公室的门。显然我抓住更多的巧克力

in one week than the entire second floor get through in a month. But other than not having a 比在一个星期内度过整个三楼的在一个月。但是除了没有

particularly healthy diet and probably drinking more coffee than is good for me, I really

尤其是健康的饮食和可能喝的咖啡而非对我也有好处,我真的

love my job."

热爱我的工作。”

But there's another reason Deborah says she works so hard. "Most offices are still a little

但在底波拉的另一个原因就是说她工作很努力。“大多数办公室还是有点

dominated by males," she says. "Being a woman, I feel that I have to work even harder than 男性主导的,”她说。“作为一个女人,我觉得我有更加努力地工作

the men if I want to be taken seriously." Deborah believes that for women to succeed in the 男人如果我想受到重视。”黛博拉认为成功的女性

workplace they have to shoulder more than their fair share of the workload, but she's

他们会承担工作比他们相同的工作量,但她的