公众人物毕业演讲第318期:阿丽安娜.哈芬顿2013史密斯学院(8)

 So for those of you majoring in fortune telling go ahead and burn the midnight oil

对于那些主修算命的同学我鼓励你们继续开夜车

The rest of you: not so much As you can tell by now, I'm a major sleep evangelist

剩下的人就别这样做了现在你们知道了 我主要是一个睡眠传道者

Indeed, at the Huffington Post, in our news room, we have two nap rooms And at first, you know, hundreds of editors, reporters, and engineers

实际上在哈芬顿邮报 我们的新闻室就有两间午休室最开始 数以百计的编辑 记者和工程师

Were very reluctant to be seen in mid¹ of the afternoon having a nap but now the 2 nap rooms are continuously booked and we need to open a third

都不怎么情愿去午休室午休但现在 两间午休室长期爆满 我们又开了第三间

Although I might say, the other day I was walking by one of the nap rooms and I saw two people walking out of the nap room

我顺便说一下 有一天我走过其中一间午休室看到两个人同时走出午休室

And I thought to myself, whatever it takes to recharge yourself Just please don't tell HR, okay?

我心里想 只要能够恢复精力就好别告诉人力资源部就行了 好吧

What adding well-being to our definition of success means is that, in addition to looking after our financial capital

将健康加入到成功定义中的真正意义在于我们不应该只照顾好手中的金融资本

We need to look after our human capital My mother was an expert of that

我们更应该照顾好我们的人力资本我母亲就是这方面的专家

I remember, when I was 12 years old a successful Greek businessman came to dinner at our home in Athenes

我记得我12岁那年一位成功的希腊商人来到我雅典的家中作客

And he told us how well everything was going in his life My mother looked at him, looking burnt-out, exhausted, drained and said to him

他跟我们讲他人生中所经历的各种事迹我母亲觉得他看起来精疲力竭 无精打采 于是跟他说

1 mid   

adj.中央的，中间的

参考例句：

• Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
• He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。