really简单

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 is undoubtedly true that all work and no play really does make Jack, or Jill, dull. The cure is right at hand. Reading is cheap, easy and, most important, it’s fun. Liberate your imagination this year.

毫无疑问，只工作不玩耍确实会让人变得乏味。解药就在手边。阅读便宜、简单，最重要的是，它很有趣。今年就解放你的想象力吧。

Although these efforts were aimed at the nonscience-bound student, they never really made their way into mainstream thought and public discourse as a means to rally widespread support for the importance of science teaching in schools.

尽管这些努力针对的是不打算从事科学的学生，但它们从未真正进入主流思想和公共话语，成为凝聚广泛支持、让人们认识到学校科学教学重要性的手段。

But the thing is, [whether] your self-worth really is being undermined is, to a large degree, subjective.

但问题是，你的自我价值是否真的受到了削弱，在很大程度上是主观的。

This is when you assume to know what other people are thinking about you, when you can’t really know without [asking] them directly.

也就是说，你自以为知道别人对你的看法，而实际上不直接问他们，你是无法真正知道的。

“This is a really, really critical issue for restoration in Southeast Asia, because many of the most important timber species and tree species — the ones that will lock up the most carbon — they’re all masting species.”

“对东南亚的恢复工作来说，这是一个非常非常关键的问题，因为许多最重要的用材树种和树木物种——那些能封存最多碳的物种——都是大年结实物种。”