双语新闻：洗洗吧,优秀人才平均睡眠超8小时.pdfVIP

智 课 网 雅 思 备 考 资 料 双语新闻：洗洗睡吧，优秀人才平均睡眠超8小时 Growing up in a hard-working Midwestern city in the 1980s, I quickly learned that sleep is the first expense I should cut in a given day. The men I looked up to at a young age regularly boasted about running on just a few hours of sleep. While this was rooted in a good-natured work ethic, it led me to view needing sleep as a sign of weakness. I continue to see this perception in the workplace today, where it is considered a badge of honor to stay at the office late working on a project. 我生长在上世纪80年代美国中西部一个崇尚努力工作的城市中，我 很快就认识到睡眠是我在一天中应该削减的第一样东西。我小时候崇拜 的人经常夸耀自己每天只睡几个小时。尽管这根源于一种良好的职业操 守，但却使我认为对睡眠的需求是一种软弱的表现。如今在职场中我仍 能看到有人持这样的观点。在办公室为一个项目工作到很晚被视为是一 种荣耀。 The problem is, one less hour of sleep is not equal to an extra hour of achievement. In many cases the opposite occurs. When you lose an hour of sleep, it decreases your well-being, productivity, health, and ability to think the following day. One of the most influential studies of human performance, conducted by professor K. Anders Ericsson, found that top performers slept 8 hours and 36 minutes per day. The average American, for comparison, gets just 6 hours and 51 minutes of sleep on weeknights. 问题是，少睡一个小时并不等于多做出一个小时的成绩。很多时候 情况恰恰相反。少睡一个小时，第二天的精神状态、效率、健康和思考 能力就会降低。埃里克森教授的研究发现，表现优秀的人每天睡8小时3 6分钟。相比之下 ，普通美国人工作 日每晚只睡6小时51分钟。这是有关 人类表现的各种研究中最有影响的研究之一。 You are simply a different person when you operate on insufficient sleep. And it shows. If you do not get enough sleep, it can lead to a cascade of negative events. You achieve less at work, skip regular exercise, and eat poorly. 当你在睡眠不足的状态下工作时，你会失常。而且这会表现在方方 面面。如果你睡眠不足 ，可能会导致一系列的不良后果。你的工作效率 会下降 ，定期的体育锻炼也不再坚持，饮食也会一团糟。 This lack of sleep is also costly. According to a study from Harvard Medical School, lack of sleep costs the American economy $63 billion a year in lost productivity alone. The problem is not just people missing work on account of sleep, the larg