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... 之那些激励我前行的英语演讲 38 You Get an Office Full of Crackedacks 乔治 ·H ·洛里默：让身边的员工成为精英 Health is like any inheritance — you can spend the interest in work and play ，but you mustn ’ t break into the principal. 拥有健康就如同拥有了一笔宝贵的财产 —— 你可以在工作和闲暇之余尽情享用这笔财产提 供给你的 “利息 ”。 Once you do ， and it ’ s only a matter of time before you ’ ve got to place the remnants in the hands of a doctor as receiver. 不过，你千万不要打破必须遵守的规则，否则去医生那里 “ 报到 ”不过是个时间问题罢了。 It ’ s a mighty simple thing ， though ， to keep in good condition because about everything that makes for poor health has to get into you right under your nose. 相信不必多说， 所有人都明白健康的重要性， 因为你所做的每一件有损健康的事情都会 “找 上门来 ” 。 Bad health hates a man who is friendly with its enemies. More men die from worry than from overwork ， more stuff themselves to death than die of starvation. 没有健康的身体就如同你整日与敌人为伴一样。 许多人都因为忧虑而并非操劳过度而离开了 人世；越来越多的人因为暴饮暴食而非饥饿而离开人世。 ... ... If the human animal reposed less confidence in his stomach and more in his legs ， the streets would be full of healthy men walking down to business. 如果人类少信点胃，多信点腿，那么大街上应该挤满了步行去上班的人。要知道。 Remember that a man always rides to his grave ， he never walks there. 乘车去找死神的人总会比徒步前行的人快得多。 When I was a boy ， the only doubt about the food was whether there would be enough of it. I dwell on this matter of health ， because when the stomach and liver aren ’ t doing good work ， the brain can ’ t. 在我小时候， 食物让我引发的思考只局限于它们能否将我的肚子填饱。 而我现在之所以会提 及健康问题，是因为我知道当我们的胃不能正常工作时，我们的大脑往往也无法正常思考。 A good many men will say that it ’s none of your business what they do in their own time ， but you want to make it your business ， so long as it affects what they do in your time. 也许别人认为你无权过问他们在工作之余都做了哪些事情，但一旦他们在生活 中所做的事情影响了你们的工作状态，你就必须把这件事当成自己的事情来处理。 For this reason ， you should never hire men who drink after office hours. 由此，永远不要雇用那些酗酒成性的人。 It may have been the case once that when you opened up a bottle for a customer he opened up his heart ， but booze is a mighty poor salesman nowadays. Most of the men who mixed their business and their drinks hav