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1.dash out 冲出来
Why did you catch up your bag and dash out?
你为什么慌忙拿起书包就往外跑？
2.in a minority 占少数
From online responses, it seems these people are not in a minority.
从网络上人们的反应可以看出，这些人似乎并不在少数。
n. 病毒，病原体
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- 商业版块
- Bartleby
- 巴托比专栏
- Back on the chain gang
- 回到流水线
- Employees and employers both face trade-offs as offices reopen
- 随着办公室重新开放，雇员和雇主都面临着权衡。
- Remember the 7am alarm?
- 还记得早上7点的闹钟吗？
- The rushed goodbye with spouse and children as you dash out of the house?
- 还记得冲出家门时与配偶和孩子们的匆忙道别吗？
- The nervous patting of pockets to check for keys, season ticket, security pass and phone?
- 还记得你会紧张地拍打口袋，检查落没落下钥匙、通勤票、门禁卡和手机吗？
- And the clogged traffic or crowded train carriage?
- 还记得堵塞的交通或拥挤的火车车厢吗？
- Most office workers have escaped those familiar rituals for the past four months.
- 在过去的四个月里，大多数上班族都摆脱了那些熟悉的习惯。
- But offices are slowly reopening again.
- 但是办公室又逐渐重新开放了。
- And governments are keen to lure workers into the cities, where they can spend their money and help to revive battered economies.
- 政府也热衷于吸引工作人员们进入城市，因为他们在城市里可以进行消费并帮助重振受损的经济。
- A group of academics led by Ethan Bernstein of Harvard Business School has been surveying American workers during the crisis.
- 哈佛商学院的伊森·伯恩斯坦领导着一组学者对疫情期间的美国工人们展开了调查。
- It found that many felt they could be just as productive at home as they had been at the office.
- 调查发现，许多人觉得在家里办公和在办公室里一样高效。
- In terms of job satisfaction, a small wobble in the first few weeks of lockdown eased as workers adjusted to new routines.
- 在停工的最初几周里，工人们的工作满意度有小范围的波动，但随着他们适应了新的工作习惯，波动减缓。
- But once that adjustmentwas made, satisfaction increased.
- 他们一旦做出了调整，满意度开始回升。
- Stress levels have fallen by more than 10%.
- 压力水平下降了10%以上。
- That despite the fact that workers toil for longer: an analysis of one technology company showed that working hours have increased by 10-20% during the pandemic.
- 尽管工人们的工作时间相对增加：一家科技公司的分析显示，在新冠肺炎疫情期间，工作时间增加了10-20%。
- That contrasts with less positive results of previous case studies of homeworking.
- 这与之前在家办公不太积极的结果形成了对比。
- Mr Bernstein and his colleagues suggest that the main difference this time is that all employees have been forced into the same situation.
- 伯恩斯坦和他的同事们认为，这一次的主要区别在于，所有员工都被迫进入在家办公的状态。
- In the past, those who worked at home were in the minority, often felt excluded from the group, and so were less likely to identify with the company.
- 在过去，那些在家工作的人只占少数，他们常常感到被排除在群体之外，因此不太可能对公司产生认同感。
- If they were right, then this problem may reassert itself whenoffice work resumes.
- 如果学者们分析正确，那么当恢复去办公室办公时，这个问题可能会再次出现。
- At the moment, those who have returned to theoffice are in a minority, comprising those who find it most difficult to work at home.
- 目前，那些回到办公室办公的人占少数，包括那些觉得难以在家工作的人。
- But the balance may shift as time goes on, perhaps because people become more relaxed about the virus, or because people will miss the fellowship of their colleagues.
- 但随着时间的推移，这种平衡可能会改变，也许是因为人们对病毒变得更加放松，或者是因为人们会怀念同事们的友谊。
- At that point those who remain at home may start to feel isolated.
- 到那时，那些仍然在家办公的人可能会开始感到被孤立了。
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