1:Keep meetings short. Ideally, a meeting should be the length of a sitcom episode not a film by Martin Scorsese.2:Bartleby’s law is that 80% of the time of 80% of the people at meetings is wasted.3:If you doubt the numbers, have a think about the last big meeting you attended.4:Did everyone speak or was the discussion dominated by a small subset?[...]115:How many people were gazing at their phones?6:A lot of people attend meetings out of a sense of duty or fomo (fear of missing out).7:And what is the purpose of the meeting?8:If it is just to update people on progress, that can be done in an email or in a one-to-one conversation (which has the added benefit of allowing you to talk to your staff).9:Big meetings involving all the staff should be reserved for big news like acquisitions or lay-offs.

1:保持会议简短。理想情况下，会面的长度应该是情景喜剧的长度，而不是马丁·斯科塞斯的电影。2:根据巴托比定律，参加会议的80%的人80%的时间都浪费了。3:如果你对这些数字有疑问，想想你最近一次参加的大型会议。4:是每个人都发言了，还是只有一小部分人在讨论？[...]115:有多少人在盯着自己的手机？6:许多人参加会议是出于一种责任感或害怕错过。7:会议的目的是什么？8:如果只是让人们了解进展情况，可以通过电子邮件或一对一的交谈来实现（允许你和你的员工交谈有额外益处）。9:涉及所有员工的大型会议应该留给重大事件，如收购或裁员。

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[...]111:Picture a lecture session at a business school and you probably envisage students gazing at screens filled with equations and acronyms.2:What you might not expect is choristers attempting to sing “O clap your Hands”, an eightpart anthem composed by Orlando Gibbons and first performed in 1622.3:But Bartleby was treated to this delight, and others facing MBA students, on a visit to Sa.d Business School in Oxford earlier this year.

[...]111:想象一下商学院的一场讲座，你可能会想象学生们盯着满是方程式和首字母缩写的屏幕。2:你可能想不到的是，合唱团会尝试唱《拍手吧》，这是一首由奥兰多·吉本斯创作、于1622年首次演唱的由八部分组成的圣歌。3:但今年早些时候，在访问牛津大学赛德商学院时，巴托比和其他面对MBA学生的人都进行了这种有趣的活动。

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And in showing that the deepest truths of the material universe are to be found by gazing out into the deepest, earliest recesses of space, it feeds not just the intellect, but the spirit.

凝望最遥远、最原始的空间深处。那里埋藏着关于宇宙物质的最终解答，对这个答案的求索不仅是人类关于知识的渴望，更是灵魂的满足。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-宇宙学 揭秘宇宙的起源

The digital rendition was so lifelike that gazing down from the Wall gave some folk vertigo.

其细节重现栩栩如生以至于从城墙上俯瞰时会使人眩晕。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-脸谱网与虚拟现实 一场头戴式3D眼镜的赌博

Crystal gazing

水晶球观海术

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"It'd be like living in Beijing, " he gasps, gazing across an open plain to the mountains in the distance.

“那就像生活在北京一样，”他倒吸一口冷气，目光凝视着远处山上开阔的平地。

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Don't you see that face? ' she inquired, gazing earnestly at the mirror.

“你瞧见那张脸吗？”她追问着，认真地盯着镜子。

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"If we could plant a tree like this in Sohar, all of Oman would come to see it, " Hoff said, gazing up at the branches.

“如果我们能够在萨赫勒种这么一棵树，所有阿曼人都会来参观的。”霍夫盯着树枝说道。

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"I love you, " I told Jeremy, gazing deeply into his eyes.

“我爱你，”我深深地凝视着杰里米的眼睛对他说。

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"There is a risk that we will be plunged back into months and years of navel-gazing , " warned Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn.

“我们将可能陷入数月和数年纸上谈兵的风险”卢森堡外资大臣简阿瑟伯恩警告。

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