Work hard and play hard!
認真工作、愉快玩耍！

The work-life balance
平衡工作與生活

本篇翻譯僅代表Icy個人觀點

Of course, work is important for us all, it gives us money to live, it gives structure to our everyday lives. But for a happy, balanced life, it’s also important to ‘play’ sometimes. It’s important to find time to relax with friends and family.

當然，工作于我們所有人來說都十分重要，它不僅為我們的生活提供了物質(zhì)保障，還充實了我們的日常生活。但要想過上幸福平衡的生活，適當?shù)?/strong>“玩”亦很重要。留出時間陪朋友、家人，放松身心，亦不可或缺。

It’s not good to think about work all the time. I know from my work as a doctor that it’s sometimes difficult not to take your work problems home – but if you take your problems home you never relax and it’s difficult for your family and bad for your health.

一直心系工作不利于身心健康。作為一名醫(yī)生我知道，不把工作問題帶回家絕非易事 – 但是，如果你把工作問題帶回了家，你就很難得到放松，于你的家庭、健康而言亦非好事。

Don’t live to work, work to live! Life is more than work.

生活不是為了工作，工作只是為了生活，生活遠比工作重要。

Work hard, play hard — it's a phrase we hear often but one that's easier said than done. Who has the time to play hard when they're working so much? And, vice versa, who has the energy to get anything done when they're always having fun?

我們常常聽到人們說：認真工作、愉快玩耍，但卻是說起來容易做起來難。當工作堆積如山時，誰還有時間去愉快地玩耍？反之亦然，當我們縱情娛樂之時，誰還有精力去完成工作？

But you can use your time wisely, work efficiently and play responsibly to find a work-life balance. There is a saying that “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” So, all work and no play is no way to live life and all play and no work isn't possible for most of us. Thus, we need to find ways to strike a work-life balance.

然而，你可以明智地規(guī)劃時間，提高工作效率，合理地安排時間玩耍，找到工作和生活的平衡。有句話說，只工作不玩耍，聰明孩子也變傻。因此，只工作不玩耍不是正確的生活方式，只玩耍不工作于我們大多數(shù)人來說亦是不可能的。所以，我們需要想辦法平衡我們的工作與生活。

In short, work-life balance is the state of equilibrium where a person equally prioritizes the demands of one’s career and the demands of one’s personal life. In today’s world, increased responsibilities at work and home, having children, taking care of elderly parents, etc., could all lead to a poor work-life balance. But we have to accept that there is no ‘perfect’ work-life balance.

簡而言之，工作與生活的平衡是一種我們可以同時兼顧事業(yè)與生活的平衡狀態(tài)。在當今世界，工作和家庭責任的增加，生孩子，照顧年邁的父母等等，都可能導致工作和生活失衡。但我們必須接受沒有 “完美” 的工作與生活平衡。

Some days, you might focus more on work, while other days you might have more time and energy to pursue your hobbies or spend time with your loved ones. It’s really difficult for us to separate work from life. You just need to find your own ways to strike the balance.

有些時候，你可能更專注于工作，而有些時候，你可能有更多的時間和精力去追求愛好或陪伴親人。把工作和生活分開并非易事，你需要設法找到工作與生活的平衡點。

For instance, when you are eager to improve your English, but you are really busy at work at the moment, and the balance is more on the work side, you need to think about ways that you can incorporate more English into your daily routine, such as listening to English on your way to work, making full use of your fragmented time to memorize or recite English.

例如，當你渴望提高你的英語水平，但你此時的工作十分忙碌，平衡點更傾向于工作方面，你需要考慮如何將英語更多地融入日常生活中，比如在上班的路上聽英語，充分利用碎片時間來記憶或背誦英語。

All in all, don’t let your life revolve around working. Make sure you do have some free time doing something you enjoy now and then. So, tell me, what do you do to maintain a good work-life balance? What do you do in your spare time? I’d love you to let me know in the comment section below.

簡而言之，不要讓你的生活圍著工作轉(zhuǎn)，要確保時不時有一些空閑時間來做自己喜歡的事情。請告訴我，你是如何保持工作和生活的良好平衡？空閑時間，你會做什么？請在評論區(qū)留言告訴我。

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