双语职场：断网时打发时间的十大妙招

游戏人间

  2011年09月19日  沪江英语

　　[1]Pretended to work假装在工作
　　"Well, you could just sit at your desk and go to sleep with a pen in your hand. "额， 只能坐在办公椅上，手里拿着一支笔打盹。
　　[2] Searched for cat pictures ... but not online找猫咪的图片，但不是在网上搜
　　"I flipped through magazines looking for funny pictures of cats doing funny things."我翻翻杂志，挑那些滑稽猫咪的图片。
　　[3] Daydream做白日梦
　　"Honestly? Stare out of the window and daydream. I had so many more good ideas back then."老实说，(无聊时)就凝视着窗外幻想。回到办公室后我会文思泉涌。
　　[4] Sent prank faxes to other offices向其他办公室发恶作剧传真
　　"We'd send a filthy
　　fax to some of the other companies. And receive some of the filthiest jokes and drawings back. Some of them ended up on the wall in the copy room."我们给其他公司发污秽照片，接着会收到黄色笑话或者图片。最终有些就被贴在复印室了。
　　[5] Played Minesweeper and Solitaire扫雷和纸牌游戏
　　"There was no internet but thanks to Windows 95, I played Solitaire and Minesweeper all day long."虽然不能上网，但幸亏Windows 95里我还可以玩扫雷和纸牌游戏，这个可以耗掉一整天。
　　[6] Invented and Played Office Games自创办公室游戏
　　We spent many hours playing 'shelf-ball。我们会花很多时间玩一种叫做“架子球”的游戏。
　　Equipment:所需器材：
　　- Tennis Ball 网球
　　- Mailboxes 邮箱盒子
　　Rules:游戏规则
　　- The ball must bounce 球必须得弹起来
　　- You get 1 point for making it in any mailbox球落到任意邮箱里，得1分。
　　- You get 2 points for making it in a corner mailbox落到角落的盒子里，得2分。
　　- You lose 1 point for making it in your boss' or opponent's mailbox落到老板或者对手的盒子里，扣1分。
　　- You get 3 points for making it in your own mailbox落到自己的邮箱里，得3分。
　　- First person to get 5 points wins"最先积满5分者获胜。
　　[7] Read junk mail查看垃圾邮件
　　"I talk to my older co-workers about this a lot. You know all that mail you get -- magazines, trade publications, seminar sign ups, etc. -- that you just throw in the trash every day? Before the internet you would sit around and read that s--t."我常和老员工谈起这个。经常会收到有关杂志、商业报刊、研讨会申请等等的垃圾邮件。你都丢到垃圾筒了？断网无所事事时，你可以看看这些邮件。
　　[8] Took long lunches延长中餐时间
　　[9] Took more smoke breaks多抽几根烟休息下
　　[10] Went home early提前下班回家
　　声明：双语文章中，中文翻译仅代表译者个人观点，仅供参考。如有不妥之处，欢迎指正。