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【Para 1】Volunteering has always been viewed as good for your soul. Now it turns out that it's also good for your health and your career.
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【Notes】 1、本段you, your泛指每一位读者,写作时也可以用one, human代替。作者用第二人称亲切的表达拉近了与读者的距离。 2、soul 精神、心灵、灵魂,这里可以理解为对身心有益,志愿服务对心灵好处包括心智的成熟、奉献精神等 |
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【Para 2】Recent research conducted by Washington, D.C.-based Corporation for National & Community Service reveals that charitable work literally makes the heart grow stronger, as reported in my book Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business Is Down. Individuals with coronary artery disease who participate in volunteer activities after suffering a heart attack report a reduction in despair and depression, driving down mortality and adding years to life. It's also true that those who volunteer have fewer incidents of heart disease in the first place.
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【Notes】 1. Mortality? 死亡率 【扩展阅读】1.National & Community Service 美国国家和社区服务公司机构网站 美国政府机构(中英对照)列表 |
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【Para 3】Surprisingly, you don't need to devote huge chunks of time to do-good activities to reap their health benefits. The research shows tangible positive changes by volunteering just 100 hours per year — a figure that works out to two hours a week.In addition, volunteering can give your professional well-being a boost. Non-profits have long offered a golden opportunity to network and learn new skills in different areas, something that, in turn, will make you more valuable back in the office. The recession blew open that secret, though; according to an article in The Wall Street Journal, social enterprise organizations have been swamped with business-savvy professionals looking to burnish their resumes.
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【Notes】 1. Huge chunks of 大量的 |
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【Para 4】Some of the best opportunities for volunteer work that benefits your karma and your career may come from your own company. Research from the Center for Work-Life Policy shows that high-potential employees (mostly women, but also a significant percentage of men) are seriously motivated by a desire to give back to the world, and increasingly seek out employers that allow them to participate on company time. Smart employers, in turn, are linking altruism and ambition. By using community service partnerships to help valued employees fulfill their dreams and accelerate their careers, companies are betting that their A-team's enthusiasm will pay off in renewed engagement and loyalty.
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【notes】 1.karma 因缘、因果报应。这里可以指命运。 【扩展阅读】 |
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【Para 5】Since 2003, Cisco Systems has operated an innovative program that blends career development for high-potential, senior-level employees with the company's philanthropic and community-relations goals. Cisco's Leadership Fellows Program enables "top talent leaders" — defined as self-motivated, high-performing and high-potential vice presidents and directors who are committed to their own professional development — to work with a non-profit organization for up to one year and then return to their former position, inspired, rejuvenated and with enhanced leadership skills. The Fellows are considered full-time Cisco employees and receive their salaries and benefits during their period of service.
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【notes】 1. Blend with 与……混合/相结合。 【扩展阅读】 |
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【Para 6】Candidates for the program go through a rigorous selection process, and each Fellow is matched with a non-profit assignment that requires his or her specific business expertise and that will improve their management and technical skills. To date, 31 Fellows have been chosen, coming from all areas of the company, including engineering, marketing, finance and administration.Molly Tschang recently served as temporary executive director of NetHope, a consortium of leading nongovernmental organizations, as it conducted a search for someone to permanently fill the job. Tschang helped NetHope leverage technology to build and strengthen relationships among 17 international agencies that are important players in the developing world. For Cisco, her enhanced skills in collaboration and negotiation not only will enhance her performance when she returns to work, but may also enable her to generate future business.
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【Notes】 1. Go through参与,经历。 【扩展阅读】 1、NetHope:建立于2001年,是32个国际非政府组织的财团,通过发展中国家和灾难严重区的人道主义组织,专门提高此地域的信息技术。NetHope组织和微软公司、思科系统公司、英特尔公司等都有合作关系 >>维基百科链接 |
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【Para 7】 Ernst & Young's Corporate Responsibility Fellows Program appeals to top performers looking for a way to give back to the world through work, while exploring a new country and culture. The Fellows program sends a highly select group of high-octane talent to low-income countries for three months at full pay. They use their skills to galvanize promising local entrepreneurs at a critical point in their business — typically providing help they couldn't otherwise afford — and help jump-start growth in these emerging markets. "Fellows come back rejuvenated, transformed," reports Maria Pena, Americas leader of entrepreneurship — corporate responsibility. "They love it."
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【Notes】 1、high-octane talent high-octane本意(汽油)高辛烷值的,强烈的,高能量的,此处引申意为高能力、干劲十足的人才 【扩展阅读】 |
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【Para 8】Simply giving employees access to charitable work through their job is an effective way to amp up engagement. More than a third of the 106,000 employees of BT (formerly British Telecom) already actively volunteer during their off-hours, according to a company internal survey. Another 30 percent would like to. That's why in April 2009, BT introduced its first coordinated, companywide Volunteer Program.
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【notes】1、amp up 扩大
1、BT:British Telecom,英国电信公司,原为英国国营电信公用事业,由英国邮政总局管理,1981年10月1日脱离英国皇家邮政,变成独立的国营事业。在英国保守党柴契尔夫人执政下,1984年向市场出售50%公股,成为民营公司。该公司始终是全英最大电信设施硬件的营运者。英国电信在全球170个国家设有营业点或办事处,2006年全球营收约为390亿美元。目前海外营业处的营业额占该集团总营业额的三分之一。英国电信在2007年下半年收购了位于新加坡的Frontline。 |
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【Para 9】BT's vision is to effectively pair work teams and individual executives with productive volunteer opportunities that match their personal interests and career development needs. For example, a division that needs team building may spend a day together erasing graffiti off inner-city walls. One CEO of a BT business unit is volunteering his time mentoring the CEO of a charitable organization.
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【notes】 1. pair…with 匹配 2. graffiti 涂鸦 3. mentor v.指导,n.导师,良师益友
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【Para 10】To give this new coordinated volunteer initiative the same strategic heft as BT's other operations, the company appointed Helen Simpson, a long-time BT executive with deep operational experience in bringing products to market, to head up the program. One of her first steps was to conduct "market research" on BT's employees to identify areas where the workforce wanted to dedicate its volunteering energies. By launching an enhanced, cohesive volunteer effort during this precarious economic period, BT hopes not just to satisfy its employees' desire for community service but leverage their skills to help not-for-profits struggling in the financial slump.
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【notes】 1. strategic heft 战略地位 2. appoint sb to head up the program 委派某人来领导这个项目 3. cohesive 紧密结合的,引申为“集中的” 4. precarious 危险的,不确定的 |
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【Para 11】In other words, a positive payback all around.
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【Para 12】For more information on BT and Cisco's volunteer programs, download these success stories
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