你浪费了多少上班时间?

 　　Americans who feel bored and underpaid do work hard -- at surfing the Internet and catching¹ up on gossip², according to a survey that found U.S. workers waste about 20 percent of their working day。

　　厌倦工作、又觉得薪金太低的美国人把时间都浪费到了上网和闲聊上。一项调查发现，美国人浪费了约20%的上班时间。

　　An online survey of 2,057 employees by online compensation³ company Salary.com found about six in every 10 workers admit to wasting time at work with the average employee wasting 1.7 hours of a typical 8.5 hour working day。

　　该项由在线薪酬公司网站开展的在线调查共有2057名雇员参与。调查发现，每10名员工中约有6人承认自己在上班时浪费了时间。在一个典型的8.5小时工作日中，一般员工会浪费1.7个小时。

　　Personal Internet use topped the list as the leading time-wasting activity according to 34 percent of respondents, with 20.3 percent then listing socializing with co-workers and 17 percent conducting personal business as taking up time。

　　上网是第一大浪费上班时间的活动，有34%的受访者利用上班时间上网；20.3%的受访者在上班时与同事闲聊；17%的人处理私人事务。

　　The reasons why people wasted time were varied⁴ with nearly 18 percent of respondents questioned by e-mail in June and July said boredom⁵ and not having enough to do was the main reason。

　　人们在上班时做其它事情的原因各不相同。在6月和7月的电子邮件受访者中，近18%的人称这样做的主要原因是无聊和没事可做。

　　The second most popular reason for wasting time was having too long hours (13.9 percent)， being underpaid (11.8 percent)， and a lack of challenging work (11.1 percent)。

　　第二大原因是工作时间太长(13.9%)；其次是薪资太低(11.8%)和工作缺乏挑战(11.1%)。

　　While the amount of time wasted at work seems high, Bill Coleman, chief compensation officer at Salary.com. said the numbers have improved, with the amount of time wasted dropping 19 percent since Salary.com conducted its first annual survey on slacking⁶ at work in 2005. Then workers reported wasting 2.09 hours of their working day。

　　尽管看起来被浪费的上班时间很多，但网站的薪资主管比尔·柯尔曼说，从具体数字上看，情况还是有所改观。自从2005年网站首次开展此项一年一度的调查以来，被浪费的上班时间数下降了19%。当时员工一个工作日浪费的时间为2.09小时。

　　"I think (the decline) is really a result of the economy and that there's more business, more work available and less time to sit around wondering what you are going to do with your day," Coleman told reporters。

　　科尔曼在接受记者采访时说：“我认为这是经济发展的结果。公司业务更多、需要处理的事情更多，员工们已没有多余的时间去考虑如何打发时间了。”

1 catching   

adj.易传染的，有魅力的，迷人的，接住

参考例句：

• There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
• Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。

2 gossip   

n.流言蜚语，爱说长道短的人；vi.传播流言

参考例句：

• She broadcast the gossip all over the town.她将这个流言传遍全镇。
• They spread a lot of tacky gossip about his love life.关于他的爱情生活，他们散播了许多不堪的闲言闲语。

3 compensation   

n.补偿（或赔偿）的款物，补偿，赔偿

参考例句：

• Workers who have been unfairly dismissed may claim compensation.被无理开除的工人可以要求补偿。
• Equal compensation should be given to men and women for equal work.男女同工应同酬。

4 varied   

adj.多样的，多变化的

参考例句：

• The forms of art are many and varied.艺术的形式是多种多样的。
• The hotel has a varied programme of nightly entertainment.宾馆有各种晚间娱乐活动。

5 boredom   

n.厌烦，厌倦，乏味，无聊

参考例句：

• Unemployment can drive you mad with boredom.失业会让你无聊得发疯。
• A walkman can relieve the boredom of running.跑步时带着随身听就不那么乏味了。

6 slacking   

偷懒( slack的现在分词 )； 减速； 放松

参考例句：

• The instructors were slacking on the job. 教员们对工作松松垮垮。
• He had never let a foreman see him slacking. 他从未在哪个工头面前表现出丝毫懈怠。