四级Gamification is about understanding what it is that makes games engaging and what game designers do to create a great experience in games, and taking those learnings and applying them to other contexts such as the workplace and education, explains Kevin Werbach, a gamification expert who teaches at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.

Kevin Werbach解释道：“游戏化是指了解什么使游戏具有吸引力，以及游戏设计师如何在游戏中创造出色的体验，并将这些经验应用到工作场所和教育等其他环境中。”，在美国宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院任教的游戏化专家。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级In a study published last year, psychologists coined the term workplace telepressure to describe an employee's urge to immediately respond to emails and engage in obsessive thoughts about returning an email to one's boss, colleagues or clients.

在去年发表的一项研究中，心理学家创造了“工作场所远程压力”一词，用来描述员工立即回复电子邮件的冲动，以及将电子邮件回复给老板、同事或客户的强迫性想法。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Across the board, American colleges and universities are not doing a very good job of preparing their students for the workplace or their post-graduation lives.

总体而言，美国的学院和大学在让学生为工作或毕业后的生活做好准备方面做得不是很好。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级To address skyrocketing employee stress levels, many companies have implemented workplace wellness programs, partnering with health care providers that have created programs to promote employee health and well-being.

为了应对急剧上升的员工压力水平，许多公司实施了工作场所健康计划，与医疗保健提供商合作，创建了促进员工健康和福祉的计划。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级To address skyrocketing employee stress levels, many companies have implemented workplace wellness programs, partnering with health care providers that have created programs to promote employee health and well-being.

为了应对急剧上升的员工压力水平，许多公司实施了工作场所健康计划，与医疗保健提供商合作，创建了促进员工健康和福祉的计划。

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级Hospital workers in at least one case deserted their workplace in panic, thus halting the administering of potentially unclean disease spreading injections, but Ebola has not disappeared.

至少有一例患者的医院工作人员惊慌失措地离开了工作场所，从而停止了可能传播不洁疾病的注射，但埃博拉并没有消失。

2013年6月听力原文

四级A fixed mind-set can also hinder communication and progress in the workplace and discourage or ignore constructive criticism and advice.

固定的心态也会阻碍工作场所的沟通和进步，阻碍或忽视建设性的批评和建议。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级At the workplace, men use conflict as a way to position themselves, while women often avoid conflict or strive to be the peacemaker,because they don't want to be viewed as aggressive or disruptive at work.

在工作场所，男性将冲突作为一种自我定位的方式，而女性往往避免冲突或努力成为和事佬，因为她们不想在工作中被视为咄咄逼人或破坏性的人。

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

四级While the public sees greater workplace equality between men and women now than it did 20-30 years ago, most believe more change is needed.

虽然公众认为，与20-30年前相比，现在的男女在工作场所更加平等，但大多数人认为需要进行更多的改革。

2018年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级And if you suspected that the workplace had gotten more stressful than it was just a few decades ago, you're right.

如果你怀疑工作场所的压力比几十年前更大，你是对的。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级And if you suspected that the workplace had gotten more stressful than it was just a few decades ago, you're right.

如果你怀疑工作场所的压力比几十年前更大，你是对的。

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

考研Thirty years ago, it would have been inconceivable to have imagined a ban on smoking in the workplace or in pubs, and yet that is what we have now.

三十年前，想象在工作场所或酒吧里禁止吸烟是不可想象的，然而这就是我们现在所拥有的。

2011年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Gamification is not a miracle cure for all workplaces as it may have negative results.

游戏化并不是所有工作场所的灵丹妙药，因为它可能会产生负面影响。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Our modern workplaces also operate based on outdated time constraints.

我们的现代工作场所也基于过时的时间限制。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研In facts, the more new things we try- the more we step outside our comfort zone - the more inherently creative we become, both in the workplace and in our personal lives.

事实上，我们尝试的新事物越多——我们越是走出自己的舒适区——我们在工作场所和个人生活中就越具有天生的创造力。

2009年考研阅读原文

六级So much research has explored the way in which collegial ties can help overcome a range of workplace issues affecting productivity and the quality of work output such as team-based conflict, jealousy, undermining, anger, and more.

许多研究探索了大学关系如何帮助克服一系列影响生产率和工作质量的工作场所问题，如团队冲突、嫉妒、破坏、愤怒等等。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级Generous parental leave policies and readily available part-time options have unintended consequences:instead of strengthening women's attachment to the workplace,they appear to weaken it.

慷慨的育儿假政策和现成的非全日制选择产生了意想不到的后果：它们不但没有加强妇女对工作场所的依恋，反而似乎削弱了这种依恋。

2014年6月阅读原文

考研If you have a bone to pick with someone in your workplace, you may try stay tight-lipped around them.

如果你在工作场所对某人有意见，你可以试着对他们守口如瓶。

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Too many workplace policies effectively prohibit employees from developing a healthy work-life balance by barring them from taking time off, even when they need it most.

太多的工作场所政策禁止员工休假，甚至在他们最需要的时候，也有效地阻止了员工发展健康的工作与生活平衡。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Here is the most malignant threat to our personal freedom, particularly as the balance of power in the workplace has been shifted so dramatically from worker to boss.

这是对我们个人自由最严重的威胁，特别是在工作场所的权力平衡已经从工人到老板发生了巨大变化的情况下。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级Too many workplace policies effectively prohibit employees from developing a healthy work-life balance by barring them from taking time off, even when they need it most.

太多的工作场所政策禁止员工休假，甚至在他们最需要的时候，也有效地阻止了员工发展健康的工作与生活平衡。

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

考研In fact, the more new things we try - the more we step outside our comfort zone - the more inherently creative we become, both in the workplace and in our personal lives.

事实上，我们尝试的新事物越多——我们越是走出自己的舒适区——我们在工作场所和个人生活中就越具有天生的创造力。

2009年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研with the blurring of roles, and the fact that the home front lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women, it's not surprising that women are more stressed at home.

随着角色的模糊，以及家庭在为职业女性做出调整方面远远落后于工作场所这一事实，女性在家庭中的压力更大也就不足为奇了。

2015年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Being a good team player is a central skill in our modern workplace.

成为一名优秀的团队成员是我们现代工作场所的核心技能。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

考研The difference between today’s workplace and the “dress for success” era is that the range of options is so much broader.

今天的工作场所与“成功着装”时代的区别在于，选择的范围要广泛得多。

2016年考研阅读原文

考研The difference between today's workplace and the "dress for success" era is that the range of options is so much broader.

今天的工作场所与“成功着装”时代的区别在于，选择的范围要广泛得多。

2016年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Excessively skinny models have been a point of controversy for decades, and two researchers say a model's body mass should be a workplace health and safety issue.

几十年来，过度瘦削的模特一直是争议的焦点，两位研究人员表示，模特的体重应该是工作场所的健康和安全问题。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级In a study published last year, psychologists coined the term "workplace telepressure" to describe an employee's urge to immediately respond to emails and engage in obsessive thoughts about returning an email to one's boss, colleagues or clients.

在去年发表的一项研究中，心理学家创造了“工作场所远程压力”一词，用来描述员工立即回复电子邮件的冲动，以及将电子邮件回复给老板、同事或客户的强迫性想法。

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级Children from higher-income families are likely to have the skills to navigate bureaucracies and succeed in schools and workplaces, Ms.

她说，来自高收入家庭的孩子可能具备驾驭官僚机构的技能，并在学校和工作场所取得成功。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级"Gamification is about understanding what it is that makes games engaging and what game designers do to create a great experience in games, and taking those learnings and applying them to other contexts such as the workplace and education," explains Kevin

Kevin解释说：“游戏化是指了解什么使游戏具有吸引力，以及游戏设计师如何在游戏中创造出色的体验，并将这些经验应用到工作场所和教育等其他环境中。”

2016年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级But even when employees are given paid time off, workplace norms and expectations that pressure them to overwork often prevent them from taking it.

但是，即使员工有带薪休假，迫使他们过度工作的工作场所规范和期望也常常阻止他们休假。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Health problems caused by stress in the workplace result in huge public health expenses.

工作场所的压力导致的健康问题导致巨大的公共卫生支出。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级That's what we call it in the workplace, " says a woman in her 20s.

这就是我们在工作场所所说的，”一位20多岁的女性说。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级As a result, the public is divided about whether the imbalance in corporate America will change in the foreseeable future, even though women have made major advances in the workplace.

因此，尽管女性在工作场所取得了重大进步，但在可预见的未来，美国企业界的不平衡状况是否会改变，公众意见分歧。

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级The Wallaces also had a clear sense of the kind of workplace they wanted.

华莱士夫妇对他们想要的工作场所也有明确的认识。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

高考Whether in the home or the workplace, social robots are going to become a lot more common in the next few years.

无论是在家里还是在工作场所，社交机器人在未来几年将变得更加普遍。

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级Companies from Google to L'Oréal to IBM to Wells Fargo are known to use some degree of gamification in their workplaces.

众所周知，从谷歌到欧莱雅、IBM到富国银行等公司都在工作场所使用某种程度的游戏化。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级My coworkers have been worrying about health conditions and complaining about safety hazards in the workplace.

我的同事们一直担心工作场所的健康状况和安全隐患。

2011年6月听力原文

四级Some of the people who work in Songdo complain about boredom in the workplace.

在Songdo工作的一些人抱怨工作场所的无聊。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级Health and safety conditions in the workplace

工作场所的健康和安全条件

2011年6月听力原文

六级Our workplace culture, social norms and individual behaviors all play a part.

我们的工作场所文化、社会规范和个人行为都发挥了作用。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级Women struggle to say "no" in the workplace for similar reasons, including the desire to be liked by their colleagues.

女性在工作场所很难说“不”，原因与此类似，包括希望同事喜欢她们。

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

考研In our rapidly changing economy, we more than ever need people in the workplace who can take initiative and exercise their imagination "to respond to unexpected events".

在瞬息万变的经济环境中，我们比以往任何时候都更需要职场人士能够采取主动，发挥想象力“应对突发事件”。

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级It's imperative for us to embrace a workplace revolution.

我们必须拥抱职场革命。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级Workplace norms pressure employees to overwork, deterring them from taking paid time off.

工作场所规范迫使员工过度工作，阻止他们休带薪假。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级But even when employees are given paid time off, workplace norms and expectations that pressure them to overwork often prevent them from taking it.

但是，即使员工有带薪休假，迫使他们过度工作的工作场所规范和期望也常常阻止他们休假。

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级In the workplace, feedback may not be so welcome to managers with a fixed mind-set.

在工作场所，有固定心态的经理可能不太欢迎反馈。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研In a workplace that's fundamentally indifferent to your life and its meaning, office speak can help you figure out how you relate to your work—and how your work defines who you are.

在一个对你的生活及其意义根本漠不关心的工作场所，办公室演讲可以帮助你了解你与工作的关系，以及工作如何定义你是谁。

2015年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级The American Workplace Is Broken.

美国工作场所破产了。

2016年12月六级（第三套）真题

六级Children from higher-income families are likely to have the skills to navigate bureaucracies and succeed in schools and workplaces, Ms. Lareau said.

拉罗女士说，来自高收入家庭的孩子很可能具备驾驭官僚机构的技能，并在学校和工作场所取得成功。

2017年6月六级真题（卷三）

六级Studies have shown that green workplaces (ones that don’t constantly need to have the heat or air-conditioner running) have higher worker productivity and lower sick rates.

研究表明，绿色工作场所（那些不需要经常供暖或空调的工作场所）具有更高的工人生产力和更低的患病率。

2007年12月英语六级真题

四级In fact, today, experts define office politics as proper behavior used to pursue one’s own self-interest in the workplace.

事实上，今天，专家们将办公室政治定义为在工作场所追求自身利益的适当行为。

2004年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级In many cases, this involves some form Of Socializing within the office environment—not just in large companies, but in small workplaces as well.

在许多情况下，这涉及到办公室环境中的某种形式的社交——不仅在大公司，在小工作场所也是如此。

2004年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级As the world becomes smaller and our workplaces more diverse, it is becoming essential to expand our under-standing of others and to reexamine some of our false assumptions .

随着世界越来越小，我们的工作场所越来越多样化，扩大我们对他人的了解并重新审视我们的一些错误假设变得至关重要。

2009年6月英语四级考试真题

四级For inroads (进展) to be made, say the authors in their statement, people have to be better educated about the hazards of sugar and agree that something’s got to change: Many of the interventions (干预) that have reduced alcohol and tobacco consumption can be models for addressing the sugar problem, such as imposing special sales taxes, controlling access, and tightening licensing requirements on vending machines (自动售货机) and snack-bars sell high sugar products in schools and workplaces.

对于入侵(进展) 作者在声明中说，要做到这一点，人们必须更好地了解糖的危害，并同意必须改变一些事情：

2012年12月大学英语四级真题试卷（1）

四级But does it really provide the protection in the workplace that parliament intended?

但它真的能在工作场所提供议会想要的保护吗？

2012年12月大学英语四级真题(3)

四级To access your rights under the DDA and to request “reasonable adjustments” to your working conditions or your workplace requires disclosure.

要获取您在DDA下的权利，并要求对您的工作条件或工作场所进行“合理调整”，需要披露。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题(3)

四级Heckman would like to see more apprenticeship-style (学徒式) programs, where kids can learn in the workplace — learn not just specific job skills, but the kind of “soft skills, like getting to work on time and getting along with a team, that are crucial for career success.

赫克曼希望看到更多的学徒风格(学徒式) 孩子们可以在工作场所学习的项目——不仅学习特定的工作技能，还学习对职业成功至关重要的“软技能”，比如按时上班和与团队相处。

2013年12月大学英语四级考试真题(第3套)

四级Much ink has been spilled in management books discussing how to get the most out of these youths in the workplace.

在讨论如何在工作场所充分利用这些年轻人的管理书籍中，已经有很多墨水溢出。

2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级“Gamification is about understanding what it is that makes games engaging and what game designers do to create a great experience in games, and taking those learnings and applying them to other contexts such as the workplace and education,” explains Kevin Werbach, a gamification expert who teaches at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.

在美国宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院任教的游戏化专家Kevin Werbach解释道：“游戏化是指了解是什么让游戏引人入胜，以及游戏设计师如何在游戏中创造良好体验，并将这些知识应用于工作场所和教育等其他环境。”。

2016年12月大学英语四级真题（第3套）

四级Companies from Google to L’Oreal to IBM to Wells Fargo are known to use some degree of gamification in their workplaces.

众所周知，从谷歌到欧莱雅，从IBM到富国银行，这些公司都在工作场所使用某种程度的游戏化。

2016年12月大学英语四级真题（第3套）

四级Women struggle to say “no in the workplace for similar reasons, including the desire to be liked by their colleagues.

出于类似的原因，女性在工作场所很难说“不”，包括希望得到同事的喜欢。

2017年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第1套）

四级At the workplace, men use conflict as a way to position themselves, while women often avoid conflict or strive to be the peacemaker, because they don't want to be viewed as aggressive or disruptive at work.

在工作场所，男性利用冲突来定位自己，而女性往往避免冲突或努力成为和事佬，因为她们不想在工作中被视为好斗或破坏性的人。

2017年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第1套）

四级Among Millennial women, 75% say this country needs to continue making changes to achieve gender equality in the workplace, compared with 57% of Millennial men.

在千禧一代女性中，75%的人表示，这个国家需要继续做出改变，以实现工作场所的性别平等，而千禧一代男性中这一比例为57%。

2018年6月大学英语四级真题（第3套)

四级That’s what we call it in the workplace,” says a woman in her 20s.

这就是我们在工作场所所说的，”一位20多岁的女性说道。

2019年12月大学英语四级真题（第3套）

四级Does a person's own perception of body image matter to earnings and other indicators of success in the workplace?

一个人对身体形象的感知是否与收入和其他职场成功指标有关？

2020年9月大学英语四级真题（第1套）

考研However, their presence in the workplace is growing.

然而，他们在工作场所的影响力正在增长。

1990年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研The employment of women is expanding considerably in services, next to the public administration and commerce as their principal workplace.

妇女在服务业的就业人数正在大幅增加，其次是公共行政和商业，这是她们的主要工作场所。

1990年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研New ways of organizing the workplace -- all that re-engineering and downsizing -- are only one contribution to the overall productivity of an economy, which is driven by many other factors such as joint investment in equipment and machinery, new technology, and investment in education and training.

组织工作场所的新方式——所有这些重新设计和缩小规模——只是对经济整体生产力的一种贡献，而生产力是由许多其他因素驱动的，如设备和机械的联合投资、新技术以及教育和培训的投资。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研In fact, the more new things we try — the more we step outside our comfort zone — the more inherently creative we become, both in the workplace and in our personal lives.

事实上，我们尝试的新事物越多——我们越是走出舒适区——我们在工作场所和个人生活中就越有创造力。

2009年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题