公众人物毕业演讲第186期:桑德伯格2012哈佛商学院(11)

 　　I try to be myself honest about my strengths and weaknesses

　　我努力做真实的自己 直面我的优点和缺点

　　and I encourage others to do the same

　　我会鼓励别人也这么做

　　It is all professional¹ and it is all personal

　　一切都与职业相关 也都与个人相关

　　all at the very same time

　　两者无时无刻不交融在一起

　　As part of bringing my whole self to work

　　作为带着完整的自己去上班的一部分努力

　　I recently started speaking up about

　　最近我开始公开谈论

　　the challenges² women face in the workforce³

　　女性在工作环境中面临的挑战

　　something I only had the courage to do in the last few years

　　这也是我最近几年才有勇气做的事情

　　Before this

　　在此之前

　　I did my career like everyone else does it

　　我和大家一样小心翼翼地在职场上打拼

　　I never told anyone I was a girl

　　我从没和别人强调 我是女儿身

　　Don't tell

　　不说 原则

　　I left the lights on

　　当我暂时回家照顾下孩子时

　　when I went home to do something for my kids

　　我会把办公室的灯留着

　　I locked my office door and pumped milk for my babies

　　当我锁上门在办公室边参加电话会议

　　while I was on conference⁴ calls

　　边为我的宝宝们挤奶时

　　People would ask,what's that sound?

　　有人会问 那是什么声音

　　I would say,What sound? I hear a beep

　　我会说 什么声音？我听到哔的一声

　　Oh, there's a fire truck really right outside my office

　　噢 我窗外正好有一辆消防车

　　But the lack of progress we've made in the past decade

　　然而 由于我们在上个10年取得的进展很小

　　has convinced me we need to start talking about this

　　我决定要开始公开讨论这点

　　I graduated from HBS in 1995

　　我是1995年从HBS毕业的

　　and I thought it was completely clear that by the time

　　当时我想 等到我们这届

　　someone from my year was invited to speak at this podium

　　有人被邀请到这个讲台演讲的时候

　　we would have achieved equality in the workforce

　　我们一定已经实现了工作上的男女平等

　　But women at the top C-level jobs

　　但是在C级别的工作上

　　are stuck at 15-16 percent

　　女性的比例始终停留在15%到16%

　　and have not moved in a decade

　　10年来一点都没有变化

　　Not even close to 50%

　　离50%还差很远

　　and worse no longer growing

　　而且更糟的是 已经停止增长

　　We need to acknowledge openly that

　　我们需要公开承认在执行级别的领导层

　　gender remains an issue at the highest levels of leadership

　　性别仍然是个大问题

　　The promise of equality is not equality

　　对平等的承诺不等于真正的平等

　　We need to start talking about this

　　我们需要就此进行谈论

1 professional   

adj.专业的；职业的；n.专业人员；职业运动员

参考例句：

• He is a professional tennis player.他是一名职业网球运动员。
• I need a professional to sort out my finances.我需要专业人士为我管理财务。

2 challenges   

n.挑战( challenge的名词复数 )；要求；（警卫等）查问口令；怀疑

参考例句：

• Many challenges, abroad and at home, have arrived in a single season. 国内和国外的众多挑战出现在同一个时刻。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
• The new democracies face tough challenges. 这些新兴的民主国家面临着严峻挑战。 来自辞典例句

3 workforce   

n.劳动大军，劳动力

参考例句：

• A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
• A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。

4 conference   

n.（正式的）会议；讨论

参考例句：

• We're having a conference and we'd like you to sit in.我们将举行一次会议，希望你来旁听。
• The conference will come to a close this afternoon.今天下午会议闭幕。