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　　：舊衣也有新穿法

　　These days, Ann Fitzpatrick, director of the personal-shopping team at the Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills, cleans out her closet with surgical precision.

　　比佛利山的薩克斯第五大道店個人購物組的負責人安·菲茨帕特里克正在整理她的衣櫃，她的動作麻利，像做外科手術般精準。

　　Thirteen years ago, before she moved into a home with smaller closets, Ms. Fitzpatrick purged her wardrobe of pieces she no longer needed. She has regretted the loss ever since. “I am still pining for those pieces I let go that are not replaceable,”says Ms. Fitzpatrick, who spent many years helping clients shop and weed through their closets and now oversees the service.

　　十三年前，在她搬進一個衣櫃較小的房子前，她清理衣櫃的時候丟掉了一些不再需要的衣服。那以後，她後悔不迭。這些年來，她一直在為客戶買衣服、在清理衣櫃方面提供諮詢服務，如今她已是這項業務的負責人了。她說，當年被她扔掉的那些衣服是無法替代的，她現在仍時不時地想起它們。

　　As a result, Ms. Fitzpatrick now makes sure to hold onto beloved pieces that are in good shape. She has learned, she says, that alterations can easily update looks.

　　因此，現在，只要衣服還有型，她就絕不會丟掉這些心愛的寶貝。她說，她已經懂得了稍微變一下就可以輕鬆地讓舊衣換新顏。

　　She changes buttons on old cardigans and jackets to create a more modern look and hashemline',event***">hemlines taken down or up as the style dictates; on one Calvin Klein skirt, she has let the hem out twice. If she has a hole in a cashmere sweater, she often looks for an artisan who canreweave it.

　　她會變換舊開衫毛衣和夾克上的鈕釦，讓衣服樣子看起來更時尚，還會隨時尚潮流的變化，調整衣服的下襬長度。她曾經把一件CK 襯衫的下襬調整過好幾次。如果她的一件開司米毛衣上有個洞，她通常會找手工師傅把洞補起來。

　　Avoiding large purges, she weeds through her wardrobe every season, getting rid of items such as shoes with worn-out toes or chipped heels，sweaters that can’t be rewoven. She also weeds out items that don’t fit or have colors she no longer likes.

　　為了避免衣服堆得太多，她每季都會清理衣櫃，整理出那些腳趾部分磨損嚴重或鞋跟磨壞了的鞋子，或者是破了洞沒法再補的毛衣。她還會整理出那些不再合身或者顏色過時的衣物。

　　She’ll let her two daughters have first pick of the cast-offs and then will give the rest to charities. Nothing gets thrown away. “I believe that there has got to be a home for any of the things I’ve owned,” Ms. Fitzpatrick says.

　　她首先會讓自己的兩個女兒從她不要的衣服裡挑出她們想要的，然後把剩下的捐給慈善機構。她再也不會輕易丟掉任何東西。她說，“我認為，我曾擁有過的每樣東西都應該有個家。”

　　：公司白領的極限點

　　Do you have a‘breaking point’for your life—a point where long work hours send you over the edge into work-family conflict?

　　你生活中是否會出現“崩潰點”，長時間工作會不會讓你感到家庭和工作的衝突把你逼到崩潰的邊緣?

　　Based on new research on 22,436 IBM employees in 75 countries, many people do, and that breaking point varies dramatically based on whether employees are free to work from home part of the time, or not.

　　對IBM 公司在75 個國家的22,436 名員工進行的一項研究表明，很多人的生活中都會出現“崩潰點”;根據員工是否可以有部分時間在家辦公，“崩潰點”差異很大。

　　In a startling finding, researchers discovered telecommuters on flextime schedules can cram in 19 more hours of work a week, compared with people who work entirely in the office, before they begin to report work-family conflict. The study was co-authored by E. Jeffrey Hill, a professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University and a long-time researcher on work-family issues.

　　調查結果令人驚訝。研究人員發現，相比在辦公室中工作的人，安排更有彈性的遠端工作者每週可以多擠出19 個小時工作，之後才會出現工作上的“崩潰點”。研究的主持者之一是楊百翰大學家庭生活學院教授、工作家庭問題資深研究人希爾。

　　Those who did all their work in the office began to complain of work-family conflict after 38 hours of work. However, those who were able to extend their workday from home by telecommuting, rather than putting in longer hours at the office, could log 57 total hours before starting to feel the strain, counting both hours at the office and at home, Dr. Hill found. The hourly tallies are based on the point at which 25% of each of the two groups of employees-the office-bound workers and thetelecommuters on flextime-reported work-family conflict.

　　希爾博士發現，整天在辦公室待著的員工在工作38 個小時後開始抱怨工作與家庭出現衝突。不過希爾發現，那些不需要整天呆在辦公室、可以選擇遠端辦公的人在工作57 個小時後才會開始抱怨***把在辦公室和在家工作的時間都計算在內***。時間的計算是根據兩組員工中——在辦公室工作和實行彈性工作制、在家辦公的人——各有25%表示工作與家庭出現衝突的時間。研究結果將發表在本月的《家庭心理學期刊》上。

　　This basic pattern rings true to me. Since I began telecommuting years ago, I have found I could happily log longer work weeks than when I was confined to the newsroom. The size of the 19-hour gap in this study, however—about two additional workdays a week—is surprising.

　　這個研究結果在我看來是真實的。多年前開始在家辦公，我發現比起成天悶在編輯部裡，我可以快樂地工作更長時間。不過，我得承認，研究中顯示19 個小時差距——相當於每週多兩天——著實讓人吃驚。