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《华尔街日报》日前在社论版抱怨:“美国人工作得太辛苦”。作者愤愤不平地搬出了经合组织的统计数据:与同等经济发展水平和生活水准的西欧国家相比,每位15-64岁的美国人,劳作时间是西欧人的1.5倍。倘若只看“壮劳力”层,即25-45岁的成年人,美国人和西欧人的辛苦程度的差距恐怕还要大。其实不用这么具体的数字,就是在日常相处之中,也能随时感受到美国人的辛苦。记者住在华盛顿地区的商业金融中心罗斯林,举目所及,皆是美国中产阶级的生活场景。华盛顿各类机构的作息时间,差不多都是“朝九晚五”。但记者每天早晨七点起床时,都会看见对面写字楼里人影绰绰,有不少人已经
The Wall Street Journal recently complained in editorial: “Americans work too hard.” The author moved out of OECD statistics with indignation: compared to Western European countries at the same level of economic development and quality of life, each American aged 15-64 worked 1.5 times as long as Western Europeans. The difference in the level of hard work between Americans and Western Europeans is probably even greater if we look at the layers of 'hard work', that is, adults aged 25-45. In fact, it is not necessary to have such a specific figure, that is, we can feel the hard work of the Americans at any time during their daily life. Reporters living in the Washington area of commercial financial center Roslin, as you see it, are all middle-class American life scene. The working hours of various agencies in Washington are almost the same. But reporters get up at seven o'clock every morning, will see the impressive office buildings opposite, there are many people already