英语专业晨读美文文化篇（MP3+文本，30份）

英语专业晨读美文文化篇:午睡吧，不是罪过(美音) [00:04.32]Naps [00:06.55]Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, [00:11.14]too unproductive, and it's free; [00:13.56]pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. [00:16.93]Besides, it seems to be a natural inclination. [00:20.34]Those who get paid to investigate such things [00:23.48]have proved that people deprived of daylight [00:25.57]and their wristwatches, with no notion of [00:28.41]whether it was night or day, [00:30.22]sink blissfully asleep in mid-afternoon as regular as clocks. [00:34.55]The American nap is even scarier because it's unilateral. [00:38.66]Sleeping Frenchmen are surrounded by sleeping compatriots, [00:41.83]but Americans who lie down by day stiffen [00:44.46]with the thought of the busy world rushing past. [00:47.27]There we lie, visible and vulnerable on our daylit bed, [00:51.22]ready to cut the strings and sink into the dark, [00:54.29]swirling, almost sexual currents of the impending doze, [00:57.75]but what will happen in our absence? Our stocks will fall; [01:01.45]our employees will mutiny and seize the helm; [01:04.00]our clients will tiptoe away to competitors. [01:06.63]Even the housewife, taking advantage of the afternoon lull, [01:10.40]knows at the deepest level of consciousness [01:13.16]that the phone is about to ring. [01:15.18]And of course, for those of us with proper jobs, [01:18.53]there's the problem of finding a bed. Some corporations, [01:21.97]in their concern for their employees' health and fitness, [01:24.89]provide gym rooms where we can commit [01:27.00]strenuous exercise at lunchtime, but where are our beds? [01:30.26]In Japan, the productivity wonder of [01:33.09]the industrialized world, properly run companies [01:36.35]maintain a nap room wherein the workers [01:38.97]may refresh themselves. Even in America, rumor has it, [01:42.50]the costly CEOs of giant corporations [01:45.22]work sequestered in private suites, [01:47.97]guarded by watchpersons, [01:49.55]mainly so they can