向前一步:第1期 导言 内心的革命(1)

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　　I got pregnant with my first child in the summer of 2004. 2004年夏天，我怀上了第一个孩子，

　　At the time, I was running the online sales and operations groups at Google. 那时，我正在负责管理谷歌公司的在线销售与运营团队。

　　I had joined the company three and a half years earlier when it was an obscure start-up  我是在3年半以前加入谷歌公司的，当时它刚刚起步，前景模糊，

　　with a few hundred employees in a run-down office building. 员工不过几百人，在一栋破烂的写字楼里办公。

　　By my first trimester, Google had grown into a company of thousands and moved into a multibuilding campus. 在我怀孕3个月时，谷歌的员工已经发展至几千人，还迁入了一个多建筑园区。

　　My pregnancy¹ was not easy. 这次怀孕很辛苦。

　　The typical morning sickness that often accompanies the first trimester affected² me every day for nine long months. 一般只在头三个月才会发生的晨吐，我在孕期的每一天都在经历。

　　I gained almost seventy pounds, and my feet swelled³ two entire shoe sizes,  这期间我的体重增加了差不多70磅，双脚肿胀得大了两个码，

　　turning into odd-shaped lumps I could see only when they were propped⁴ up on a coffee table. 形状变得很怪异，而且我只有将脚搭在咖啡桌上才能看到它们。

　　A particularly sensitive Google engineer announced that "Project Whale" was named after me. 一位颇具幽默感的谷歌工程师说，我正在酝酿一个“巨鲸”项目。

　　One day, after a rough morning spent staring at the bottom of the toilet, I had to rush to make an important client meeting. 一天早晨，在对着马桶吐了半天之后，我开车赶去见一个重要的客户。

　　Google was growing so quickly that parking was an ongoing⁵ problem, and the only spot I could find was quite far away. 谷歌的快速成长导致员工的停车问题成了大麻烦，通常我能找到的停车位都相当偏远。

　　I sprinted⁶ across the parking lot, which in reality meant lumbering⁷ a bit more quickly than my absurdly slow pregnancy crawl. 我以孕妇“冲刺”的速度穿过公司停车场，

　　This only made my nausea⁸ worse, and I arrived at the meeting praying that a sales pitch was the only thing that would come out of my mouth. 胃里越发感到恶心。进入会场时我不停地祈祷：待会儿从嘴里冒出来的，除了与销售业务相关的内容之外，千万不要有别的什么东西。

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