午睡的习惯

王姐，现在才十二点半，办公室怎么这么安静？灯也关了，好像没有人在。

Wang Jie, it's only 12:30, why is the office so quiet? The lights are off too, it's like there's nobody here.

大家都在午睡呢。我们公司每天中午有二十分钟的午睡时间，十二点半灯就会关。

Everyone's napping. Our company has a twenty-minute nap time every day at noon, the lights go off at 12:30.

真的吗？我以前工作的地方没有午睡的习惯，这是我第一次看到。

Really? The place I worked before didn't have a napping habit. This is my first time seeing it.

这个习惯从小学就有了。我们上学的时候，中午吃完饭，老师也会让我们午睡二十分钟。

This habit goes back to elementary school. When we were in school, after lunch, the teacher would also have us nap for twenty minutes.

我小时候也午睡，长大以后就没有了。现在我怕自己没办法很快睡觉，二十分钟对我来说可能太短了。

I napped as a kid too, but once I grew up it stopped. Now I'm worried I won't be able to fall asleep quickly, twenty minutes might be too short for me.

这个我懂。不是每个人都能马上睡觉，也不是每个人都很困。有的人二十分钟就醒了，有的人不困，就不用真的睡觉，闭着眼睛休息一下也是午睡。

I get that. Not everyone can fall asleep right away, and not everyone is sleepy either. Some people wake up after twenty minutes, some people aren't sleepy and don't need to actually sleep, closing your eyes and resting counts as napping too.

只是闭着眼睛，不是真的睡觉，这样也可以吗？

Just closing your eyes, not actually sleeping, is that okay too?

可以。我觉得很多同事也是这样，闭着眼睛，好好休息，不一定真的睡觉。重要的是安静，不是睡觉。

Sure. I think a lot of colleagues are like that too, closing their eyes and resting well, not necessarily really sleeping. What matters is the quiet, not the sleeping.

那闭着眼睛休息，和真的午睡，是一样的吗？

So resting with your eyes closed, and actually napping, are they the same?

差不多一样。午睡真的有用，不午睡的话，我下午会很困，工作效率也不高。但是只要闭着眼睛，安安静静二十分钟，下午的效率也会好一点。

Pretty much the same. Napping really works, if I don't nap I get really sleepy in the afternoon and my work efficiency isn't high either. But as long as I rest quietly with my eyes closed for twenty minutes, the afternoon's efficiency improves too.

好，那我今天也试试。但是我怕自己太困，二十分钟以后还没醒。

Okay, I'll try it today too. But I'm worried I'll be too sleepy and still won't have woken up after twenty minutes.

不会的，你放心。时间到了，办公室的灯会开，灯一开，大家就都醒了。

That won't happen, don't worry. When the time's up, the office lights turn on, and once the lights turn on, everyone wakes up.

好，我现在就试试，谢谢你告诉我这些。

Okay, I'll try it now. Thanks for telling me all this.

不客气。醒了以后，你告诉我，你的效率是不是真的不一样。

You're welcome. After you wake up, tell me whether your efficiency is really different.