We're too busy keeping out the giraffes -- putting the kids on the bus in the morning, getting ourselves to work on time, surviving email overload and shop floor politics, foraging for groceries, throwing together meals, escaping for a couple of precious hours in the evening into prime-time TV or TED online, getting from one end of the day to the other, keeping out the giraffes.
我们忙于阻挡这些长颈鹿-- 早晨将孩子们送到公交车上， 使我们自己按时上班， 避免过量的电子邮件 还有工作上的勾心斗角， 在食品杂货店寻找食物，匆匆拼凑成一顿饭， 在晚间的几个宝贵的小时 来看黄金时段的电视 或是TED在线， 一天又一天的晚上， 将长颈鹿挡在外面。