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Desk rage: The health condition that blights office workers everywhere.
办公室的桌怒：一种折磨着世界各地上班族的健康问题
A recent piece of research revealed that as many as one in five people in Britain suffers from "misophonia", a condition in which certain sounds cause them disproportionate distress.
最近的一项研究显示，在英国，多达五分之一的人有"恐音症"，即某些声音会给他们带来极大的痛苦。
If you can listen to your spouse eating an apple and don't immediately want a divorce, you are not a sufferer of misophonia. But you may have another, similar condition for which the workplace is the perfect breeding-ground.
如果你听见你的另一半吃苹果的声音，不会让你想立刻离婚，那么你就没有恐音症。但你也可能有另一种类似的情况，办公环境是滋生这种情况的完美温床。
"Misergonia" (colloquial shorthand: desk rage) is the name hereby bestowed on the eye-gougingly deep irritation triggered by certain aspects of office life.
"恐工症"(口语简称为桌怒)是对让人怒目的强烈愤怒情绪的称呼，这种烦躁情绪是由办公室生活的某些方面引发的。
Like misophonia, sounds are often the trigger for misergonia. The routine fire-alarm test is a case in point.
和恐音症一样，声音往往是恐工症的导火索。例行的火警测试就是一个很好的例子。
"Attention please, attention please," shouts a voice that is literally impossible to ignore. "This is a test," it roars, making it clear that your attention is not in fact required. More shouting and eardrum-piercing noises follow.
"请注意，请注意。"一个不可能不被注意的声音喊道。"这是测试。"这个咆哮的声音又清楚地告诉你，实际上并不需要你的注意。接着就是更多的喊叫声和穿透耳膜的噪音。
Then, most galling of all, a message of thanks for your attention, the aural equivalent of a prison thanking you for choosing them for a stay. By the end of it all, a conflagration would be sweet release.
然后，最让人恼火的是发来一条消息感谢你的关注，这简直相当于一座听觉监狱感谢你选择在此暂住。等到一切都结束时，一场大火倒会是甜蜜的解脱。
Other noises are less obviously intrusive but just as annoying. The noise of clicking keys is the soundtrack of cubicles everywhere.
其他噪音没有这么明显的侵入性，但同样令人讨厌。敲键盘的声音是格子间的统一配乐。
But every office has its share of keyboard thumpers, people whose goal seems to be not producing a document but destroying the equipment before one can be created.
但每个办公室都有砸键盘的人，他们的目标似乎不是创建一份文档，而是在文档还没完成的时候就把设备砸烂。
Verbal tics are another tripwire for misergonia sufferers. "This is a point that has already been made," is how weirdly large numbers of people start to make a point that has already been made. Why not just say "I don't value your time" and have done with it?
口头禅是恐工症患者的另一个雷区。"这个观点已经被人提过了"，多到离谱的人会说完这句话后，开始提出一个别人已经提过的观点。为什么不干脆说"我不珍惜你的时间"，然后直接结束呢？
Small IT failures are a fact of office life, but they can still be soul-destroying. The printer which jams repeatedly. The design requirement in said printer that demands every flap and tray must be opened once before things can restart.
各种信息技术方面的小故障是办公室生活中不可避免的，但这些故障仍然能消磨精神。总是卡纸的打印机。上述打印机要求重新启动之前，每个翻盖和托盘必须打开一次。
The headphones that never work. Or the mouse that gives up at just the wrong moment. Your cursor is two centimetres from the unmute button on a Zoom call; you move your mouse towards it when it is your turn to speak, and nothing happens.
从来不管用的耳机。或者关键时候掉链子的鼠标。在Zoom上开会的时候，你的光标距离取消静音按钮只有两厘米，轮到你发言时，你把鼠标移过去，但没有任何反应。
You rattle it around more vigorously, and still no response. Either your cursor is in a coma or the battery has run out. "You're still on mute," offers up a colleague helpfully. Someone else fills the gap. "This is a point that has already been made…," they begin.
你更用力地摇晃鼠标，还是没有反应。要么是光标处于昏迷状态，要么是电池没电了。"你还在静音。"一位同事给出了很有帮助的提醒。其他人补位发言。"这个观点已经被人提过了......"他们开口说。
