一项新的全球调查指出，白领们都过着这样的“赶趟儿式生活”，而这种生活是由不断的新技术压力以及越来越多需要用更少的时间和资源完成更多事情的要求压力催生出来的。

White collar workers are living a "just-in-time lifestyle," bred by the constant pressures of new technology and increased demands to do more with less time and fewer resources, a new international survey says.

他们想要成为白领。

They expect to become a white collar, says Jia.

她穿着一件白领黑外套。

She was wearing a black coat with a white collar

如今白领工人的工作时间比以前更长了。

White-collar workers now work longer hours.

许多白领，像股票经纪人和投资银行家，发现自己也失业了。

Many white-collar workers, like stock brokers and investment bankers, find themselves in the unemployment lines.

对于大多数白领而言，邮件是公司通讯最主要的工具。

For almost all white-collar jobs, email is the primary tool of corporate communication.

香港白领在工作时就常以零食充饥。

Hong Kong white-collars when work often appeases hunger by between-meal snack.

对于已选择裸辞的白领来说，重返职场的时间很重要。

To know when is the right time to go back to work is quite crucial for those job-quitters.

在今年夏天中国流行的一段视频中，上海一支业余合唱团演唱了一首献给“加班狗”的搞笑歌曲《感觉身体被掏空》，“加班狗”是对白领的谑称。

In one video that went viral this summer, an amateur Shanghai choir1 devoted2 a tongue-in-cheek song to their status as "overtime3 dogs"-a slang term for white-collar workers-entitled "My Body Is Hollowed Out."

IBM甚至正在努力消除其白领管理风格的形象。

IBM is even now trying to wash the starch out of its white-shirted management style.

白领话题：中国需不需要MBA？（上篇）

Does China need MBA?

虽然Surface将运行全世界白领员工不得不使用的微软Office套装软件，但这并不意味着这款平板电脑能够解决上述矛盾。

The fact that it will run Microsoft Office's software suite, with which cubicle dwellers worldwide are sentenced to spend their days, does not mean Surface can crack this problem.

White collar指的是从事专业方面，管理或者行政方面的工作。典型的白领就是坐在办公室的小隔间里工作的人。

Typically, white collar work is performed in an office or cubicle. And so a white collar worker is a person who performs profe