时间管理技巧-克服拖延症(6)

 　　每期节目一话题，让英语磨练耳朵的同时学到更多有益的小知识，丰富知识的同时受益于生活。

　　Time-management tips

　　时间管理技巧

　　Work around procrastination¹.

　　克服拖延症。

　　Try Francesco Cirillo's Pomodoro Technique. Pomodoro is Italian for tomato, and the technique's name refers tothe tomato-shaped cooking timer Cirillo used to break his work into 25-minuteincrements with five-minute breaks in between. You can use the same idea with your own increments², as long as they inspire bursts of hard work.

　　试试弗朗西斯科·齐立罗的番茄工作法。齐立罗用番茄形状的厨房定时器将自己的工作时间设置为每工作25分钟休息5分钟，这也是这套工作法名字的来源。

　　Break down a massive task intomanageable blocks.

　　将任务量大的任务分成几个小任务。

　　Alabamafootball coach Nick Saban follows a similar philosophy he calls theProcess. Instead of having his players focus on winning the championship, hetrains them to focus on only what is directly in front of them.

　　亚拉巴马州橄榄球教练尼克·塞班采用的就是类似方法。他不会让运动员只想着赢得锦标赛，而是让他们专注眼前。

　　【知识点讲解】

　　Break down 失败； 划分（以便分析）； 损坏； 衰弱下来

　　例句：

　　The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition³.

　　警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗.

　　His early experience enabled him to break down barriers between Scottish Catholics and Protestants.

　　他早年的经历使他能够消除苏格兰天主教徒和新教徒之间的隔阂。

　　When marriages break down children are swept into the vortex of their parents' embittered⁴ emotions.

　　当婚姻破裂时，孩子们也被卷进父母感情日益恶化的漩涡中。

1 procrastination   

n.拖延，耽搁

参考例句：

• Procrastination is the father of failure. 因循是失败的根源。
• Procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延就是浪费时间。

2 increments   

n.增长( increment的名词复数 )；增量；增额；定期的加薪

参考例句：

• These increments were mixed and looked into the 5.56mm catridge case. 将各种药粒进行混和，装在5．56毫米的弹壳中。 来自辞典例句
• The Rankine scale has scale increments equal to the FahrenheIt'scale. 兰氏温标的温度间距与华氏温标的相同。 来自辞典例句

3 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

4 embittered   

v.使怨恨，激怒( embitter的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• These injustices embittered her even more. 不公平使她更加受苦。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The artist was embittered by public neglect. 大众的忽视于那位艺术家更加难受。 来自《简明英汉词典》