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Time-management tips
时间管理技巧
Work around procrastination.
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 increments, 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 opposition.
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' embittered 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。
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