 Everything should take 20 minutes 任何一件工作，都只需要20分钟。 By Brandy Jensen︱May 13, 2019 It’s the ideal amount of time for all tasks. 这正是完成所有任务的理想时间。 Think about a task you wish to or must complete, and imagine how long it should take you. If you are a right-thinking person like myself, the answer is “20 minutes.” A 10-minute task is hardly a task at all, more of a minor interruption, and anything that takes 30 minutes invites the thought that you could have watched a half-hour episode of the television instead. Twenty minutes is, objectively, the ideal amount of time — the Goldilocks number when it comes to doing things. 想一件事，一件你希望、或必须完成的事，并想象应该花多长时间能够完成。如果你是一个跟我一样思维正常的人，答案就应该是“二十分钟”。一项时间只有十分钟的任务根本不能称其为是一项任务，最多算是打了个小岔，而任何一件需要三十分钟完成的事情都会让人觉得你可以看一集长达半小时的电视连续剧了。客观地说，二十分钟是做一件事情的理想的时间，是所需消耗时间的理想数字。 I realized this recently when I was once again running late to an event — only one train ride away — because I had assumed it would take me 20 minutes to get there. I was bewildered and then upset that it took 40. 最近，在一次坐火车晚点后，我意识到了这一点。这次只是坐一趟车，我自认20分钟能到达目的地。而最后竟用了40分钟，这使我既困惑有难过。 A 20-minute commute? Delightful, unobtrusive, enough time to feel like you really committed to the idea of going somewhere else, but not so long that you need a very good reason for it. Yesterday I spent 20 minutes talking on the phone with my sainted mother, who probably disagrees that this is the perfect amount of time spent on the phone but she is wrong. My dog enjoys a brisk 20-minute walk, and this is yet another sign of her moral superiority. 二十分钟的通勤时间？既愉快又不招摇，让你又足够的时间认定自己正前往某地，但也没有花费长到需要有理由的时间。昨天我花了二十分钟与我的母上大人通电话，她没准儿不同意这是最佳的通话时间，但事实证明她错了。我的狗狗每次都享受二十分钟的轻松愉快的散步，这让她感觉到自己很优越感。 unobtrusive：不张扬的;不招摇的 brisk：轻快的 “Aha, but what about drinks with friends? Surely 20 minutes is not sufficient to bask in the glow of amiable companionship?” Easy — each drink should take 20 minutes, multiply as necessity demands. This works for eating out as well: 20 minutes for an appetizer, 20 minutes for the main course, 20 minutes for dessert, etc. “啊哈，但与朋友喝酒，二十分钟的时间够吗？当然，二十分钟远不足以沉浸在亲密的友谊中，” 但也容易 — 喝每一杯酒用二十分钟，根据需要翻倍增加时间就好了。这同样也适合外出就餐：开胃菜二十分钟，主菜二十分钟，最后甜点二十分钟等等。 amiable：亲切友好的 In fact, all longer endeavors should be broken down into 20-minute intervals to make life more bearable. If you must write a book, and chances are you should not but that hardly stops people, you should do it 20 minutes at a time. Do 20 minutes of cardio then 20 minutes of some other gym thing. 事实上，所有较长时间的工作都应该用二十分钟区隔一下，以此得以更好的享受生活。如果你要写一本书，你可以每写二十分钟停下来休息一会儿，你也许不该这样做，但人们几乎都会这样做。做二十分钟的有氧运动，然后二十分钟的其他健身活动。 The only things that justify spending more than 20 minutes on them are the ones you do to avoid putting in your twenty minutes doing something unpleasant. Read for as long as you like, binge television to your heart’s content, but eventually you must spend exactly 20 minutes cleaning your bathroom. 唯一需要花费超过二十分钟去做的事情，就是你要避免用这样的二十分钟去做出一些不愉快的事情。读书可以不管时间，或者狂看你喜欢的电视节目，但最终你必须花二十分钟清洁你的浴室。 It has now taken me 18 minutes to write this blog, so it’s time to wrap things up. To paraphrase the esteemed Dominic Toretto, we should all be living life 20 minutes at a time. 现在我花了十八分钟写这篇博客，所以是时候该收尾了。备受尊敬的多米尼克 托雷托先生的理论是，我们都应该一次就活20分钟。 paraphrase： Dominic Toretto：《速度与激情》里面的男主人公 过多的屏幕时间会对幼儿的大脑产生持久的影响。英语读头条（第500期） 上午10到12点，是Amazon的CEO安排高智商会议的时间。英语读头条（第446期） 👇 |
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