精?/p>
TED
演讲英文文稿
Procrastination/
pr
əʊˌkræstɪ
'ne
ɪʃ
n
/(
拖延?/p>
)
00:11
So in
college,
I was
a
government
major(
主修行政管理专业的学?/p>
), which means
I had to
write a lot of papers. Now, when a normal student writes a paper, they might spread the work
out a little(
一点点地展开工作
) like this. So, you know --
00:25
you
get started(=start) maybe a little slowly, but
you
get enough done in the first week that,
with
some
heavier(=busier)
days
later
on(infml
后来
),
everything
gets
done,
things
stay
civil
/
ˈ
s
ɪ
vl
/(
文明?/p>
)
.
00:33(Laughter
/
ˈ
l
ɑ
:ft
ə
(r)
/
笑声
)
00:34
And I would want to do that like that. That would be the plan. I would have it all ready to go,
but then, actually, the paper would come along(
出现
), and then I would kind of(
用于表示不确
定,
“有点,可以这么说?/p>
) do this.
00:45(Laughter)
00:47And that would happen every single paper.
00:50
But then came my 90-page senior thesis(/
ˈθi:sɪ
s/
毕业论文
), a paper you're supposed to spend a
year
on.
And
I
knew
for
a
paper
like
that,
my
normal
work
flow(
工作流程
)
was
not
an
option(/
ˈɒ
p
ʃ
n
/
选择
).
It
was
way(used
with
prep
or
adv.
非常
)
too
big
a
project.
So
I
planned
things out(
精心安排,筹?/p>
), and I decided I kind of had to go something like this. This is how
the year would go. So I'd start off(
开?/p>
) light(ad.
轻松?/p>
), and I'd bump it up(to increase sth.)
in the middle months, and then at the end, I would kick it up into high gear(/
g
ɪ
ə
(r
)
/
全力冲刺
)
just like a little staircase. How hard could it be to walk up the stairs? No big deal(
没什么大?/p>
了的
), right?