听写TED学地道英语 - ＜如何掌控你的自由时间＞ - 1

我们并不是通过节省时间创造想要的生活，而是先创造想要的生活，然后时间就自动节约下来了。

 

And I would like to blame them for my occasional tardiness

---- tardiness ['tɑ:dɪnəs] (注意发音)缓慢，拖拉

 

I was once late to my own speech on time management

---- late to…  在…事上迟到

---- speech + on…

 

We all had to just take a moment together and savor that irony.

---- savor(savour) 尽情享受，品尝(if you savor an experience, you enjoy it as much as you can; if you savor food or drink, you eat or drink it slowly in order to taste its full flavor and do enjoy it properly)

---当时大家只得一起体会了一下其中的讽刺意味

 

The second they assume is that I have lots of tips and tricks for saving bits of time here and there.

---- the second they assume

---- bits of time

---- here and there

 

Sometimes I’ll hear from maganizes that are doing a story along these lines generally on how to help the readers find an extra hour in the day.

---- hear from…收到…的来信

---- doing a story 写故事/编故事

---- along these line 按照这样的思路(一行一行写在纸上的思路)

---- in the day 在白天

 

And the idea is that we’ll shave bits of time off everyday activities, add it up, and we’ll have time for good staff.

---- the idea is that…

---- shave … off… 从…刨掉(shave：剃须，刮脸，削掉，刨掉，少量削减)

---- add…up 累计起来

 

I question the entire premise of this piece, but I’m always interested in hearing what they’ve come up with before they call me.

---- question the entire premise 质疑整个前提

---- be interested in + ing

---- this piece 指前面提到的某个概念

---- come up with 提出，想出，赶上

 

Doing errands where you only have to make right-hand turns…

---- errand (短程)差使(An errand is a short trip that you make in order to do a job, for example, when you go to a shop buy something.)

                    跑腿(If you run an errand for someone, you do or get something for them, usually by making a short trip somewhere)

----make right-hands turn 右转

 

Being extremely judicious in microwave usage: it says three to three-and-a-half minutes on the package.

---- be judicious in  judicious  法庭的，法官的，司法的，审判的；公众的，明断的

----it says…on package 包装上是这样说明的

 

We are totally getting the bottom side of that

---- get the bottom side 这里指微波炉说明书说要叮3~3分半钟时，就只叮3分钟(取这个范围的底部值)

 

And my personal favourite, which makes sense on some level, is to DVR your favourity shows.

---- make sense on some level 在某种程度上起作用

----DVR – Digital Video Recorder 录像机   此处作动词用，意为录下你最爱看的电视

 

So you can fast-forward through the commercials.

---- fast-forward through  通过快进而跳过(广告)

---- commercials 商业广告

 

That way, you save about eight minutes ever half hour.

---- That way (地道用法)那样的话

---- ever half hour

 

So in the course of two hours of watchling TV,

---- in the course of 在…的过程中

---- two hours of + ing

 

You know another way to find 32 minutes to… Don’t watch two hours TV a day.

---- another way to

---- find 32 minutes to…

---- two hours TV  直接two hours + TV

 

Any way, the idea is we’ll save bits of time here and there, add it up, we’ll finally get to everything we want to do.

---- the idea is + …

---- get to everything 做到任何事情

 

I think this idea has it completely backward.

---- has it backward 使其落后

---- 我认为这个理论彻底落后了

 

We don’t build the lives we want by saving time, we build the live we want, and then time saves itself.

---- build the lives

---- time saves itself

---- 我们并不是通过节省时间创造想要的生活，而是先创造想要的生活，然后时间就自动节约下来了。

 

Here is what I mean

---- 接下来我会说明

 

I recently did a time diary project, looking at 1001 days in the lives of extremely busy women.

---- time diary project 时间记录项目

---- in the lives of

 

They had demanding jobs, sometimes their own business, kids to care for, maybe parents to care for, community commitments…

---- demanding  (工作)要求高的，费力的，(人)苛求的，难满足的

• A demanding job or task requires a lot of your time, energy or attention.
• People who are demanding are not easily satisfied or pleased.

---- community commitments 社区服务

 

Busy, busy people

---- 非常非常忙的人

 

I had them keep track of their time for a week so I could add up how much they worked and slept, and interviewed them about their…

---- had sb do…  (不要只会用let)

---- keep track of  记录，跟踪

---- add up

---- interview them about

 

One of the women whose time log…

---- time log

 

She goes out of a Wednesday night for something. She comes home to find that her water heater has broken.

---- of a Wednesday night

---- come home to find…  

---- water heater 热水器