每日英语(第八期)

just get on with it!拒绝拖延，立刻行动
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form doing the housework to writing an assignment, there’s always something ican put off until tomorrow.
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无论是做家务还是写作业，我总想把事情推到明天再做。
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being a procrastinator is quite easy. there are so many other more interesting distractions such as watching funny cat videos on the internet or catching up with friends on social media.
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做一个拖延症患者很简单。总有许多各种各样有趣的事情会干扰我们，例如在网上看有趣的猫咪视频，亦或是在社交媒体上跟朋友闲聊等等。
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but benjamin franklin, one of the founding fathers of the united states, once said that: “you may delay, but time will not.”
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但是，正如美国开国元勋之一本杰明.富兰克林所说：“你可以拖延，但时间不会。”
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in other words, the time we waste now is gone forever — so maybe i should pull my socks up and get on with what i should be doing.
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换句话说，我们现在浪费的时间已经一去不复返了。所以，我们应该现在就行动起来，继续做我应该做的事情。
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the reason why many of us delay doing something is that we live for the present not the future.
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我们许多人之所以会有拖延症，是因为我们只为眼前而活，不考虑将来。
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we are reluctant to engage in tasks that relate to the future — sorti

ng something out now that will benefit us in the future doesn’t seem like a priority.
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我们不愿意做一些要等到以后才会看到成效的事，总觉得解决这些事项似乎并不着急。
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daphna oyserman, professor of psychology at the university of southern california, says that “many things that are quite important about the future require that we start doing things now rather than waiting for later to happen … waiting till later means that we won’t have much time.”
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南加州大学心理学教授daphna oyserman说：“许多对未来非常重要的事情需要我们现在就开始行动，而不是一天拖一天……一直拖延的话，最后时间根本来不及。”
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so get on with it now rather than have a last-minute panic later!
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因此，现在就行动吧，不要等到最后一分钟再来着急了！

put off? 拖迟；拖延；延期
catch up with sb.? 和…叙旧；和…闲聊
social media? 社交媒体（具体形式有博客、维基、博客、论坛、社交网络、内容社区等）
fouding father of the united states? 美国开国元勋
in other word? 换句话说；也就是说
get on with? 继续做（某事）
be reluctant to? 不情愿做…；不愿意做…
engage in? 参加；从事；忙于
sort out? 解决；处理；理清；澄清；分类；整理
university of southern california? 南加利福尼亚大学（美国西海岸最古老的顶尖私立研究型大学）
rather than? 而不是…，而非…
get on with? 继续做（某事）