现在是星期四深夜了当我想著眼前的英文作业时

现在是星期四深夜了当我想著眼前的英文作业时 It is late Thursday night. My eyelids droop as I think about the English assignment before me: write an introductory paragraph to an essay on one of the five selected topics. I give some thought to the topics, but soon I find my eyes, as well as my mind, wandering to the mosquito bites on my leg. 現在是星期四深夜了。當我想著眼前的英文作業時,眼皮就垂了下去,作業是根據五個備選題目中的一個來寫一段文章的引言。我稍微思考一下這些題目,但很快地我發現自己的眼睛和心思漫遊到腿上被蚊子叮咬的傷痕。 "How did they get there?" I think. Next, I notice a stain on the shirt I am wearing. "How did that get there?" I wonder. Then, my eyes wander to the clock. Suddenly, I am pulled back to reality as I realize that in a matter of hours, I will be sitting in English class, and I haven't even started on my paragraph. 我心裡想著:「這是怎麼來的,」。接著,我注意到身上穿的襯衫上有個污點。我想知道:「這又是怎麼來的,」。然後,我的目光飄向(漫遊)時鐘。突然間,當我了解到再過幾個小時,我就要上英文課了,而我甚至還沒開始寫那個段落,我才被拉回現實中 This is a classic situation for me. I have managed to put off writing this paragraph all afternoon, just as I manage to put off nearly all my assignments for hours, days, and even weeks. When time runs out, I am always in trouble. Henry David Thoreau once said, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." Because of my procrastination, I belong to that same mass. As a result, I waste a large amount of valuable time, and I always find myself one step behind in life. 對我而言,這是典型的狀況。整個下午,我一直試著拖延不去寫這段落, 正如同我以往設法將幾乎所有的作業都拖延數小時、數天甚至數星期一樣。 而當時間用完時,我總是有麻煩了。亨利?大衛?梭羅曾說過: 大多數的人都過著逆來順受、疲於應付的生活。」因為我的拖拖拉拉,我也屬於這種人。結果,我浪費了許多寶貴的時間,還發現自己總是在生活中落後一步。 The results of my procrastination can be summed up in Edward Young's statement: "Procrastination is the thief of time." I spend more time thinking up weak excuses for why I can't do an assignment than actually working on the assignment itself. The ways I avoid an assignment include calling my friend for the eleventh time in a day or watching a television show meant for a four-year-old, and they definitely leave something to be desired. 我拖拖拉拉的結果可以用愛德華?楊的話來被總結:「拖延是時間的小偷。」我花了比實際用在做作業更多的時間,來替自己為何無法做作業想些牽強的藉口。而我避免做作業的方式的確有待改善,這些方式包含一天之內打第11通電話給我的朋友,或是看要給4歲小孩看的電視節目。 Procrastination also causes me to waste time when I finally get down to the task I have been avoiding. The simplest task takes up extreme proportions in my mind because of the panic I feel for having put it off for so long. I become an irrational, unclear thinker when I am rushed, and this causes me to be much slower when I am doing any task. However, the clock ticks on; it does not stop for procrastinators like me. 當我開始認真做我一直逃避的任務時,拖延的惡習也使我浪費時間。我因為作業拖延了這麼久而感到驚慌,因此連最簡單的任務(作業)都佔據了我極大部分的心思 (成了心頭重擔)。當我受催促時,我變成不理性、思路不清的人,而這使我做任何事情都變得遲緩很多。然而,時鐘滴答滴答地走著,它不會為像我這樣拖拖拉拉的人而停止。 Furthermore, being one step behind in life leaves me trying to catch up on what should have already been done. While most other students diligently do the next day's homework, I diligently do homework from the night before, or even a week earlier. Because I can never seem to do a task when it is assigned, I never get the satisfaction that comes with getting things done on time or being on top of everything. 此外,在生活中落後一步使我得試著事後補做早就應該做好的事。當大部分的學生勤奮地做隔天要交的作業時,我卻努力地做前晚、或甚至是上星期的作業。因為我似乎總是不能馬上去做規定要做的事,所以我從未得到可以準時做完事情或能掌控每件事的滿足感 Rather, I always end up feeling that I am at the bottom of a pit, trying to climb out?one late assignment at a time. However, since I am always behind, catching up on my work is like trying to walk up the down escalator?very difficult and nearly impossible. Because of procrastination, I am never free to I always find myself trapped by unfinished business live in the present; instead, from the past. 。相反地,每一次遲交一個作業,最後我總以 (覺得自己彷彿置身於一個坑底,拼命想爬出來一樣 )為收場。但是因為我總是落後,要趕上我的作業 (進度) 就像努力想要爬上一個往下的電扶梯一樣地困難且近乎不可能。因為拖拖拉拉,我從未自由自在地活在當下,相反地,我總是發現自己陷在過去所未完 成的事情中。 Thus, procrastination continues to rob me of time. My life is continually interrupted by spurts of anxiety and desperation as one deadline after another flies by. I have yet to grasp the concepts of organization and promptness. I hope that I will grasp them soon. Otherwise, I will be doomed to a life in the procrastinator's prison that I have built for myself. 因此,拖延的惡習持續剝奪我的時間。當一個又一個的截止日期飛逝,我的生活不斷地被突如其來的焦慮和絕望打亂。我還沒徹底領會有條不紊與及時行動的概念。我希望自己很快地徹底領會。否則,我將注定要活在我為自己建的那座屬於拖延者的心牢裡。