日常生活管理：实干家都会制定待办事项清单？

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[00:12.38]Neil: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English, I'm Neil. And joining me it's Rob. 大家好，欢迎收听六分钟英语，我是尼尔。和我一同主持节目的是罗伯。
[00:16.96]Rob: Hello. 大家好。
[00:17.75]Neil: Now Rob, would you say you're someone who is quite organised?	罗布，你会说你自己是一个做事很有条理的人吗？
[00:21.40]Rob: I'd like to think so.	我想我会这么说自己。
[00:22.84]Neil: What's the best way to organise everything?	组织安排每件事的最好方式是什么？
[00:24.95]Rob: You need a 'to-do' list - a list of all the jobs you need to do that you can work your way through.	你需要一个“待办事项清单”――即一张列满你所有需要做并且自己能处理的事项的清单。
[00:30.55]Neil: That's a good idea and something we can include in today's discussion about life admin. 这是个好主意，我们可以在今天的关于“生活管理”的讨论中囊括这项内容。
[00:35.62]Admin is short for administration - that describes the activities and tasks you have to do to make a business or organisation run smoothly - ・Admin(管理)是administration(管理)的缩写，这个词描述的是为了使企业或组织平稳运行而必须进行的活动和任务，
[00:43.39]but life admin is administration you have to do to make your day-to-day life run smoothly - like doing housework, or paying a bill. 但“life Admin(生活管理)”是为了让你的日常生活平稳进行而必须进行的管理，比如做家务或付账。
[00:51.37]And the first thing on my 'to-do' list is to ask you and the listeners, a question.	我们要做的第一件事就是问你和听众一个问题。
[00:55.70]Rob: Yes, you wouldn't want to forget that.	是的，你应该不希望忘记这一点的。
[00:57.77]Neil: So, the website Hotels.com commissioned some research about how much time young adults - that's millennials - spend doing life admin. 所以，Hotels.com网站委托了一项“关于年轻人，也就是千禧一代花在管理生活上的时间”的调查。
[01:06.77]Do you know what proportion of their free time they spend doing life admin tasks? 你知道他们（每天）有多少空闲时间花在生活管理上吗？
[01:11.91]Is it... a) a quarter of a day  b) a third of a day c) half a day?	是a) 一天的四分之 b)一天的三分 c)半天?
[01:16.46]Rob: Based on my personal experience, I would say about a quarter of a day.	根据我个人的经验，我认为应该是一天的四分之一。
[01:20.54]Neil: Well, we'll see if you're the same as other people at the end of the programme. ，我们会在节目结束时看看你和其他人花在生活管理上的时间是否一样。
[01:24.46]But as we all know, life admin is necessary but it can be a bit of a chore - a boring, ordinary task you do regularly.	嗯但我们都知道，生活管理是必要的，但也可能就是做家庭杂务――你经常做的无聊任务。
[01:31.97]Rob: Experts have studied the subject and looked at how we do it and how we can make it less boring. 专家们已经研究过这个话题，并研究了我们是如何做这件事的，以及我们如何做才能让这件事不那么无聊。
[01:37.43]One of them is Elizabeth Emens, Professor of Law at Columbia University and author of The Art of Life Admin.	专家之一是哥伦比亚大学(Columbia University)法学教授、《生活管理的艺术》(The Art of Life administration)一书的作者伊丽莎白・埃蒙斯(Elizabeth Emens)。
[01:44.45]Neil: She's been speaking to the BBC Radio 4 programme, Woman's Hour, and described what she thought life admin is...	她在BBC广播4台的节目《女性时间》中描述了她所认为的生活管理是什么...
[01:50.68]Life admin is the office work of life, it's the invisible layer of work that is the kind of thing that managers and secretaries, aka admins, do for pay in the office but that everyone does in their own lives for free.	生活管理是生活中的“办公室工作”，它是一种看不见的工作面，类似经理和秘书（即管理人员）在办公室里为工资而做的事情，但每个人在自己生活中做这件事都是没有报酬的。
[02:06.77]Rob: She calls life admin the invisible layer of work - so it's work, tasks or chores we carry out that people don't notice we're doing - or don't realise we have to do them it's extra work in our life.	她把生活管理称为“看不见的工作面”，所以生活管理是大家在做别人没有注意到工作、任务和杂物，或者没有意识到我们必须做这些事情，这些事情是我们生活中的额外工作。
[02:20.30]Neil: And we don't get paid for it - unless we're at work when it is the role of someone to do it - such as secretaries or aka admins - aka is short for 'also known as' - 我们是无偿做些事的，除非我们在职场以某个职位（比如秘书或又名管理员）去做，aka是“also known as（又称）”的缩写，
[02:31.45]so secretaries might also be known as admins - that is short for people who do administration.	所以秘书亦可以被称为行政管理员，admin是做管理（行政）工作的人员的缩写。
[02:37.32]Rob: Right, so we know life admin is boring and we don't get paid for it - and also, trying to renew your house insurance or trying to query a bill with a utility company can be frustrating and feels like a waste of time. 对，所以我们知道生活管理很无聊，且我们也没有报酬可拿，并且，续期房屋保险或向公用事业公司查询账单可能会让人沮丧，感觉像是在浪费时间。
[02:50.19]A utility company by the way, is one that supplies something such as electricity, gas, or water to the public.	顺便说一下，公共实业公司是指向公众提供电力、天然气或水等物资的公司。
[02:56.47]Neil: My problem is I never get round to doing my life admin - there are better things to do - 我的问题是我从来没有抽出时间来管理我的生活，我有更好的事情要做，
[03:01.45]so you could say I procrastinate - I delay doing things until later, probably because I don't want to do them.所以你可以说我拖延，即我把事情推迟到以后做，可能是因为我不想做。
[03:07.82]Rob: You are what Elizabeth classifies as an 'admin avoider'. 就是伊丽莎白所说的“管理回避者”。
[03:11.15]So this is where my to-do list comes in handy Neil. 你这就是我的待办事项清单派上用场的地方了，尼尔。
[03:14.35]You have a written record of tasks that can be quite satisfying to cross off as you do them. 假如你将任务书面记录下来，当你做完任务划掉这些任务的时候，你会很有成就感。
[03:19.66]But this is something Elizabeth Emens has found to work, at least for some people. 但伊丽莎白・埃蒙斯表示这仅对某些人有效。
[03:23.95]Let's hear from her again. 让我们再听听她的意见。
[03:25.86]What type of people did she find get most satisfaction from completing a to-do list?	她发现什么类型的人能从完成待办事项清单中获得最大的满足感？
[03:30.72]If you've ever made a list and put things on it you've already done, just to cross them out, then you know the kind of 'done it' pleasure that goes with that. 如果你曾经列过一个清单，并将你已经做过的事情列在上面，只是将它们划掉，那么你就能体会哪那种“已做”的乐趣。
[03:39.21]But actually I interviewed people, especially the super-doers that I interviewed, actually can find real pleasure in the actual doing of it - 但实际上我采访的群众，尤其是我所采访的超级实干家们，实际上能在完成任务的过程中找到真正的乐趣，
[03:47.49]so trying to understand how we can get to that when we have to do it - 所以试着去理解，当我们必须做某件事的时候，我们怎么才能完成它，
[03:51.22]how we can make it so that there is some meaning in it and some texture and there're ways of doing it that please us.	我们如何才能让这件事变得有意义、有条理，有很多能让我们身心愉悦的方式来做这件事。
[03:59.80]Neil: So she was describing the super-doers - these are the people who love admin and would spend an evening putting their book collection into alphabetical order!	所以她说超级实干家―― 就是那些喜欢管理、会花一整晚的时间把他们的藏书按字母顺序整理好的人。
[04:09.60]Rob: Elizabeth mentioned that we should learn from the super-doers and get some 'done it' pleasure in doing our life admin. 伊丽莎白提到我们应该向超级实干家学习，在管理生活的过程中获得一些“已完成”的乐趣。
[04:15.67]We need to find a meaning for doing it - in other words, what is represents - so we can see the benefit of completing our to-do list.	我们需要找到这件事的意义――换句话说，就是找到它所代表的意义――这样我们才能看到完成待办事项清单的好处。
[04:22.67]Neil: How we find pleasure from doing life admin is different for different people - so personally, I think I'll stick with being an 'admin avoider' - 我们从管理生活中如何找到乐趣是因人而异的，就我个人而言，卧想我会坚持做一个“管理回避者”，
[04:30.72]but that might explain why I just got charged extra for not paying my credit card bill on time!	但这也许可以解释为什么我因为没有按时支付信用卡账单而被多收了钱。
[04:36.37]Rob: Well, please don't avoid giving us the answer to the quiz question you asked us earlier.	嗯，请不要回避给我们之前你问我们的问题的答案。
[04:41.23]Neil: Yes. Earlier I asked, researchers, commissioned by Hotels.com, polled 2,000 young professionals about their lives. 是的，此前我询问了Hotels.com委托调查了2000名年轻的专业人士的生活。
[04:48.58]How much of their free time do they spend doing life admin? 他们有多少空闲时间花在管理生活上？
[04:53.44]Is it... a) quarter of a day b) a third of a day  c) half a day?	是a) 四分之一天  b) 三分之一天 c) 半天
[04:57.70]Rob: And I said a) a quarter of a day.	我选的是a) 四分之一天。
[05:00.26]Neil: Yes, they spend a quarter of their days carrying out tasks like doctor's appointments, waiting in for packages to be delivered and doing household chores. Boring!	是的，他们每天将四分之一的时间花在了诸如预约医生、等包裹、做家务等任务上。好无聊啊！
[05:09.63]Rob: Unlike this programme Neil, which is not a chore - one of the words we discussed today.	不像这个节目，尼尔，这个节目不是一个无聊的苦差，“chore”是我们今天讨论的一个词。
[05:15.22]Neil: Yes, our vocabulary today included chore - a boring, ordinary task you do regularly.	没错，我们今天的词汇包括chore，意思是你经常做的一项无聊的、普通的工作。
[05:20.74]Rob: We also mentioned admin, short for administration -  the activities and tasks you have to do make a business, organisation or just your life, run smoothly.	我们还提到了admin，这个词是是administration(管理)的缩写，是指为了让企业、组织或你的生活顺利运转而必须进行的活动和任务。
[05:30.70]Neil: We heard aka - meaning 'also known as' - so for example, Rob aka The master of 6 Minute English!	我们听到了aka，aka的意思是“也被称为”，例如Rob――即6分钟英语的大师。
[05:37.75]Rob: Thanks very much Neil.非常感谢你，尼尔。 
[05:39.10]Next we heard utility company. 接下来我们听到的是“utility company”（公用事业公司），
[05:41.25]That's a company that supplies something such as electricity, gas, or water to the public. 这是一家向公众提供电力、媒体或水等物资的公司。
[05:46.48]And we also heard how Neil likes to procrastinate - that's delay doing things until later, probably because he doesn't want to do them.	我们还听到了尼尔喜欢拖延（procrastinate）――即把事情拖到以后做，可能是因为他不想做吧。
[05:54.31]Neil: Finally, we mentioned super-doers - an informal term to describe people who get satisfaction out of doing life admin and do lots of it.	最后，我们提到了超级实干家（super-doers），这是一个非正式的术语，用来描述那些从管理生活中获得满足感，并且完成了很多事项的人。
[06:02.53]Rob: Like me.	比如我。
[06:03.37]Neil: Well, it's time to go now but there's plenty more to discover on our website at bbclearningenglish.com. Goodbye for now.  好了，到了说再见的时刻里，但在我们的网站bbclearningenglish.com上还有很多节目待你发现。再见了。
[06:10.50]Rob: Bye bye.	拜拜。

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