In this article, the panelists were talking about time management
make time 騰出時間 --
To make certain you have some time when you are not busy in order to do something you think you should to.
1. It's important to make time to read to your children.
2. In a relationship you have to make time for each other.
3. We are glad that you make time for us today.
derail --
derail comes from train, when train is derailed, it means goes off the rail. Basically everybody has a giant train rack, that can happen with our workdays. So, what can derail in your days? Sometime meeting can derail your workdays or you get off track.
How can technology derail your workday?
To leave the track
To prevent a plan or process from succeeding.
1. The train derailed and plunged into the river.
2. It is claims of financial irregularities which could ultimately derail his campaign.
on autopilot [idiom] (automatic pilot) --
Doing something without thinking it or without making an effort.
To do something without thinking because you have done the same thing many times before.
bounce --
If something bounces or you bounce it, it moves quickly away from a surface.
scratch your head [idiom] --
To think hard about something.
It's like you confused, you trying to think about what happened and trying to figure things out.
productivity (生產率, 力) --
The rate which at worker, a company or a country produces goods, and the amount produced, compared with how much time, work and money is needed to produce them.
1. Studies show that if a working environment is pleasant, productivity increase.
2. Productivity incentive.
respondent --
A person who answer question, especially in a survey.
1. In a recent opinion poll, a majority of respondents(受訪, 調查對象) were against nuclear weapon.
2. 60% of the respondents agreed with the suggestion.
premise 假設, 假定, 前提
paradox 似非而可能正確的議論 --
A person, thing or situation that has two opposite feature and therefore seems strange.
A statement containing two opposite ideas that make it seem impossible or unlikely, although it is probably true.
cognizant --
Saying that people more aware, or understand more situation.
take a toll 造成損失 --
When something takes a toll on something else, it causes suffering, death or damage.
Ex: If you don't get enough sleep, that takes toll on your health.
How to you nurture a relationship?
You need to spend times with somebody you care.
quadrant --
First quadrants are things that are urgent, and important, the second quadrant is the things are not urgent, but important; u
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