外刊精读16 / 纽约时报 / 对抗职业倦怠,你需要的不是“躺平”/超详细讲解
2022-11-16 00:56 作者:爱睡懒觉的Nick船长 | 我要投稿

There is better way to reclaim your time than Quiet quitting
Related words:
- reclaim 重新获得 e.g. help sb reclaim one's confidence 回收,利用 e.g. A sufficient weight of plastic could easily be reclaimed.
- quiet quitting = doing the bare minimum at work 躺平
- hustle culture of going above and beyond what a job requires 996文化
- bare n. 最低限度 the bare essentials/ necessities
- languish = lose vitality/ grow weak or fails to improve and develop successful e.g. Boys are languishing academically, while girls are prospering.
- take your foot off the gas 松松劲
- burnout n. 由工作和压力造成的倦怠 e.g. You will suffer a burnout. burnt-out adj. By the end of final exams, both teachers and students are completely burnt-out.
- slog n 艰苦努力 e.g. Mother slogged all her life for ys.
- consume 消耗 e.g. she had gone through a dark period of feeling that her whole being was consumed by work and family.
- deplete = exhaust 使精疲力竭
- cram v 临时抱佛脚
- commit sth to sth 投入(金钱,时间,人力等) e.g. A lot of money has been commited to this project. sb be committted to do something 投入献身e.g. He said the government remained committed to peace.
Vocabulary:
- essentially 本质上 e.g. Essentially, the necessity of work comes out of the neccessity to eat.
- all-time = unprecedented adj. 空前的 e.g. Interest rates hit an all-time high.
- the opposite of 对立面 e.g. The opposite of burnout is not doing nothing.
- scale something down/ back 相应缩小 the opposite: scale something up 相应增加
- doable = feasible adj. 可做的,可行的
- counterproductive adj 适得其反的
- chaotic = hectic 混乱的 e.g. I have had a pretty hectic/ chaotic day.
- juggle sth with sth 同时应付多项工作 e.g. She works full time, juggling her career with raising children.
- over the course of 在……过程中 e.g. over the course of history
- spillover n 影响,结果 spillover effect = side effect
- back burner n 次要地位 e.g. We all live very busy lives and that is probably why dating gets put on the back burner for many of us.
Nice words:
- (为什么躺平)More than two years of pandemic uncertainty, employees stress levels are at all-time highs, and people are still languishing. When you are exhausted and overwhelmed, it feels like something needs to give-for many, that seems to be the pursuit of excellence at work.
- (积极的时间管理计划的作用)Additive time management strategies make spaces for actively effortful activities like reading books in their schedules, instead of for passively effortless ones like watching soap series. They might feel that time gets more abundant. And they even reported making more progress on their professtional goals-pretty much the opposite of quiet quitting-as their increased energy and engagemnet spilled over into (扩散到) all areas of life.
- (积极的心态对待生活)There is no reason to cram things in to your schedule out of a sense of obligation, and depleting pursuits should be eschewed. We each have the same 24 hours every day. But time is also all about the stories we tell ourselves. When life is full of have-to-dos, with only brief periods of downtime in between, we can feel beaten down by responsibilities. But adding things we actually want to do, to compete with those have-to-dos, and time feels different. We feel a bit more in control of our lives. Put simply, when we put time into what we find energizing, our inner narrative changes. We no longer feel like life is a slog.
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