procrastinate

JAMES SUROWIECKI: The number of choices clearly does, in some cases, affect how much we procrastinate.

答：选择数量的多少，确实在某些情况下很明显地影响了我们的拖延。

Don't act. Your mind will urge you to eat that cake ( "Just a bite! " ) or smoke that cigarette or stop running or procrastinate.

你的思想会劝你吃那块蛋糕（“就咬吧，不要管其他的”）或者抽那只烟吧或者停止跑步或者拖延下来吧。

You might decide to take the rest of the day off (which encourages you to work faster rather than procrastinate).

你可以把剩下的半天休假（这会让你把工作做的更快，而不是拖拖拉拉）。

For the others, the decision to procrastinate turned out to be a financial stability disaster.

对于其它国家而言，推迟加入欧元区的决定，最终变成了一场金融稳定方面的灾难。

Trying to find the perfect productivity tool can be an excellent way to procrastinate.

试着找到完美的效能工具也是一个防止拖延的极佳方法。

We usually think of social media as a time sink. Something that takes up time and allows you to procrastinate throughout your day.

我们通常认为社交媒体会耗费大量的时间。它会花费你很多时间，使你每天的任务不断拖延。

For instance, let's say that your problem is that you procrastinate. New tappers might be tempted to say.

举个例子，假如你的问题是老爱拖延。新手可能会说。

Ex: I am messy, I procrastinate, and I am loud sometimes. I am also a loyal friend, nice to people, and funny, and that is all okay.

例如：我这是一个乱糟糟的人，拖沓，有时候说话大声。我还是一位忠诚的朋友，对人友好，幽默--这一切都可以。

One reason we procrastinate is because we are trying to do too many things at once.

我们拖延的一个原因就是我们试着一次做太多的事情。

Like the rest of us, developers will also sometimes procrastinate on tougher assignments.

有时因为任务分配的不合理，开发人员也会延迟交付。

There's something comforting about this story: even Nobel-winning economists procrastinate!

听到这种故事还颇能让人欣慰：获得诺贝尔奖的经济学家都拖延！

Most likely you'll be a lot more hesitant and uncertain in your decision making, and that will likely lead you to procrastinate.

最有可能的是，你会犹豫不决，感到自己的决策靠不住。

However, we don't consciously realize this, and what happens is we procrastinate on our goals until it compounds into a serious problem.

然而我们没有意识到这些，紧接着我们就搁浅了我们的计划，直至严重性问题的出现。

Having just 1 deadline for your work is like an invitation to procrastinate.

只有一个最后期限对你的工作来说就像是接受了拖延的请柬函。

It might seem an idle pastime but academics have come up with a mathematical equation for why people procrastinate.

这也许会被视为无聊的消遣，然而已有学者提出数学方程式解释人们的拖延症。

It's easy to procrastinate when the deadline seems infinitely far away.

当最终期限总是遥遥无期时是很容易延期的。

I occasionally procrastinate with writing, even though it is one of my favorite things to do.

偶尔我也会在写作上磨磨蹭蹭，即使它是我最喜欢做的事情之一。

People often procrastinate by telling themselves that they do not have enough time on this particular day to finish the project.

人们经常这样拖延时间，告诉自己他们没有足够的时间在某个特定的日子完成计划。

Do not procrastinate what you ought to do.

不要拖延你应该作的事。

In terms of good study habits, it is a good idea not to procrastinate.

说到良好的读书习惯，不要拖延是一个很好的方法。