本文要點：“沒時間去想”，文章就從“是什么/為什么/怎么辦”去考慮，文章重點在講“為什么”。

開始說“沒時間去想”是什么，它是一個是那么樣的表象呢？忙！

然后就開始跟你長篇大論解釋為什么會忙，為什么沒時間去想，通過做實驗/聽專家們分析得出來了結(jié)論，三點原因：1.一想就想煩心事兒(negative thoughts)。2.人們覺得做比想重要。3.忙是當(dāng)今時代主流，這個時代追求的就是快。

到底要不要想？要！

為什么呢？原因如下：1.你不去想，就相當(dāng)于說你去suppress negative thoughts，你一抑制不要緊，身心受損。2.沒時間反思的人是沒有同理心的。3.漫想是創(chuàng)造力的源泉。4.漫想真的可以幫你解決問題哦（舉例google course和Sarah治病）。

好，我終于明白了，一定要take time to think，那怎么去think呢？哦，作者告訴你了，要跳出來（用第三人稱）去think。

總結(jié)一下吧：不爽/問題/麻煩事兒（才）是我們一生的忠實伴侶，你忙（沒時間），確實不會去想（煩）了，但與此同時，你所能真正感受到的快樂也大打折扣。

1ONE of the biggest complaints in modern society is beingoverscheduled, overcommitted and overextended（over+，過度什么）Ask people at a social gathering how they are and the stock answer is “super busy,” “crazy busy” or “insanely busy.” Nobody is just “fine” anymore.

2Whenpeople aren’t super busy at work, they?are crazy busy exercising,（be busy doing忙于做某事）entertaining or taking their kids to Chinese lessons. Or maybe they are insanely busy playing fantasy football, tracing their genealogy or churning their own butter.

3And if there is ever a still moment for?reflective thought（深思熟慮）— say, whilewaiting in line（排隊）at the grocery store or?sitting in traffic（堵車）— out comes the mobile device. So it’s worth noting a study published last month in the journal Science, which shows how far people will go to avoid introspection.

4“We had noted（賓語從句）how wedded to our devices/ we all seem to be /and that people seem to find any excuse/ they can to keep busy,”（我們可以發(fā)現(xiàn)人們是多么的粘自己的手機，而且會極盡所能想出來各種理由讓自己忙起來。Note后面跟著兩個并列的賓語從句，而第二個賓語從句要有that的出現(xiàn)來引導(dǎo)， 原來的陳述句是：we all seem to be (how wedded) to our devices） said Timothy Wilson, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia and lead author of the study. “No one had done a simple study letting people go off on their own and think.”

5?The results surprised him and have created a stir in the psychology and neuroscience communities. In 11 experiments involving more than 700 people, the majority of?participants（參與者）reported that they found it unpleasant to be alone in a room with their thoughts for just 6 to 15 minutes.

6?Moreover, in one experiment, 64 percent of men and 15 percent of women began self-administering electric shocks when left alone to think. These same people, by the way, had?previously（之前的）said they would pay money to avoid receiving the painful jolt.

7?It didn’t matter if the subjects engaged in the?contemplative（冥想）exercise at home or in the laboratory, or if they were given suggestions of what to think about, like a coming vacation; they just didn’t like being in their own heads.

8 It could be because human beings, when left alone, tend to dwell on what’s wrong in their lives.We have evolved to become problem solvers and meaning makers.What preys on our minds, when we aren’t updating our Facebook page or in spinning class, are the things we haven’t figured out（想出辦法解決）— difficult relationships, personal and professional failures, money trouble, health concerns and so on. And until there is resolution, or at least some kind of understanding or acceptance, these thoughts reverberate（回蕩）in our heads.（而且，我們（如果是）找不到解決辦法或者想不通這些鬧心的事兒的話，這些問題就會一直回蕩在我們腦海里。Reverberate = won’t disappear or fade away） Hello rumination.（苦苦思索）Hello insomnia.（失眠）

9,10段是栗子

9?“One explanation why people keep themselves so busy and would rather shock themselves is that they are trying to avoid that kind of negative stuff,” said Ethan Kross, director of the Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory at the University of Michigan. “It doesn’t feel good if you’re not?intrinsicallygood at reflecting.”

10?The comedian Louis C.K. has a riff that’s been watched nearly eight million times on YouTube in which he describes that not-good feeling. “Sometimes when things clear away and you’re not watching anything and you’re in your car and you start going, oh no, here it comes, that I’m alone, and it starts to visit on you, just this sadness,” he said. “And that’s why we text and drive. People are willing to risk taking a life and ruining their own because they don’t want to be alone for a second because it’s so hard.”

11?But you can’t solve or let go of problems if you don’t allow yourself time to think about them.It’s an?imperative（至關(guān)重要的事）/ignoredby our culture, which（which引導(dǎo)非限定性定語從句）values doing/more than thinking and believes answers/are in the palm of your hand rather/than in your own head.

12?“It’s like we’re all in this addicted family where all this busyness seems normal when it’s really harmful,” said Stephanie Brown, a psychologist in Silicon Valley and the author of “Speed: Facing Our Addiction to Fast and Faster — and Overcoming Our Fear of Slowing Down.” “There’s this widespread belief that thinking and feeling will only slow you down and get in your way, but it’s the opposite.”

13-16段，那幾點原因

13 Suppressing negative feelings only gives them more power, she said, leading to intrusive（強壓的，闖進來的）thoughts, which makes people get even busier to keep them at bay（走投無路,同cornered）.（她還說，“你刻意的去抑制負面的情緒只能讓它滋生出更大的影響，帶來更多的想法，而這些隨之而來的想法會讓你變得更忙，忙到不可開交忙到走投無路?！盨he said是插入語，leading（非謂語動詞）引導(dǎo)的一個伴隨（表目的）狀語， intrusive thoughts強加過來的思緒，which引導(dǎo)非限定性定語從句，這些強加過來的思緒會讓他們更忙，忙到走投無路。）

The constant cognitive?strain?of evading emotions?underlies（造成，導(dǎo)致）/a range of psychological troubles/such as?obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, depression and panicattacks,not to mention a range of addictions.（逃避情緒所帶來的不斷的認知性的負擔(dān)正是造成一系列心理問題的根源，譬如說，強迫癥/焦慮/抑郁以及恐懼癥，更別說一系列的癮性疾病。） It is also associated with various somatic problems like eczema, irritable bowel syndrome, asthma, inflammation, impaired immunity and headaches.

14?Studies further suggest that not giving yourself time to reflect?impairs(損失，損害）your ability to empathizewithothers. “The more in touch with my own feelings and experiences, the richer and more accurate are my guesses of what passes through another person’s mind,” said Giancarlo Dimaggio, a psychiatrist with the Center for Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy in Rome, who studies the interplay of self-reflection and empathy. “Feeling what you feel is an ability that atrophies if you don’t use it.”（沒時間反思沒有同理心）

15?Researchers have also found that an idle mind is a crucible of creativity. A number of studies have shown that people tend to come up with more novel uses for objects if they are first given an easy task that allows their minds to wander, rather than a more demanding one.

16?“Idle mental processing encourages creativity and solutions because imagining your problem when you aren’t in it is not the same as reality,” said Jonathan Smallwood, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of York, in England. “Using your imagination means you are in fact rethinking the problem in a novel way.”

17?Perhaps that’s why Google offers its employees courses called “Search Inside Yourself” and “Neural Self-Hacking,” which include instruction on mindfulness meditation, where the goal is to recognize and accept inner thoughts and feelings rather than ignore or repress them. It’s in the company’s interest because it frees up employees’ otherwise embattled brain space to intuit end users’ desires and create products to satisfy them.

18?“I have a lot of people who come in and want to learn meditation to shut out thoughts that come up in those quiet moments,” said Sarah Griesemer, a psychologist in Austin, Tex., who incorporates mindfulness meditation into her practice. “But allowing and tolerating the drifting in of thoughts is part of the process.” Her patients, mostly hard-charging professionals, report being more productive at work and more energetic and engaged parents.

19?To get rid of the emotional static, experts advise not using first-person pronouns when thinking about troubling events in your life. Instead, use third-person pronouns or your own name when thinking about yourself. “If a friend comes to you with a problem it’s easy to coach them through it, but if the problem is happening to us we have real difficulty, in part because we have all these egocentric biases making it hard to reason?rationally（理性）,” said Dr. Kross of Michigan. “The data clearly shows that you can use language to almost trick yourself into thinking your problems are happening to someone else.”

20段總結(jié)

20?Hard as they sometimes are, negative feelings are a part of everyone’s life, arguably more so if you are crazy busy. But it’s those same deep and troubling feelings, and how you deal with them,that make you the person you are. While?busyness?may?stanch（止住什么的流出）welling sadness, it may also limit your ability to be overcome with joy.負面情緒作為我們每個人生活中的一部分啊，有時候確實挺麻煩，尤其是我們超級忙的時候，更是如此。但正是這些幽深的煩人的感覺，以及我們?nèi)绾稳ヌ幚硭炀臀覀?。?dāng)忙碌止住了滿溢出的悲傷時，它也同樣限制了我們被喜悅充盈的能力。Hard引導(dǎo)的讓步狀語，盡管怎么樣，壞情緒就是一生伴隨，甩不掉的。It is A that B，這是一個句型，是A（做了）B這事兒，表強調(diào)。While可以理解為伴隨狀語。

重要詞匯：

1.Stock：repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. A STOCK ANSWER

2.Genealogy：家譜

3.Churn：攪拌

4.Reflective：深思的

5.How far：多么的….

6.Introspection: 自省

7.Wed：結(jié)婚

8.Psychology: 心理學(xué)

9.Create a stir：造成了a lot of interest or excitement.

10.Neuroscience：神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)科學(xué)

11.Participant：參與者

12.Previous：之前

13.Jolt：震驚

14.Contemplative：冥想的

15.Dwell on：to think a lot about sth

16.Prey on one’s mind：to make sb think or worry about sth all the time

17.Reverberate: 回蕩

18.Intrinsically：本質(zhì)上的

19.Reflect：思考，反射

20.Riff: 即興表演

21.Imperative：至關(guān)重要的事兒

22.Get in one’s way: 擋住某人的路

23.Suppress：抑制

24.Intrusive：入侵的

25.Be at bay：走投無路 cornered

26.Underlie：造成

27.Not to mention: 更不必說（表強調(diào)）

28.Impair：損害

29.Empathize with sb：同情某人

30.Atrophy：削減（能力）

31.Idle：漫無目的的，慵懶的

32.Novel：新穎的/原創(chuàng)的

33.Neural：神經(jīng)的/神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)的

34.Repress：抑制

35.Embattle：部署（軍隊）以作戰(zhàn)

36.Intuit：從直覺知道

37.Incorporate：包含/吸收

38.Hard-charging：very aggressive, determined, or ambitious

39.Productive：高效的

40.Get rid of sth：除去

41.In part：to some extend; partly

42.Egocentric: 以自我為中心的

43.Bias：偏見，偏愛

44.Rationally：理性地

45.Stanch：止住…流出

46.Welling: 涌出的

47.Be overcome with joy: 極度喜悅

認知詞匯

1.Spinning class：動感單車

2.Rumination：沉思

3.Insomnia：失眠

4.Cognitive：認知的

5.Obsessive-compulsive disorder：強迫癥

6.Anxiety：焦慮

7.Depression：抑郁

8.Panic attack：恐懼癥

9.Somatic: 軀體的

10.Eczema：濕疹

11.Irritable bowel syndrome：腸易激綜合癥

12.Asthma：哮喘

13.Inflammation：炎癥

14.Impaired immunity：免疫功能損傷

15.Crucible：熔爐，嚴(yán)酷的考驗

16.Mindfulness：心智覺知

17.Static：靜態(tài)的，不動的

18.Arguably：可以說，可論證的