英语美文朗读 第506期 The Time You Have

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These are roughly 28,835 Jelly Beans. I counted out 500 of them and used those to weigh the rest. In this pile, there is one Jelly Bean for each day that the average American will live. You might have more beans in your life, or maybe less, but on average this is the time we have. Here's a single bean. It's your very first day. A special day, but kind of a rough day on everyone involved. Add 364 more and you have the first year of your life.

这是大概28835颗糖豆。我数出单独的500颗糖豆，然后用它们来衡量剩下的糖豆。在这一堆里面，每颗糖豆代表普通美国人的一天。你的糖豆可能多些，也可能少些，但是平均来看，这就是我们拥有的时间。这是一颗单独的糖豆，这就是你生命中的第一天。这是很独特的一天，但是对于所有与这天有关的人来说，这也是很艰难的一天。再数上364颗，这就是你人生中的第一年。

Now for a sense of scale, here are your first fifteen years. 5,475 days. Which brings us to the threshold of adulthood. And at that moment this is the time that we have left. And this is, on average, what we will do with all that time. We will be asleep for a total 8,477 days. If we're lucky some of the time will be sleeping next to someone we love. We will be in the process of eating, drinking, or preparing food for 1,635 days. We will be at work, hopefully doing something satisfying for the equivalent of 3,202 of those days.

为了让你更清楚地看到量的大小，这是你人生中的头15年，一共有5475天，然后你就准备成年了。在那时，这是你剩下的时间。接下来要说的，就是我们一般如何使用这些时间。我们会用8477天来睡觉。如果我们足够幸运，那么在这8477天中的一部分时间里，我们将会睡在心爱的人身旁。我们会用1635天来吃饭，喝水，或者准备食物。我们会用3202天来工作，但愿这个工作能让我们满意吧。

1,099 days will be spent commuting or travelling from one place to another, maybe a little bit more if you live in LA. On average we will watch television in one form or another for a total of 2,676 days. House hold activities, like chores and tending to our pets and shopping will take another 1,576 days. And we will care for the needs and well-being of others, our friends and family, for 564 days. We will spend 671 days bathing, grooming, and doing all other bathroom related activities.

我们会把1099天的时间花在路上，从一个地方去另一个地方，如果你住在洛杉矶的话，可能你花的时间比这还要多些。我们平均会花2676天来观看电视节目，花1576天来做家务，照料宠物，购物，花564天来照顾他人，照顾朋友和家人，花671天来梳洗打扮等。

And another 720 will go to community activities like religious and civic duties, charities, and taking classes. After we remove all those beans, this is what remains. This is the time that we have left. Time for laughing, swimming, making art, going on hikes, text messages, reading, checking Facebook, playing softball, maybe even teaching yourself how to play the guitar. So, what are you going to do with this time? How much of it do you think you've already used up?

我们会花720天参与社区活动，比如参加宗教活动，履行公民义务，参加慈善活动，参加不同课程。把刚才的那些糖豆拿开之后，这些就是剩下的，这就是我们真正剩下的时间，用来开怀大笑，游泳，创造艺术，爬山，发短信，阅读，浏览Facebook，打垒球，甚至自学弹吉他。那么，你会怎么使用这些时间呢?你已经用了其中的多少呢?

If you only had half of it, what would you do differently? What about half of that? How much time have you already spent worrying instead of doing something that you love? What if you just had one more day? What are you going to do today?

如果你拥有的时间，只有这些的一半，那你会怎么做?要是再减半呢?你已经把多少时间花在了忧虑上，而不是花在做自己热爱的事情上?如果你拥有再多一天，会怎么样?你今天会做什么?