地道美语听力播客849：处理邮件

Every day I feel more and more overwhelmed by email. Once I turn on my computer and look at my inbox, I get sucked into reading and responding to emails.

每天我都被邮箱压得喘不过气来。有一次我打开电脑查看我的收件箱，我不得不赶紧阅读邮件、回复邮件。

I have a personal email account and an email account for work. With my work email, I try to take an organized approach. I scan each email looking at the sender and subject line, and delete the ones I don’t need or want. With the remaining ones, I archive some, file others for future reading, and write replies to the rest. I’ve set up templates for the routine emails, but spend a lot of time drafting personalized responses to the rest. That takes up a large part of my workday.

我有一个个人邮箱账户和工作邮箱账户。对于工作邮箱，我试图把邮箱整理的井井有条。我浏览每一封邮件的发件人和标题，删除我不需要的和不想看的邮件。对于余下的邮件，我保存一些邮件，整理另一些邮件留着以后阅读，并对其余邮件进行回复。我对一些常规邮件建立模板，但是花大把的时间编辑剩下的邮件。这几乎占据了我工作的大部分时间。

When reading my personal email, I take my time. Yes, I get the usual junk that slips through the spam filters and get newsletters I keep meaning to unsubscribe from, but people who have my personal email address are mainly friends and family.

当我阅读私人邮件时，我会计时。是的，我会将垃圾邮件过滤掉，取消订阅的新闻邮件，但是有我个人邮件地址的人主要是我的朋友和家人。

When I’m done and I look at the clock, I’m often surprised at how much time I’ve spent processing email. That’s time I could have been spending working on my Celine Dion impression.

当我做完这一切后看表时，我总是惊讶于我花在处理邮件上的时间。那段时间我本可以听赛琳·迪翁的音乐。

“Near, far, wherever you are I believe that the heart does go on...”