地道美語(yǔ)聽(tīng)力播客849：處理郵件

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.

每天我都被郵箱壓得喘不過(guò)氣來(lái)。有一次我打開(kāi)電腦查看我的收件箱，我不得不趕緊閱讀郵件、回復(fù)郵件。

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.

我有一個(gè)個(gè)人郵箱賬戶(hù)和工作郵箱賬戶(hù)。對(duì)于工作郵箱，我試圖把郵箱整理的井井有條。我瀏覽每一封郵件的發(fā)件人和標(biāo)題，刪除我不需要的和不想看的郵件。對(duì)于余下的郵件，我保存一些郵件，整理另一些郵件留著以后閱讀，并對(duì)其余郵件進(jìn)行回復(fù)。我對(duì)一些常規(guī)郵件建立模板，但是花大把的時(shí)間編輯剩下的郵件。這幾乎占據(jù)了我工作的大部分時(shí)間。

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.

當(dāng)我閱讀私人郵件時(shí)，我會(huì)計(jì)時(shí)。是的，我會(huì)將垃圾郵件過(guò)濾掉，取消訂閱的新聞郵件，但是有我個(gè)人郵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.

當(dāng)我做完這一切后看表時(shí)，我總是驚訝于我花在處理郵件上的時(shí)間。那段時(shí)間我本可以聽(tīng)賽琳·迪翁的音樂(lè)。

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