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演讲者：Yana Savitsky
演讲题目：如何通过番茄工作法高效利用时间？
中英文对照翻译
When I first told my friends that I was doing a talk on a study method that I used.
当我第一次告诉我的朋友我正在做一个关于我所使用的学习方法的演讲时。
I could see the collective look of disgust that slipped across their faces as they process what I just told them. So bear with me as I firmly believe that the Pomodoro method has the power to change your life.
我能看到他们脸上流露出的厌恶的表情，在我刚刚告诉他们的事情时候。所以请听我说，因为我坚信Pomodoro方法有能力改变你的生活。
My typical cycle of studying used to start out determined, I would come home sit down at my desk. And do a couple of worksheets. The only problem was that productiveness only lasted for an hour as I would easily get distracted.
我通常的学习习惯是一开始就下定决心，回家后我会坐在书桌旁。做几个工作表。唯一的问题是我的工作效率只持续一个小时，因为我很容易分心。
I would usually spend a couple hours of my phone and then I would snap back into determination. But find myself getting burned out once again as the minutes ticked away. I would work until I physically couldn’t anymore, I pass out utterly exhausted. When my rigorous course choice this year, I had made myself promise that I would be productive I had to, I had to succeed.
我通常会花几个小时在玩手机，然后又很快恢复决心。但随着时间的流逝，我又一次的精疲力尽。我会一直工作到身体不能再工作，然后精疲力竭地倒头就睡。当我今年选择课程时，我向自己保证，我必须要有效果，我必须要成功。
And yet I failed to do that every single day. I struggled to stay afloat, fatigued stressed and strained. And I snapped as a result. And quite truthfully I was disappointed, disappointed with myself. Then one day I came across a video. It was a video telling me how to study better and I was intrigued by one specific tip, the Pomodoro method.
但我依然没有每一天都做到。我挣扎着想透着气，感到疲惫不堪，压力很大，很紧张。结果我就崩溃了。说实话，我很失望，对自己很失望。后来有一天我看到一段视频。这是一段告诉我如何更好地学习的视频，我对一个特别的提示很感兴趣，Pomodoro方法。
So what is it exactly? Well you start out by deciding on a task and estimating the amount of time that it will take you. Take for instance this AP world chapter outline. I estimate that it will take me four hours of working give or take. When instead of thinking about the outline as four hours of work. I’m going to think about it in terms of 25 minute increments or Pomodoro’s. So this outline would in theory take me eight Pomodoro’s in the next step is to work for those 25 minutes with absolutely no distractions.
那到底是什么呢？好吧，你从决定一项任务开始，并估计它将花费你多少时间。以美联社的世界章节大纲为例。我估计我得花四个小时来工作。而不是把大纲当成四小时的工作。我会用25分钟的增量来思考这个问题，所以这个大纲理论上会用到八个Pomodoro，下一步就是在这25分钟里，绝对不能有分心的事情。
Or you have to restarting the Pomodoro. But after that hyper-focused work, you get to reward yourself with a five-minute break. We’re sure to recharge and refresh you in preparation for the next full Pomodoro. For cycles of this pattern of twenty-five-five minutes, and then you can get to take a long break fifteen to thirty minutes. For myself I typically still try to stay off my phone during these breaks. And make some coffee, take short walk or I want to feel super productive. I’ll do chores I know shocker.
或者你得重新开始一个Pomodoro。但在那份专注的工作之后，你可以休息5分钟来奖励自己。我们要保证给自己充电和提神，为下一个完整的Pomodoro做准备。这种模式的周期为25分钟，然后你可以休息15到30分钟。对于我自己来说，在这些休息时间里，我通常还是尽量不玩手机。而是喝点咖啡，散个步，不然我就想有超高的工作效率。那我会做一些家务活。
This method was actually developed in the 90s by Francisco Cirilo who named the system Pomodoro which means tomato in Italian. After this 25-minute kitchen timer that he used to track his work. And it is important to know that although he developed the system for a twenty-five five-minutes pattern.
这种方法实际上是在90年代由弗朗西斯科·西里洛发明的，他把这个系统命名为Pomodoro，意大利语中的意思是番茄。在他用这25分钟的厨房计时器来跟踪他的工作之后。重要的是要知道，他开发了一个25分钟模式的系统。
The Pomodoro is a fluid system. It’s designed to help you and help you with your work. For myself, I stick to the traditional twenty-five five-minute patter when I’m doing worksheets or studying for tests. But for longer more time-consuming assignments, like let’s say projects or essays. I choose to work for much longer increments, that take shorter breaks.
Pomodoro是一个多变的系统。它的目的是帮助你和你的工作。对我自己来说，当我在做作业或学习准备考试时，我坚持传统的25分钟-5分钟的模式。但对于更长时间更耗时的作业，比如项目或论文。我选择工作时间更长，休息时间更短。
So here I am now I’m still not the perfect student and I want to iterate that. But the Pomodoro has changed me, it changed the way I think and act about my work. When needed I could spend a full day simply working as I am just recharged had kept stimulated through the whole day. With a timer constantly ticking, I find myself working quickly in order to achieve and accomplish those goals through each 25-minute increment.
所以我现在仍然不是一个很棒的学生，我想强调一下。是Pomodoro改变了我，它改变了我对工作的思考和行动方式。当有需要的时候，我可以花一整天的时间简单地工作，因为我刚刚充电了一整天。随着计时器不断滴答作响，我发现自己在快速工作，以便通过每25分钟的增量来实现和实现这些目标。
And quite truthfully it just feels so much more rewarding and fulfilling. Being able to check things off after the other, watching your pile of work go down, knowing that you accomplished something that day instead of not to call you out but wasting two hours on Netflix. So now it’s my turn to ask you. Are you as efficient as you can be? Are you productive? Or does your time seem to just slip away? Do you complete your work? Or is it scrape together at the last minute.
所以我现在仍然不是一个很棒的学生，我想强调一下。是Pomodoro改变了我，它改变了我对工作的思考和行动方式。当有需要的时候，我可以花一整天的时间简单地工作，因为我刚刚充电了一整天。随着计时器不断滴答作响，我发现自己在快速工作，以便通过每25分钟的增量来实现和实现这些目标。
And quite truthfully it just feels so much more rewarding and fulfilling. Being able to check things off after the other, watching your pile of work go down, knowing that you accomplished something that day instead of not to call you out but wasting two hours on Netflix. So now it’s my turn to ask you. Are you as efficient as you can be? Are you productive? Or does your time seem to just slip away? Do you complete your work? Or is it scrape together at the last minute.
说实话，这让人觉得更有意义，更有成就感。能够一个接一个地查漏补缺，看着你的一堆工作一点点变少，知道你那天做了一些事情，而不是叫你出去或在Netflix上浪费了两个小时。现在轮到我问你了。你的工作有效率吗？你的工作有成效吗？或者你的时间好像就这样溜走了？你完成你的工作了吗？还是在最后一刻才抓紧完成的。
The Pomodoro is a fluid system designed to help you produce higher quality work in a shorter amount of time. But whatever a method, I encourage you to think about your time differently. Just some goals for yourself and strive to meet them. To set aside the constant distractions and focus on your tasks at hand. You never know how much time you really have until you start to use it. And it looks like my break it over. Thank you.
Pomodoro是一种多变系统，旨在帮助您在较短的时间内完成更高质量的工作。但不管什么方法，我鼓励你用不同的方式来衡量你的时间。给自己定一些目标，努力去实现。抛开不停的分心，专注于手头的工作。在你开始使用它之前，你永远不知道你有多少时间。看起来我的休息时间结束了。谢谢大家
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