时间:2019-02-08 作者:英语课 分类:阅读空间


英语课

    人生的大石头

    什么是人生的大石头?一天,一位时间管理的专家为他的学生们做了一个现场演示,给在场的每个人留下了深刻的印象……

One day, an expert in time management was speaking to a group of students and, to drive home a point, used an illustration those students will never forget.

As he stood in front of the group of overachievers he said, “OK, time for a quiz.” He pulled out a one-gallon, wide-mouth jar and set it on the table in front of him. He also produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar. When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, “Is this jar full?”

Everyone in the class yelled, “Yes.” The time management expert replied, “Really?” He reached under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel 1. He dumped some gravel in and shook the jar, causing pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the spaces between the big rocks. He then asked the group once more, “Is this jar full?”

By this time the class was on to him. “Probably not,” one of them answered. “Good!” he replied. He reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand. He started dumping the sand in the jar and it went into all of the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel. Once more he asked the question, “Is this jar full?”

“No!” the class shouted. Once again he said, “Good.” Then he grabbed a pitcher 2 of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the brim. Then he looked at the class and asked, “What is the point of this illustration?” One eager student raised his hand and said, “The point is, no matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard you can always fit some more things in it!”

“No,” the speaker replied, “that's not the point. The truth this illustration teaches us is if you don't put the big rocks in first, you'll never get them in at all. What are the 'big rocks' in your life? Time with your loved ones, your education, your dreams, a worthy 3 cause, teaching or mentoring 4 others? Remember to put these big rocks in first or you'll never get them in at all.



n.砂跞;砂砾层;结石
  • We bought six bags of gravel for the garden path.我们购买了六袋碎石用来铺花园的小路。
  • More gravel is needed to fill the hollow in the drive.需要更多的砾石来填平车道上的坑洼。
n.(有嘴和柄的)大水罐;(棒球)投手
  • He poured the milk out of the pitcher.他从大罐中倒出牛奶。
  • Any pitcher is liable to crack during a tight game.任何投手在紧张的比赛中都可能会失常。
adj.(of)值得的,配得上的;有价值的
  • I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
  • There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。
n.mentoring是一种工作关系。mentor通常是处在比mentee更高工作职位上的有影响力的人。他/她有比‘mentee’更丰富的工作经验和知识,并用心支持mentee的职业(发展)。v.(无经验之人的)有经验可信赖的顾问( mentor的现在分词 )
  • One of the most effective instruments for coaching and mentoring is the "role rehearsal" . 辅导和教学的最有效的手段之一是“角色排练。” 来自辞典例句
  • Bell Canada called their mentoring system a buddy-buddy system. 加拿大贝尔公司称他们的训导系统是伙伴—伙伴系统。 来自互联网
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A Chorus Line
acute infantile convulsion
advance of exhaust release
Alexis Creek
all basic open-hearth furnace
asynchronous time-division multiplexing
attain the ascendance
bethan
better an open enemy than a false friend
bonaparte l.
Boodha
bound volume
brick on header for border
bun-fight
butyl caproate
caryocar nuciferums
charging port
chasting
chorus-girl
cobalt oxalate
code points
consumption of labor power
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deaerator effluent
dickweed
dilate
diporpa larva
dunkerley
equivalent annual cost
fermi statistics
G-CSF
Germanisms
gilty
Hantz
hence-from
hierolatry
hinsdalite
hydroxysodalite
ideological barriers
index strip
ixiolite
job processing flow
kangaroo jerboa
laruate
ligamentum carpi volare
micrographer
movie ratings
multilist file
multiple part form
myelinogenic
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parietooccipital artery
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propensenesse
Puerto de Lobos
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Registry edit
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Reitzenhain
reticular formation (of brain stem)
Rosette Nebula
scale-up problems of technical process
science opinion survey
search arc
servece man
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skimper
speed control servo motor
static indeterminacy
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