生活英语听力文章 第171期:130方法成为超级时间管理者(11)
时间：2018-12-18 作者：英语课 分类：2013年ESL之商务英语
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44.Tell people your preferred method of communication. 让别人知道你喜欢的联系方式。
For most of us, email is our preferred method of communicating because of its numerous time-saving benefits. 很多人喜欢发邮件，因为它在节省时间上面很有优势。
Having people communicate with you via email allows you to return emails at times that are most convenient for you. 用邮件与人沟通，你就可以选择在你最方便的时候回复邮件。
Responding to emails with your computer keypad is also much faster than responding email or text on your phone keypad. 而且，回邮件或短消息时电脑键盘打字比手机打字快得多。
45.Avoid using text messaging. 尽量不要发短信。
There is a good reason that only 3% of all professionals prefer texting as their preferred method of communication. 职场中只有3%的人选择发短信沟通是有原因的。
Every text you receive is an interruption that hinders 1 productivity 2. 你每收到一条短信你的工作效率就会受到影响。
The best way to prevent people from sending you text messages is to not initiate 3 communication with them via text messaging. 防止别人给你发信息的最好的方式就是你不要开创用短信跟这个人沟通的先河。
If someone sends you a non-urgent text, respond by email. 如果别人给你发了并非紧急事务的短信，用邮件回复。
If they continue to send you non-urgent text messages, request that they send non-urgent messages via email. 如果他们持续这样，告诉他们用邮件进行非紧急事务的沟通。
46.Schedule calls through email. 如果你需要与某人通话，
If you need to speak with someone, consider sending a quick email asking for their availability to talk during a couple of windows of time when you are available. 你可以考虑给对方发邮件询问合适的时间，可以附上你的空档时间，好让对方选择。
You'll accomplish two things: you won't interrupt them, and you'll avoid playing phone tag. 这样做有两个好处：你不会打扰到对方；你们也省去了玩电话"捉迷藏"游戏。
1 hinders
阻碍，妨碍( hinder的第三人称单数 )
- a political situation that hinders economic growth 妨碍经济发展的政治局面
- This hinders an accurate measurement or estimate of distance. 这就妨碍了精确的测量或估计距离。
2 productivity
n.生产力，生产率，多产
- Farmers are introducing in novations which increase the productivity.农民们正引进提高生产力的新方法。
- The workers try to put up productivity.工人设法提高生产率。
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