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When people go out to a restaurant, some prefer a buffet-style eating place, where you can go back to the food serving tables many times and take lots to eat or drink with no restrictions. The problem, of course, is that diners in these places tend to overeat. And if you don't eat everything on your plate, you may feel guilty about wasting food.
人們外出就餐時(shí)，有些人喜歡自助餐。在那里你可以取很多食物和飲料，然后大吃特喝，不受任何限制。這當(dāng)然會(huì)出現(xiàn)一個(gè)問(wèn)題，就是這些吃自助餐的人往往會(huì)吃得過(guò)飽。如果你不把盤子里的東西吃干凈，你可能會(huì)因浪費(fèi)食物而感到內(nèi)疚。
Now imagine that your plate is not real, but only your mind, and that all the food on it means all the work you have to do that consumes your time. Sometimes, we may feel like we have too many items "on our plate" in our mind. Then we may feel a bit guilty telling friends, "Sorry, I am so busy just now that I can't see you. I simply have too much on my plate." Of course, in this case we mean too much to do, not too much to eat.
現(xiàn)在想象一下，你的盤子不是真實(shí)的盤子，而是你的大腦。它里面裝的當(dāng)然不是食物，而是所有你必須做的工作。這些工作會(huì)占用你時(shí)間。有時(shí)我們可能會(huì)覺(jué)得我們腦海中縈繞著太多需要處理的工作，然后我們可能會(huì)有點(diǎn)內(nèi)疚地告訴朋友：“對(duì)不起，我不能和你見(jiàn)面了，因?yàn)槲沂诸^的事太多了?！碑?dāng)然，在這種情況下，這個(gè)習(xí)語(yǔ)的意思是指你需要使勁地工作，而不是使勁地吃東西。
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