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Meetings, calls, kids, dogs, errands, exercise—and all those emails! Who doesn't feel starved for time these days?
會議，電話，孩子，寵物，運動——還有所有的郵件！這些天誰不覺得時間在飛逝？
But a new study suggests that you can feel like you have more time—by donating some to others. The research is in the journal Psychological Science.
然而一項新研究發現，通過將自己的時間奉獻給別人，你就能感覺時間延長了。這項研究來自《心理科學》期刊。
There really are only 24 hours in a day—seven or eight of which are (ideally) spent sleeping. And a time commitment does take time. But researchers found that if people felt like they had done something for others, their perception was that they had gotten more done than people who killed time, spent time on themselves or got unexpected free time. And that made them feel like they had more time overall.
一天確實有24小時，理想狀態下，用于睡覺的時間7到8小時。信守時間確實花費時間。但是研究人員發現，如果人們在為他人做事，直覺讓他們覺得相比那些浪費時間、將時間花在自己身上、或是有意外閑散時光的人，自己做得事情更多。這讓他們感覺時間延長了。
You don't even have to spend your whole Sunday volunteering. The helping tasks in the study took only about 5 to 15 minutes. They included things like editing a student's essay or writing a note to a sick child.
你不必花一個下午特意去做志愿者。研究表明只需花5到15分鐘幫助別人就足夠了，能做的事情很多，包括幫學生修改作文或者幫生病的小孩寫請假條。
Time donators also felt like they could do more with their time, making them even more willing to give time in the future.
奉獻時間也會使人感覺能利用有限的時間做更多事情，鼓勵他們日后更多的分享時間。
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