可可電臺，每期節目一話題，讓英語磨練耳朵的同時學到更多有益的小知識，豐富知識的同時受益于生活。

Time-management tips

時間管理技巧

Work around procrastination.

克服拖延癥。

Try Francesco Cirillo's Pomodoro Technique. Pomodoro is Italian for tomato, and the technique's name refers tothe tomato-shaped cooking timer Cirillo used to break his work into 25-minuteincrements with five-minute breaks in between. You can use the same idea with your own increments, as long as they inspire bursts of hard work.

試試弗朗西斯科·齊立羅的番茄工作法。齊立羅用番茄形狀的廚房定時器將自己的工作時間設置為每工作25分鐘休息5分鐘，這也是這套工作法名字的來源。

Break down a massive task intomanageable blocks.

將任務量大的任務分成幾個小任務。

Alabamafootball coach Nick Saban follows a similar philosophy he calls theProcess. Instead of having his players focus on winning the championship, hetrains them to focus on only what is directly in front of them.

亞拉巴馬州橄欖球教練尼克·塞班采用的就是類似方法。他不會讓運動員只想著贏得錦標賽，而是讓他們專注眼前。

【知識點講解】

Break down 失敗； 劃分（以便分析）； 損壞； 衰弱下來

例句：

The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.

警察設法制住了那個囚犯的反抗.

His early experience enabled him to break down barriers between Scottish Catholics and Protestants.

他早年的經歷使他能夠消除蘇格蘭天主教徒和新教徒之間的隔閡。

When marriages break down children are swept into the vortex of their parents' embittered emotions.

當婚姻破裂時，孩子們也被卷進父母感情日益惡化的漩渦中。

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