I'd love to help but my schedule is too hectic. 

我很想幫你忙，但我的行程太滿了。

It has been such a hectic week. I've had a lot of work to complete.

這真是忙碌的一週，我有好多工作要完成。

It took her a few months to adapt to the hectic city life.

她花了好幾個月適應忙碌的城市生活。

情態副詞

With life getting more demanding and hectic all the time, it seems there's only one way to cope - multitasking!

隨著生活日漸艱鉅和忙碌，似乎只有一個方式可以解決——一心多用！

Gurus and life hackers make a living telling us how to get better at it.

印度教宗師和生活駭客以告訴我們該如何更好地面對生活維生。

The term was first used in the '60s, to describe computer performance.

multitask 這個詞首次在 1960 年代出現，用來形容電腦的性能。

The human brain, though, is not a computer and human attention is a very limited resource.

但是人腦並非電腦，人類的注意力是有限的。

Some psychologists model visual attention as being like a spotlight.

許多心理學家用模型展示，發現視覺注意力就像是一個聚光燈。

It can only be shone in one direction at any one time.

Our primary focus - what we're paying most attention to - is like the brightly lit area in the centre of the beam.

我們主要的焦點——最關心的事物，就像是光束中心照亮的區域。

It can also be understood as being like a zoom lens - we can choose to narrow our focus to concentrate in detail, or widen it, to be aware of more things simultaneously.

也可以理解成變焦鏡頭，我們可以選擇縮小焦點，專注在細節上，或是放寬焦點，同時注意更多事情。

But we can't be zoomed in and out at the same time.

但是我們無法同時放大和縮小。

Even though we're constantly receiving a huge amount of information from our senses, it's only possible for a small amount to make it through to conscious awareness.

儘管我們不斷的從感官中接收龐大的訊息，只有一小部份的訊息可以變成自覺意識。

Watch the next section very carefully, and pay particular attention to how many balls bounce in the circle.

仔細地看以下的畫面，特別注意圓圈中有幾顆球在跳。

But did you also notice that little dinosaur?

但你有注意到畫面中有一隻小恐龍嗎？

What about the changing shape of the circle?

This shows just how powerful focused attention is.

He spent all afternoon looking for his phone, only to find it had been right under his nose the whole time.

他整個下午都在找他的手機，但最後卻發現一直在他面前。

She was standing right under my nose but I didn't even notice she was there.

她就站在我眼前，我卻沒有注意到。

The thief escaped from the police from right under their noses.

Being able to filter out irrelevant detail is an amazingly useful tool, but it means we can miss things that are right under our noses - an effect known as inattention blindness.

可以過濾掉不相關的細節很驚人且有用，但也代表我們可能錯過眼前的事物，這個現象稱作「不注意視盲」。

You can see this very clearly in the famous Invisible Gorilla experiment.

你可以在著名的「看不見得猩猩實驗」中，清楚地看見這個例子。

She is working exclusively on the new project.

This research is exclusively focused on male between the ages of 20 and 29 years old.

這個研究只專注在 20 至 29 歲的男性身上。

The newspaper published an exclusive interview with the sole witness to the murder.

報紙發布了那樁謀殺案唯一目擊者的獨家訪談內容。

When asked to concentrate exclusively on how often basketball players in white pass the ball, most people completely miss the gorilla walking across the screen and beating his chest.

當被要求只專注在穿著白衣的籃球選手，注意他們傳球頻率時，大多數人徹底忽略穿越螢幕並搥胸的猩猩。

We just don't have the capacity to process everything at once.

我們沒有能力一次處理所有事。

This is a particular problem when we try to multitask.

這也是在我們試著一心多用時的問題。

We can switch attention from one task to another and back again.

我們可以在任務之間切換注意力。

But when attention is overloaded, we miss things, and the result is nearly always that we perform tasks less well than we would doing them one at a time.

但當注意力超載時我們會錯過事物，與一次做一件事時相比，我們一心多用的結果通常是表現得不太好。

It's only truly possible to do two things at once if they require different sets of cognitive resources.

只有當認知的來源不同時，才可能同時做兩件事。

For example, it's totally possible to read a book and listen to music at the same time.

舉例來說，邊讀書邊聽音樂是絕對可行的。

Which would suggest that driving while talking on the phone is not a problem, as long as it's a hands-free phone.

這暗示著只要使用免持手機，邊開車邊講電話也不成問題。

Research has shown that while talking on the phone, we have a tendency to create mental images, and this uses the same visual resources needed for driving.

研究顯示，在講電話時我們易於製造心理影像，而這與開車時所使用的視覺資源相同。

And if visual resources become too stretched, it's perfectly possible for a driver to look directly at a hazard but, just like with that little dinosaur, fail to see it.

但如果視覺資源延伸得太長，駕駛極有可能直接注視著危險卻不知道，跟看不到小恐龍是一樣的道理。

Not everything will make it through to conscious awareness.

不是所有事物都會成為自覺意識。

我不喜歡他，因為他是一個十足粗魯的人。

Her behavior can be downright selfish at times.

This food is downright toxic to your health.

這個食物對你的健康十分有害。

So multitasking makes us at best, inefficient, and at worst, downright dangerous.

所以一心多用說好聽點是讓我們沒有效率，往難聽點是十分危險的。

If you're feeling like you should be doing 17 things at once, remember, that's just not the way your brain is wired.

如果你覺得你一次應該做 17 件事情，記住，我們的大腦不是以這樣的方式連結。

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