The bottoms get soggy and fall apart.

整個漢堡底部會變得濕濕的，而且還散開。

Instead, try turning your sandwich upside down.

你應該試著將漢堡顛倒著吃。

The tops are nearly twice as thick as the bottoms, and a lot more durable.

上層麵包幾乎是底層的兩倍厚，而且更為結實。

So be smart, and eat your hamburgers upside down.

所以吃得聰明點，把漢堡倒著吃吧！

Have you ever noticed that when you put a straw in a can of soda, it doesn't want to stay?

把吸管放到汽水裡時，吸管總想逃脫？

Try bending the tab of the can over the hole and slide your straw down through the tab.

試著把拉環扳過來，並把吸管穿進裡面。

No more floating straws, because now, it's held in place.

再也沒有浮起的吸管，它會待在該待的位置上。

Grab yourself a mango and try this little trick.

拿顆芒果試試這個小技巧吧！

Carefully cut off the two sides of the fruit, and hold one piece in your hand.

小心地削下芒果左右兩側，接著拿起其中一片。

You can gently cut a few lines vertically, and a few more across, until the pattern resembles a checkerboard.

輕輕地垂直劃幾刀，再橫向多畫幾刀，直到劃出棋盤格為止。

Now take it with both hands and gently push from the back.

現在你用雙手輕輕地從後面向前推。

You'll see bite sized pieces pop right up.

你就得到一口大小的果肉了！

You can use a spoon to scrape them into a bowl, or just eat them right off the peel.

可以用湯匙將刮下果肉裝到碗裡，或是直接享用。

It's fast, easy, and they won't get stuck in your teeth.

快速、簡單的小技巧，還可以防止果肉卡牙縫。

If you've got ants and you're looking for a natural form of pest control, try measuring out a cup of popcorn kernels.

如果你因螞蟻問題頭痛不已，正在找天然除蟲方法的話，試試拿杯玉米粒。

Put them in a blender on high speed for about 30 seconds, and you'll end up with a batch of fresh, homemade cornmeal.

把它們放入攪拌機內，高速攪拌約 30 秒，你就能得到新鮮、自製的玉米粉。

Just make a few piles around the ant trails and within a few days, your ant problems will, literally disappear.

只要在螞蟻行走路徑周遭放幾堆玉米粉，幾天之內螞蟻將會消失無蹤。

The next time you're at a party and someone has bags of chips laying around, impress your friends by making them into custom snack bowls.

下次在派對上，如果有人將洋芋片一包包隨便放在桌上，把它們折成自製零食碗，驚艷全場吧！

You can fold the top edge inside the bag first, then begin rolling the bottom corners, up into the base of the bag, pushing the chips up as you go.

首先把袋口邊緣向內摺，接著把底角向上捲並塞入袋底，將洋芋片推到容易拿取的高度。

You'll end up with a custom snack bowl, with chips overflowing.

訂製的零食碗就好了，裡面裝著滿滿的洋芋片。

It's the season for fruit flies, so before they take over your kitchen, slice a few pieces of banana and mix them with some of your leftover mango peels.

果蠅四處飛的季節又到了，在牠們攻佔你的廚房前，切幾片香蕉，再混些剩下的芒果皮。

Find yourself a couple of small containers, and add the fruit.

找個小容器，放入這些水果。

Now just stretch a piece of plastic wrap over the top, and use something like the tip of a chopstick to poke a small hole in the center that's just bigger than the fly.

現在只需要在容器頂端蓋上一小片保鮮膜，用像筷子尖端這種工具在保鮮膜中央戳個比果蠅略大的小洞。

Now you can set it and forget it.

放置完後你就可以暫時不管它。

Within a few minutes, the flies will be checking things out, and once one goes in, you can be sure his friends will follow.

不用幾分鐘, 果蠅就會在外面徘迴，當其中一隻進去後，牠的同伴也會跟著進去。

Within a couple of days, they'll all be having a rocking fruit party.

不用幾天，牠們就會齊聚在裡面開水果趴踢。

And now you can simply take the lid of the container and press it on, sealing them inside.

現在，你只要蓋上蓋子，把牠們關在裡頭。

Now, you are the lord of the flies.

瞬間化身果蠅王！

Summer means popsicles, and popsicles mean your kids are going to get sticky fingers.

一到夏天就會想到冰棒，而有冰棒就代表孩子們又要搞的整手黏答答了。

Grab a small paper cup, and carefully poke a hole in the bottom, about the size of a popsicle stick.

拿一個小紙杯，小心地在底部戳一個差不多與冰棒桿同大小的洞。

Now when you push a popsicle inside, you've got an instant drip catcher, and no more sticky fingers.

放入冰棒，你就有一個臨時防滴杯了。跟黏踢踢手指說再見！

By the way, this works great with cupcake liners as well!

另外，用杯子蛋糕紙模做也可以喔！

You've probably been to a BBQ where the condiments take up half the table, and the lineups for using them take forever.

你也有過烤肉時，調味料佔據大半桌子，而且要花很長時間排隊拿取的經驗吧。

Solve the problem with a muffin pan.

用「馬芬烤盤」來解決這個問題吧。

This way your condiments are easy to access and your lines will move along quickly.

這個方法能讓你容易拿取要的調味料，而且不用再排很久隊。

You'll also dramatically increase your table space, and cut down the things to clean up afterward.

也可以大大節省桌面空間，減少事後清潔工作。

When you're at the beach, reduce the chances of things getting stolen by making a covert container.

去海邊玩時，做個密閉容器來減少東西被偷的機率吧！

Just take your old shampoo bottle and twist the top so that it pops right off.

只要拿舊的洗髮精瓶，轉開頂部。

Clean it out and cut a hole in the top that's just big enough, to stash your valuable items inside.

清洗乾淨，並在頂端割開一個足夠藏貴重物品大小的洞。

Now you can snap the top back on, and your items are perfectly concealed.

然後把蓋子蓋回去，你的東西就安全了。

Anyone who sees this will just think it's a shampoo bottle, and chances are, nobody's wants to steal your shampoo.

誰看了都會認為不過是罐洗髮精而已，應該沒人想偷洗髮精吧！

When you need a drink to cool down, hot water can taste disgusting.

當你需要喝個涼的來消暑，熱水肯定難以下嚥。

Try filling your water bottles, a quarter of the way, so that when they're on their sides, the water settles just below the bottle neck.

試試裝 1/4 的水，水瓶平放時水位要低於瓶頸。

Now stick your bottles in the freezer and go on with your day.

接著放入冷凍庫，就可以繼續做你的事了。

When the water is frozen, it will make an ice block on the side the bottle, but doesn't block the opening.

當水結冰後，會在瓶子一邊形成一塊大冰塊，但不會擋住瓶口。

Now when you need to cool off just take a bottle from the freezer, fill it up with your favorite drink, and you've got an instant, icy cold beverage ready to go.

想涼快一下時，只要從冷凍庫拿出瓶子，裝滿你最喜歡的飲料，一瓶現成的冷飲就準備好囉！

Well, there are a few tricks to make your summer a little easier.

這些小技巧能讓你輕鬆度過夏日。

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如果你喜歡這一類的內容，也許你也會喜歡我其他作品。

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