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That everyone’s too busy these days is a cliché. But one specific complaint is made especially mournfully： There’s never any time to read.
现在每个人都太忙是老生常谈了。 但是有一个特别的抱怨是特别悲伤的: 从来没有时间读书。
What makes the problem thornier is that the usual time-management techniques don’t seem sufficient. The web’s full of articles offering tips on making time to read: “Give up TV” or “Carry a book with you at all times” But in my experience, using such methods to free up the odd 30 minutes doesn’t work. Sit down to read and the flywheel of work-related thoughts keeps spinning—or else you’re so exhausted that a challenging book’s the last thing you need. The modern mind, Tim Parks, a novelist and critic, writes, “is overwhelmingly inclined toward communication…It is not simply that one is interrupted; it is that one is actually inclined to interruption”. Deep reading requires not just time, but a special kind of time which can’t be obtained merely by becoming more efficient.
使问题变得更棘手的是，通常的时间管理技术似乎并不充分。 网上有很多文章提供了一些关于如何抽出时间阅读的建议: “放弃电视”或“随时随身携带一本书”。但就我的经验而言，用这些方法来腾出30分钟的时间是行不通的。 坐下来阅读，与工作相关的想法就像飞轮一样旋转，否则你会筋疲力尽，最不需要的就是一本有挑战性的书。 小说家、评论家蒂姆•帕克斯(Tim Parks)写道，现代人的思维“压倒性地倾向于交流... ... 不仅仅是人被打断，而是人实际上倾向于被打断”。 深度阅读不仅需要时间，而且需要一种特殊的时间，仅仅靠提高效率是无法获得这种时间的。
In fact, “becoming more efficient” is part of the problem. Thinking of time as a resource to be maximised means you approach it instrumentally, judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal immersive reading, by contrast, depends on being willing to risk inefficiency, goallessness, even time-wasting. Try to slot it as a to-do list item and you’ll manage only goal-focused reading—useful, sometimes, but not the most fulfilling kind. “The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes)as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them”. No mind-set could be worse for losing yourself in a book.
事实上，“提高效率”是问题的一部分。 将时间视为一种需要最大化利用的资源，意味着你会从利用的角度来看待它。相比之下，判断任何特定时刻只有在它朝着某种目标——身临其境的阅读——前进的时候才是值得利用的，这取决于你愿意承担低效、无目标、甚至是浪费时间。 试着把它列入待办事项清单，你就只能进行以目标为中心的阅读——有用的，有时候，但不是最令人满意的那种。 加里•埃伯利(Gary Eberle)在他的《神圣的时间》(Sacred Time)一书中写道: “未来就像一条不可阻挡的、几乎无限的传送带上的空瓶子，向我们袭来。当这些不同大小的瓶子(日、小时、分钟)流逝时，我们感到一种压力，因为如果它们没有被装满，我们就会浪费它们。”。 沉浸在一本书中，没有比这更糟糕的思维定势了。
So what does work? Perhaps surprisingly, scheduling regular times for reading. You’d think this might fuel the efficiency mind-set, but in fact, Eberle notes, such ritualistic behaviour helps us “step outside time’s flow” into “soul time”. You could limit distractions by reading only physical books, or on single-purpose e-readers. “Carry a book with you at all times” can actually work, too—providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down. On a really good day, it no longer feels as if you’re “making time to read,” but just reading, and making time for everything else.
那么，什么是有效的呢？ 也许令人惊讶的是，定期安排阅读时间。 你可能认为这可能会提高效率，但实际上，埃伯利指出，这种仪式性的行为帮助我们“跨出时间流”进入“灵魂时间”。 你可以通过只阅读实体书籍或单一用途的电子阅读器来限制分心。 “随时随身携带一本书”实际上也可以奏效，只要你经常阅读，这样你就可以暂时摆脱阅读状态，去处理事务，然后再回到阅读状态。 在一个非常好的日子里，你不再觉得自己在“挤出时间来阅读” ，而只是在阅读，为其他事情腾出时间。
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The usual time-management techniques don’t work because
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通常的时间管理技巧不起作用，因为
[A] what they can offer does not ease the modern mind
[ a ]他们能提供的东西并不能使现代人放心
[B] what challenging books demand is repetitive reading
挑战书籍的需求是反复阅读
[C] what people often forget is carrying a book with them
C. 人们常常忘记的是随身携带一本书
[D] what deep reading requires cannot be guaranteed
深度阅读所需要的东西是不能保证的
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The “empty bottles” metaphor illustrates that people feel a pressure to
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”空瓶子”的比喻说明人们感到压力
[A] update their to-do lists [B] make passing time fulfilling
更新他们的待办事项清单[ b ]让时间变得有意义
[C] carry their plans through [D] pursue carefree reading
贯彻他们的计划，无忧无虑地读书
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Eberle would agree that scheduling regular times for reading helps
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Eberle 同意定期阅读的时间安排有帮助
[A] encourage the efficiency mind-set [B] develop online reading habits
[ a ]鼓励高效的思维方式[ b ]培养在线阅读习惯
[C] promote ritualistic reading [D] achieve immersive reading
促进仪式性阅读[ d ]实现身临其境的阅读
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“Carry a book with you at all times” can work if
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“随时随身携带一本书”如果可以的话
[A] reading becomes your primary business of the day
阅读成为你每天的主要工作
[B] all the daily business has been promptly dealt with
所有的日常事务都已及时处理好了
[C] you are able to drop back to business after reading
C. 你在读完书之后能够重新开始工作
[D] time can be evenly split for reading and business
D. 阅读和工作的时间可以平均分配
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The best title for this text could be
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本案文的最佳标题可以是
[A] How to Enjoy Easy Reading [B] How to Find Time to Read
[ a ]如何享受简单阅读[ b ]如何找时间阅读
[C] How to Set Reading Goals [D] How to Read Extensively
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