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An App to Help You to Stay Focused at Work

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An App to Help You to Stay Focused at Work
App幫你保持專注
Peter and Monica are roommates. Monica is looking at her phone.
彼得和莫妮卡是室友。莫妮卡正在看她的手機。
Peter: Are you checking Instagram again?
彼得:你又在滑IG了嗎?
check(v.)查看
Monica: Yes. Everyone is posting their old travel photos.
莫妮卡:對啊。大家都在分享他們以前旅行的照片。
travel photo旅行照片
Peter: You should put your phone down. You’ve spent too much time on your phone.
彼得:把手機放下。你花太多時間滑手機了。
put sth. down放下某物spend-spent-spent(v.)花費、spend time Ving、spend money on sth.花錢
Monica: I know. After I started to work from home, I’ve been having trouble not checking Instagram and Facebook. I can’t get any work done.
莫妮卡:我知道。自從我在家工作後,我就一直滑IG和臉書,完成不了任何工作。
have trouble doing sth.做某事有困難get sth. done把某事情完成
Peter: I got an app for you.
彼得:我來推薦你一個app。
Monica: What is it?
莫妮卡:是什麼?
Peter: The app is called “Forest.” It helps you to stay focused at work.
彼得:叫做「Forest」,可以幫助你專注於在重要的工作上。
forest(n.)森林
Monica: Do I need to plant a tree?
莫妮卡:我需要種樹嗎?
plant(v.)種植、(n.)植物、盆栽
Peter: Yes, but on your phone. The idea is that the more often you use the app, the less time you’ll spend on other distracting apps. Then, as you plant more trees, you’ll have a forest in the end.
彼得:在手機上種啦。概念就是你越常開啟app而不分心去用其他app的話,就會種越多樹。然後,一片森林就會出現啦。
the more…the less越……越……distracting(adj.)令人分心的in the end到最後
Monica: Sounds interesting and a good challenge for me as well.
莫妮卡:聽起來很有趣,對我來說也是一個很好的挑戰。
challenge(n.)挑戰

📚 重點單字片語

focused(adj.)
專心的
focus on sth.
專心於
check(v.)
查看
travel photo
旅行照片
put sth. down
放下某物
spend-spent-spent(v.)
花費、spend time Ving、spend money on sth.花錢
have trouble doing sth.
做某事有困難
get sth. done
把某事情完成
forest(n.)
森林
plant(v.)
種植、(n.)植物、盆栽
the more…the less
越……越……
distracting(adj.)
令人分心的
in the end
到最後
challenge(n.)
挑戰
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