時差N小時:手邊有很多事情 Have Too Much On One's Plate

When people go out to a restaurant, some prefer abuffet-style eating place, where you can go back tothe food serving tables many times and take lots toeat or drink with no restrictions. The problem, ofcourse, is that diners in these places tend to overeat.And if you don't eat everything on your plate, youmay feel guilty about wasting food.

人們外出就餐時，有些人喜歡自助餐。在那里你可以取很多食物和飲料，然后大吃特喝，不受任何限制。這當然會出現(xiàn)一個問題，就是這些吃自助餐的人往往會吃得過飽。如果你不把盤子里的東西吃干凈，你可能會因浪費食物而感到內(nèi)疚。

Now imagine that your plate is not real, but only your mind, and that all the food on it meansall the work you have to do that consumes your time. Sometimes, we may feel like we have toomany items "on our plate" in our mind. Then we may feel a bit guilty telling friends, "Sorry, Iam so busy just now that I can't see you. I simply have too much on my plate." Of course, inthis case we mean too much to do, not too much to eat.

現(xiàn)在想象一下，你的盤子不是真實的盤子，而是你的大腦。它里面裝的當然不是食物，而是所有你必須做的工作。這些工作會占用你時間。有時我們可能會覺得我們腦海中縈繞著太多需要處理的工作，然后我們可能會有點內(nèi)疚地告訴朋友：“對不起，我不能和你見面了，因為我手頭的事太多了。”當然，在這種情況下，這個習語的意思是指你需要使勁地工作，而不是使勁地吃東西。