alkanlee 's List: 时间管理

• polyphasic schedule

• orient

  • When you orient yourself to a new situation or course of action, you learn about it and prepare to deal with it. (FORMAL)
    You will need the time to orient yourself to your new way of eating.
    = accustom
• lingering grogginess

  • When something such as an idea, feeling, or illness lingers, it continues to exist for a long time, often much longer than expected.
    The scent of her perfume lingered on in the room...
    He was ashamed. That feeling lingered, and he was never comfortable in church after that...
    He would rather be killed in a race than die a lingering death in hospital.
    
    2 VERB V adv/prep, V
    If you linger somewhere, you stay there for a longer time than is necessary, for example because you are enjoying yourself.
    Customers are welcome to linger over coffee until around midnight...
    It is a dreary little town where few would choose to linger.
• stretch

  • Something that stretches over an area or distance covers or exists in the whole of that area or distance.
    The procession stretched for several miles...
    ...an artificial reef stretching the length of the coast.
    = extend
    
    2 N-COUNT usu N of n
    A stretch of road, water, or land is a length or area of it.
    It's a very dangerous stretch of road...
    
    3 VERB V, V n, V n
    
    When you stretch, you put your arms or legs out straight and tighten your muscles.
    He yawned and stretched...
    Try stretching your legs and pulling your toes upwards...
    She arched her back and stretched herself.
• alien

  • Alien means belonging to a different country, race, or group, usually one you do not like or are frightened of. (FORMAL)
    He said they were opposed to the presence of alien forces in the region.
    = foreign
    
    2 ADJ usu ADJ n
    You use alien to describe something that seems strange and perhaps frightening, because it is not part of your normal experience.
    His work offers an insight into an alien culture.
    = unfamiliar
    
    3 ADJ v-link ADJ to n
    
    If something is alien to you or to your normal feelings or behaviour, it is not the way you would normally feel or behave. (FORMAL)
    Such an attitude is alien to most businessmen.
    = foreign, unfamiliar
• Maintaining
• discipline
• scenario

  • If you talk about a likely or possible scenario, you are talking about the way in which a situation may develop.
    ...the nightmare scenario of a divided and irrelevant Royal Family...
    
    2 N-COUNT
    The scenario of a film is a piece of writing that gives an outline of the story.
    = outline
• groggy

  • If you feel groggy, you feel weak and rather ill. (INFORMAL)
    She was feeling a bit groggy when I saw her.
• siblings

  • Your siblings are your brothers and sisters. (FORMAL)
    His siblings are mostly in their early twenties...
• dragging their covers off
• I’d go through the motions of
• raised Catholic
• fully online
• in a half-conscious zombie state

  • You can describe someone as a zombie if their face or behaviour shows no feeling, understanding, or interest in what is going on around them.
    Without sleep you will become a zombie at work.
    
    2 N-COUNT
    In horror stories and some religions, a zombie is a dead person who has been brought back to life.
• sat through the mass
• pews

  • A pew is a long wooden seat with a back, which people sit on in church.
    Claire sat in the front pew.
• a habitual
• It’s very easy to maintain
• the path of least resistance

  • 是捷径的意思吗？
• alarm
• alarm
• address the factors

  • If you address someone or address a remark to them, you say something to them. (FORMAL)
    The two foreign ministers did not address each other directly when they last met...
    He addressed his remarks to Eleanor, ignoring Maria.
    
    6 VERB V n, V pron-refl to n
    If you address a problem or task or if you address yourself to it, you try to understand it or deal with it.
    Mr King sought to address those fears when he spoke at the meeting...
    Throughout the book we have addressed ourselves to the problem of ethics.
• I’m going to share what worked best for me in gradually converting from an AM zombie to an alert early riser
• sucks

  • 3 V-PASSIVE be V-ed into n
    If you are sucked into a bad situation, you are unable to prevent yourself from becoming involved in it.
    ...the extent to which they have been sucked into the cycle of violence.
    
    4 VERB no cont, V feelings
    If someone says that something sucks, they are indicating that they think it is very bad. (INFORMAL, RUDE)
    The system sucks.
• for goodness sakes
• physiological

  • Physiology is the scientific study of how people's and animals' bodies function, and of how plants function.
    ...the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology.
• you’re doomed

  • Doom is a terrible future state or event which you cannot prevent.
    ...his warnings of impending doom.
    
    2 N-UNCOUNT
    If you have a sense or feeling of doom, you feel that things are going very badly and are likely to get even worse.
    Why are people so full of gloom and doom?...
    
    3 VERB V n to n
    If a fact or event dooms someone or something to a particular fate, it makes certain that they are going to suffer in some way.
    That argument doomed their marriage to failure.
    = condemn
• tweak

  • If you tweak something, especially part of someone's body, you hold it between your finger and thumb and twist it or pull it.
    He tweaked Guy's ear roughly...
    
    2 VERB V n
    If you tweak something such as a system or a design, you improve it by making a slight change. (INFORMAL)
    He expects the system to get even better as the engineers tweak its performance.
    
    N-COUNT
    Tweak is also a noun.
    The camera has undergone only two minor tweaks since its introduction.
• radical

  • Radical changes and differences are very important and great in degree.
    The country needs a period of calm without more surges of radical change...
    The Football League has announced its proposals for a radical reform of the way football is run in England.
    = fundamental
• implementing

  • If you implement something such as a plan, you ensure that what has been planned is done.
    The government promised to implement a new system to control financial loan institutions...
    = carry out
• accumulated
• There’s no rush. 
• enthusiastic

  • If you are enthusiastic about something, you show how much you like or enjoy it by the way that you behave and talk.
    Tom was very enthusiastic about the place...
    = excited
• oscillated

  • If an object oscillates, it moves repeatedly from one position to another and back again, or keeps getting bigger and smaller. (FORMAL)
    I checked to see if the needle indicating volume was oscillating.
    
    4. If you oscillate between two moods, attitudes, or types of behaviour, you keep changing from one to the other and back again. (FORMAL)
    The president of the Republic oscillated between a certain audacity and a prudent realism.
• I’m just not biologically suited for it
• fatigue

  • Fatigue is a feeling of extreme physical or mental tiredness.
    She continued to have severe stomach cramps, aches, fatigue, and depression...
    Clarke says his team could have lasted another 15 days before fatigue would have begun to take a toll.
    
    2 N-UNCOUNT with supp, usu n N
    You can say that people are suffering from a particular kind of fatigue when they have been doing something for a long time and feel they can no longer continue to do it.
    ...compassion fatigue caused by endless TV and celebrity appeals.
    ...the result of four months of battle fatigue.
• overwhelm
• virtually
• adaptation period
• inhuman
• mildly
• ackling the problem
• contented
• within a matter of seconds
• hold the right goal in mind
• the goal to shoot for
• real breakthrough
• distinction
• sort through those feelings
• Make success a matter of when, not if.
• intertwined
• inextricably
• deluding
• consume
• hideous
• hormone-laden
• artificial ingredients
• white flour
• junk
• will tax your endocrine system
• went vegetarian
• went fully vegan in 1997
• hangover
• fructose
• corn syrup
• syrup
• forum of   >
• messing with your physiology
• to frustrate
• crappy
• go hand in hand
• freaks
• overachievers
• genetically
• At the opposite extreme
• corollary
• digest a heavy meal
• deserves special attention
• will not be as restorative
• Social conditioning
• try steering clear of animal foods for your e
• avocados
• cantaloupe
• So regardless of what my mind has to say about it
• veggies

  • ＝vegetalbe
• disrupt
• eggie consumption
• internal resources
• strain
• aerobically
• “cardio
• invariably triggers my trendy-words-that-make-me-vomit filter. 
• get thine ass to the gym
• compensates
• It works way better than caffeine
• all day long
• without the crash
• soreness
• manipulate
• boost
• trendy
• compelled
• organic
• compelled
• Why would you cheat yourself out of something you like doing?
• critical
• bedtime
• stimulating
• reliable mental
• stay up until you’re sleepy
• caveat
• you aren’t excessively screwing with your biochemistry
• to hone in on a fairly consistent bedtime
• It’s important to have something to look forward to that makes you eager to get out of bed.

  • I think so greatly.
• exercising will leave me feeling even more energized
• meditate
• evening shutdown process
• Don’t settle for that no man’s land of
• wrecked
• budge
• Mastering your mornings will set the tone for your entire day

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