So how do you overcome the intrinsic urge to put off so many tasks?

那我们克服拖延任务内在冲动呢？

Fail me again, and I'll find someone more adequate for the task.

再让我失望 我会另找高明。

The stronger the will, the more futile the task.

这种意志越是强烈，这种尝试越是徒劳。

How could you possibly accomplish such a task?

你们怎能完成此困难任务呢？

The researchers even emphasized that the task was tedious and boring.

研究人员甚至强调，这项任务乏味又无聊。

We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty task, hardly aware of our listless attitude towards life.

我们很少会考虑它， 日子一天天过去，好像没有尽头。所以我们为琐事奔波，并没有意识到我们对待生活态度是冷漠。

A group of engineers programme robots to perform tasks in space.

在太空里，一组工程师给机器人设计了程序让它们完成工作。

Sometimes the wire cutters weren't equal to the task of cutting the wire.

有时 钢丝钳并不仅仅用来割电线。

Environmental protection and restoration were listed as paramount tasks in the plan.

环境保护与治理在计划中被列为首任务。

So we must undertake the rigorous, painstaking, and yes, sometimes plodding task of listening carefully to the broad range of perspectives that surround us, instead of blazing forth complacently.

所以，就算有时候很辛苦，我们也一丝不苟地倾听身边各种看法，而不是自鸣得意、盲目前进。

We'll get in and clean the exhibits and that's not such a pretty mermaid task.

我们会进去清理展间，而那可不是什么漂亮人鱼任务。

It was a long, arduous task, completed on foot and using boats.

这是漫长又艰辛过程，靠脚力与小船协助完成。

Tracking inventory can be a repetitive task.

跟踪库存是一项重复性工作。

The teacher always imposes heavy tasks on us.

我们老师总是给我们很重功课。

Ha ha.Yes, very funny, very funny! Can we please just focus on the task?

哈哈。好，非常有趣，非常有趣。我们可以查下了吗？

He says the first task has been to help the most vulnerable.

他表示当务之急一直是帮助大多数穷人。

I have excluded him because, while his accomplishments may contribute to the solution of moral problems, he has not been charged with the task of approaching any but the factual aspects of those problems.

我之所以把普通科学家排除在外，是因为虽然他成就有助于解决道德问题，但是他只是触及了这些问题事实方面。

Creating a “European identity” that respects the different cultures and traditions which go to make up the connecting fabric of the Old Continent is no easy task and demands a strategic choice -- that of producing programs in Europe for Europe.

不同文化和传统把欧洲大陆编织成一体，创造出一种尊重这些文化和传统“欧洲品牌”绝非易事，需人们做出战略性选择，在欧洲制造出适合欧洲节目。

But I can feel that I am suitable for this job, for this task.

但是我能够感觉到自己适合做这件事。

Put the list away, and then set yourself the same task a week later.

把这个清单拿开，过一周再测试一次。