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

那要如何克服拖延任务的内在冲动呢？

Tracking inventory can be a repetitive task.

跟踪库存是一项重复性工作。

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

再让失望 会另找高明。

The stronger the will, the more futile the task.

这种志越是强烈，这种尝试越是徒劳。

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。

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。可以查下了吗？

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.

很少会考虑它， 日子一天天过去，好像没有尽头。所以为琐事奔波，并没有识到对待生活的态度是冷漠的。

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要任务。

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，也要一丝不苟地倾听身边的各种看法，而不是自鸣得、盲目前进。

You have to remove anything that distracts you from the task.

你必须消除任何让你分心的事情。

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

这是漫长又艰辛的过程，靠脚力与小船的协助完成。

The teacher always imposes heavy tasks on us.

老师总是给很重的功课。

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.

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

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.

不同的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的“欧洲品牌”绝非易事，需要人做出战略性的选择，在欧洲制造出适合欧洲的节目。

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

但是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。

I'm engrossed in the task, checking catalogue numbers against the items we need and the items we've ordered, eyes flicking from the order book to the computer screen and back as I make sure the entries match.

专注于工作，对照需要的物品和已经下单的物品核对类别代码，眼睛在订单簿和电脑屏幕间来回扫视确保输入的信息是对应的。