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breath

n. 呼吸, 气息, 瞬间

[医] 呼气, 呵气, 口气, 呼吸

"the instruction was to simply pay attention to my breath,"

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bring back

拿回来, 使回忆起来, 使恢复

"and when my mind wandered, to bring it back."

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bring it

"and when my mind wandered, to bring it back."

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check feed

"or have this urge to check our Twitter feed."

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completely

adv. 完全地, 十分地, 圆满地

"There's this idea that we should treat our rentals like a temporary space, like a waiting room for our real home. And it completely ignores the very real"

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do management

"how I do time management in the day,"

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drift off

(人)渐渐离开

"about half of us will drift off into a daydream,"

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first

adv. 首先, 第一, 优先

a. 第一的

num. 第一

n. 开始, 第一

"When I was first learning to meditate,"

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folk

n. 人们, 家人, 亲属, 民族

a. 民间的

"A bunch of folks asked me"

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going on

接近, 快到; 发生

"So what's going on here?"

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good morning

早上好

"- Good morning."

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hard work

繁重的工作; 劳苦; 苦工; 苦功

"I'd take naps every chance I got because it was really hard work."

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incorporate

a. 合并的, 组成公司的, 一体化的

vt. 吸收, 合并, 使组成公司, 体现

vi. 合并, 混合, 组成公司

"storage. You can see I was still trying to incorporate vibrant colors with this way too small painting for the wall."

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instruction

n. 指令, 教导, 命令

[计] 指令

"the instruction was to simply pay attention to my breath,"

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learn

vt. 学习;认识到;得知

"When I was first learning to meditate,"

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learning processes

"learning processes currently known in science,"

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life

n. 生活, 生命, 人生, 世事, 生物, 寿命, 一生, 生命力, 灵魂, 无期徒刑

[医] 生活, 生存, 生命, 寿命

"to make one of these a day in the life videos"

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maximize

vt. 取...最大值, 使增加(或扩大)到最大限度

[计] 最大化

"how I structure the routine to maximize productivity."

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meditate

vt. 想, 考虑, 计划

vi. 沉思, 反省

"When I was first learning to meditate,"

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move in

生活于, 迁入

"when you move in with someone, your place just becomes like a mish mash of things that they own and things that you own and none of it really goes together."

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pay attention

专心

"the instruction was to simply pay attention to my breath,"

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rental

n. 租费, 租金收入

a. 租赁的, 收取租金的

"There's this idea that we should treat our rentals like a temporary space, like a waiting room for our real home. And it completely ignores the very real"

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silent retreats

"Yet I'd sit on these silent retreats,"

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simply

adv. 简单地, 只是, 简直, 简朴地, 坦白地

"the instruction was to simply pay attention to my breath,"

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