It all seems harmless enough: making a quick stop for coffee on your way to the office; grabbing a bite at the salad place and perhaps running an errand at the pharmacy during your lunch hour; doing a little grocery shopping or making other necessary stops after work. Add all that up and mix it in with more discretionary retail outings, and that’s nearly six and half hours per week that the average woman spends buying stuff. (Unsurprisingly, men roll in at a lazy four hours weekly in the shopping category.) And that doesn’t even take into account the immeasurable hours we spend browsing and fondling and mulling over and justifying various buys; this is simply the time we spend making purchases at cash registers. I’ll not touch on the financial implications of this particular statistic—let’s just say it’s a miracle economic recovery is still described as sluggish.
这看上去没什么坏处：比如，在你去办公室的路上稍作停留，买杯咖啡；趁着中午用餐的时间品尝一下沙拉，或者跑到药店买药什么的；下班之后到杂货店买点东西，或者停下来做些其他事情而不马上回家。将上述所说的加起来，再将他们和更多的随意的购物参观放松和在一起，大概一周花上6.5个小时，这世间大概就是女性一周平均买东西的时间。

The Idiot Box
电视机

Nothing drains our time reserves like the television. We’ve all been guilty of turning on the TV to catch the last quarter of the game or check to see who’s still on the island and who isn’t—and next thing you know, it’s 2 a.m. That seems like an extreme scenario—or maybe not, if you consider that the average American spends three hours a day watching TV. Twenty-four hours in a day have officially become twenty-one—I thought we needed more time, not less.
没有什么能比电视机更能榨干我们的时间。我们带着罪恶感打开电视机去看最新一季的游戏，或者去看看岛上谁生存谁死亡----下一件事你知道的，便是：天啊，已经凌晨2点了！这是个相对极端的场景，或者说，也很平常了，如果你相信美国人平均一天看3小时电视。那实际上24小时的一天已被缩成21小时了---我觉得我们需要更多的时间，而不是更少。