不足为奇的是:对于几年后才能享受到的好处,我们总是很难马上或很快就为其掏腰包。
Small wonder: it's always difficult to pay now, or soon, for benefits we won't enjoy until years in the future.
有时候一些公共官员在他们被重新选举后马上“退休”,然后很快到他们新的办公室任职,一位肯塔基的立法者对此表示担忧,一直都在引入法案以杜绝这种情况。
A Kentucky legislator, worried that public officials sometimes "retire" right after being re-elected and then promptly unretire to take up their new office, keeps introducing bills to clamp down.
处理时,如果你能很快处理邮件就马上处理它,否则就将他放入“待处理”的文件夹中。
To accomplish this, if you can answer an email in less than two minutes, do it right away. If it will take longer, move it into a “work in progress” folder.
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