Sometimes I sleep on a problem overnight and come up with a bright idea the next morning.
Neuroscientists, psychologists and management specialists advise curtailing multitasking when you're doing homework, office assignments or driving an automobile.
Yakking on a cell phone when you're in the driver's seat, even with a headset to keep your hands free, is ill-advised, to say the least.
■意味を考えてみよう。答えは以下で
merrily tax one's mind sleep on curtail ill-advised minefield to say the least yak
────────────────────────────── merrily, [皮肉的に]（大変なことに気がつかないで）楽しげに ────────────────────────────── If you say that someone merrily does something, you are critical of the fact that they do it without realizing that there are a lot of problems which they have not thought about.
ex) Both NATO and the Community knew they could not go merrily on as before.
────────────────────────────── tax one's mind, 頭を絞る ────────────────────────────── If something taxes your strength, your patience, or your resources, it uses nearly all of them, so that you have great difficulty in carrying out what you are trying to do.
ex) Overcrowding has taxed the city's ability to deal with waste.
このtaxは、「重い負担をかける、無理な要求をする、酷使する」 ですな。
────────────────────────────── sleep on, …を一晩寝て考える ────────────────────────────── If you sleep on an idea, you delay making a decision about it until the next day.
ex) Are you sure you don't want to sleep on it? You may have changed your mind by tomorrow.
────────────────────────────── curtail, 削減する、抑制する ────────────────────────────── If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it. [FORMAL]
ex) NATO plans to curtail the number of troops being sent to the region.
────────────────────────────── ill-advised, 無謀な、軽率な、浅はかな ────────────────────────────── If you describe something that someone does as ill-advised, you mean that it is not sensible or wise.
ex) They would be ill-advised to do this.
────────────────────────────── その他にも、次も押さえておきたい。[誌面の都合上省略] ★は重要表現 ────────────────────────────── minefield, 地雷原 to say the least, 大目に見ても、控えめに言っても yak, しゃべりまくる
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Pitfalls of Multitasking (3) 10/19-20 2007"
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