The moral of the story may be that the more you divide your mind, the less you home in on each particular task.
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.
As often as not, they lend a hand in getting work done and sharing good ideas.
Let's keep the big picture in perspective.
■意味を考えてみよう。答えは以下で
moral of the story home in on to say the least as often as not keep the big picture in perspective
────────────────────────────── moral of the story, その話の教訓 ────────────────────────────── Pitfalls of Multitasking (2)より
The moral of a story or event is what you learn from it about how you should or should not behave.
ex) I think the moral of the story is let the buyer beware.
────────────────────────────── home in on, …に的を絞る、…に集中する ────────────────────────────── Pitfalls of Multitasking (2)より
If you home in on one particular aspect of something, you give all your attention to it.
ex) The critics immediately homed in on the group's essential members.
────────────────────────────── to say the least, 大目に見ても、控えめに言っても ────────────────────────────── Pitfalls of Multitasking (3)より
You can use to say the least to suggest that a situation is actually much more extreme or serious than you say it is.
ex) Accommodation was basic to say the least.
────────────────────────────── as often as not, たびたび、しばしば ────────────────────────────── Pitfalls of Multitasking (4)より
If you say that something happens as often as not, or more often than not, you mean that it happens fairly frequently, and that this can be considered as typical of the kind of situation you are talking about.
ex) Yet, as often as not, they find themselves the target of persecution rather than praise.
────────────────────────────── keep the big picture in perspective, 広い観点から[視野で]考える ────────────────────────────── Pitfalls of Multitasking (4)より
If you get something in perspective or into perspective, you judge its real importance by considering it in relation to everything else. If you get something out of perspective, you fail to judge its real importance in relation to everything else.
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Pitfalls of Multitasking (6) 10/26-27 2007"
まだコメントがありません。 -