英文早点丨0724 - 为什么会有拖延症？你怕是脑子里住了一只猴子吧~

拖延症是指自我调节失败，在能够预料后果有害的情况下，仍然把计划要做的事情往后推迟的一种行为。拖延是一种普遍存在的现象，一项调查显示大约75%的大学生认为自己有时拖延，50%认为自己一直拖延。严重的拖延症会对个体的身心健康带来消极影响，如出现强烈的自责情绪、负罪感，不断的自我否定、贬低，并伴有焦虑症、抑郁症等心理疾病，一旦出现这种状态，需要引起重视。

Grammar must be learned through language,and not language through grammar. ----Herder

From time to time, everybody leaves a task lingering on their to-do list for a few hours - or days, or weeks - too long. Procrastination is a normal, near-universal phenomenon - which makes it all the more important to understand why it strikes and what to do about it.

People procrastinate because of a lack of value [associated with the task]; because they expect that they’re not going to achieve the value they’re trying to achieve; because the value is too far from you in terms of time; or because you’re very impulsive as a person.

文本选自 ：TIME(时代)

作者 ：Jamie Ducharme

原文标题 ：Psychologists Explain Why You Procrastinate - And How to Stop

原文发布时间 ：29 June 2018

lingering

英 [ˈlɪŋgərɪŋ]        美 [ˈlɪŋɡərɪŋ]

• adj. 拖延的，逗留不去的

• v. 逗留( linger的现在分词 );缓慢消失;苟延残喘;持续看（或思考）