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Hello,everyone，this is Sara. Welcome to Ted Notes, made by 爱学英语ILearn English. 小伙伴儿们可以在微信公众号或者喜马拉雅搜索“爱学英语English”，订阅或者关注我的专辑哦~欢迎来到每周末更新的《Ted Notes》，首先了解一下主要内容。
现代工作环境中，经常出现一种现象，人们总是习惯性的接受一些和他们没有太大关系的会议，这会导致浪费时间和精力。那么如何解决这样的现象呢？那就是不要盲目接受，寻找到会议邀请者，仔细询问会议的目的内容，告诉他们你也想和他们一起使会议完成的更好，因为你的尊重和主动，也许他们会开始思考会议的详细安排和参会者名单。人们会因为他人的改变而随之改变。接下来，就让我们详细了解一下吧。
As we all know, there are many meeting invitations which don’tgive the agenda[1] inthe subject line and any information about why you were invited to the meeting.Yet you accept it and go. When this highly unproductive[2] session is over, you wish you had the 2hours back.
In fact, I believe that we are in the middle of a globalepidemic[3] of aterrible new illness known as MAS: Mindless Accept Syndrome[4]. The primary symptom[5] of MAS is justaccepting a meeting invitation the minute it pops up in your calendar. Meetingsare important because collaboration[6] is the key to the success of any enterprise. But in thesociety of pervasive[7]information technology, we mindlessly accept the unnecessary meetings. We aremiserable because of MAS.
Actually, the cure for MAS is right here in our hands. That’sNO MAS. First of all, the next you get a meeting invitation that doesn’t have alot of information in it at all, just click the tentative[8] button. Then ask theperson who invited you to the meeting, about the goal and content of themeeting, and tell them you’re interested in learning how you can help themachieve their goal. They might start to be thoughtful when they make meetinginvitations because of your respective attitude. People just might start tochange their behaviors because you changed yours.
[1]agenda [ə'dʒɛndə] n.议程
Please make an agenda before the conference next week.
请在下周会议前做一个会议议程。
[2]unproductive ['ʌnprə'dʌktɪv] adj.徒劳的;
productive adj.有成效的
He is confident that thenegotiation will be productive.
他对谈判很有成效非常有信心。
[3]epidemic [,ɛpɪ'dɛmɪk] n.传染病；流行病
A flu epidemic spreads quickly especially in crowds.
流感在人员聚集场所传播很快。
[4]MAS: Mindless Accept Syndrome 盲目接受综合征
mindless adj. 不需要动脑筋的；
syndrome n.综合症状
[5]symptom ['sɪmptəm]] n.症状；
The symptom of a certain organ doesn’t necessarily reflectthe disease coming from the organ itself.
某个器官的症状并不一定代表病因来自器官自身。
[6]collaboration [kə,læbə'reʃən] n.合作；
A systematic project is based on the collaboration of manycompanies.
一个系统项目都是建立在多个公司合作的基础上的。
[7]pervasive [pɚ'vesɪv] adj.普遍的；无处不在的；
The family of origin has the pervasive influence on people’s wholelife.
原生家庭对人一生的影响无处不在。
[8]tentative ['tɛntətɪv] adj.不确定的；犹豫的；
He is tentative when he makes choice about going aboard.
他在做出国的决定时很犹豫。
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