“The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes) as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them.
Gary Eberle在《Sacred Time》一书中写道：未来像空瓶子一样沿着一条无法停止且几乎无限的传送带向我们涌来，我们感受到一种压力，必须在它们经过时填满这些不同大小的瓶子（天、小时、分钟），因为如果它们未被填满而通过，我们就会浪费了它们。
You’d think this might fuel the efficiency mind-set, but in fact, Eberle notes, such ritualistic behaviour helps us “step outside time’s flow” into “soul time.
你可能会认为这会促进效率心态，但事实上，Eberle指出，这种仪式化行为帮助我们脱离时间的流动，进入“灵魂时间”。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。