When you start the TOEFL independent writing task, you'll be asked a question.

当你开始托福独立写作任务，你会被问到一个问题。

When you start the totally integrated writing task, you will be given three minutes to read an academic passage.

当你开始综合写作任务时，你会有几分钟的时间阅读一篇学术文章。

We need to fight procrastination before we start our task or our activity.

在我们开始我们的任务或我们的活动之前，我们需要与拖延作斗争。

Or maybe you feel a strong need to be perfect and it blocks you from starting the task because you don't know how to achieve that perfection.

或者也许你非常想要做到完美，但却阻碍了你开始这项任务，因为你不知道该如何做到完美。

But according to a new study, if you think about time in smaller units – so days, for example, rather than months or years– you are likely to start a task more quickly.

但是一项新研究显示，如果你将时间分为更小的单位，例如几天，而不是几个月几年，你就能更快地开始做一项任务。

And so it seems likely that puppies really are starting the task with the communicative ability necessary to be successful rather than just quickly learning an association over the course of the task.

因此，小狗似乎真的是带着成功所必需的沟通能力开始执行任务的，而不仅仅是在执行任务过程中快速学习联想技能。