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感觉，觉得；
认为，以为；
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1. I know it's nothing serious and I feel quite unemotional about it.
我知道那根本没什么大不了的，所以有些无动于衷。
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2. I feel it's done me good to get it off my chest.
我感觉吐吐苦水对我有好处。
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3. I've gotten my feet thoroughly soaked and feel frozen through and through.
我双脚湿透，感觉都冻到骨头里了。
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4. He doesn't feel he is cut out to be a leader.
他认为自己没有做领导的才能。
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5. I always feel at home at Ye Olde Starre Inn.
在昨日星辰客栈，我总有种宾至如归的感觉。
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feel one's age
1. 感到自己衰老
feel free (to do something)
1. ［常用作邀请、安慰］请随便
feel free to say what you like.
请畅所欲言。
feel like (doing) something
1. 想拥有；想做
I feel like celebrating.
我想庆祝一下。
feel one's oats
1. I feel like celebrating.
我想庆祝一下。
feel in (one's) bones
1. 对…的直觉
feel like【非正式用语】
1. 想做…：具有…的倾向或欲望
felt like going for a walk.
feel like (oneself)
1. 感觉自在；沉着：感到自己处于正常的身体或精神状态下
I just don't feel like myself today.
我今天觉得很不舒服
感觉;感到;觉得 If you feel a particular emotion or physical sensation, you experience it.&
【语法信息】：V adj
【语法信息】：V n
【语法信息】：V as if
【语法信息】：V like
I am feeling very depressed...
我觉得非常沮丧。
I will always feel grateful to that little guy...
我会永远感激那个小伙子。
I remember feeling sick...
我记得有恶心的感觉。
(经历或事件)给人…感觉，令人有…感觉 If you talk about how an experience or event feels, you talk about the emotions and sensations connected with it.&
【语法信息】：it V adj to-inf/that
【语法信息】：V adj
【语法信息】：it V as if
【语法信息】：it V like
【语法信息】：V like -ing/n
【搭配模式】：no cont
It feels good to have finished a piece of work...
完成一项工作后感觉很好。
The speed at which everything moved felt strange...
一切进展如此之快让人感觉不对劲。
Within five minutes of arriving back from holiday, it feels as if I've never been away...
度假回来之后没过 5 分钟，我就感觉好像从未离开过。
摸上去;有…手感 If you talk about how an object feels, you talk about the physical quality that you notice when you touch or hold it. For example, if something feels soft, you notice that it is soft when you touch it.&
【语法信息】：V adj
【语法信息】：V like n
【搭配模式】：no cont
【搭配模式】：usu with supp
The metal felt smooth and cold...
这种金属摸起来冰冷而光滑。
The ten-foot oars felt heavy and awkward...
10 英尺长的桨拿起来感觉很笨重。
When the clay feels like putty, it is ready to use.
黏土摸起来像油灰时，就可以用了。
Feel is also a noun.
He remembered the feel of her skin...
他记得触摸她的皮肤的感觉。
Linen raincoats have a crisp, papery feel.
尼龙雨衣的手感又干又脆又薄，像纸一样。
(天气)感觉像要(下雨、下雪等) If you talk about how the weather feels, you describe the weather, especially the temperature or whether or not you think it is going to rain or snow.&
【语法信息】：it V adj
【语法信息】：Also it V like/as if
【搭配模式】：no cont
It felt wintry cold that day.
那天感觉像冬天一样寒冷。
触摸 If you feel an object, you touch it deliberately with your hand, so that you learn what it is like, for example what shape it is or whether it is rough or smooth.&
【语法信息】：V n
【语法信息】：V wh
【语法信息】：V prep/adv
The doctor felt his head...
医生摸了摸他的头。
When dry, feel the surface and it will no longer be smooth...
晾干之后，表面摸上去就不再光滑了。
Feel how soft the skin is in the small of the back...
感觉一下腰背部皮肤的柔滑。
碰到;摸到 If you can feel something, you are aware of it because it is touching you.&
【语法信息】：V n
【语法信息】：V n prep/adv
【搭配模式】：no cont
Through several layers of clothes I could feel his muscles...
透过好几层衣服，我能感觉到他的肌肉。
He felt her leg against his.
他感觉到她的腿贴着自己的腿。
(身体)感觉到，觉察到，觉出 If you feel something happening, you become aware of it because of the effect it has on your body.&
【语法信息】：V n -ing
【语法信息】：V n inf
【语法信息】：V pron-refl -ed
【语法信息】：be V-ed
She felt something being pressed into her hands...
她感觉有什么东西塞到了她手里。
He felt something move beside him...
他感觉身边有什么东西在动。
She felt herself lifted from her feet...
她感觉自己被抬了起来。
不觉中感到 If you feel yourself doing something or being in a particular state, you are aware that something is happening to you which you are unable to control.&
【语法信息】：V pron-refl inf
【语法信息】：V pron-refl -ing
【语法信息】：V n inf
【语法信息】：Also V n -ing
I felt myself blush...
我不觉脸红了。
If at any point you feel yourself becoming tense, make a conscious effort to relax...
如果什么时候感到紧张，就有意识地放松。
I actually felt my heart quicken.
我感觉心跳真的加快了。
感觉到(…的存在) If you feel the presence of someone or something, you become aware of them, even though you cannot see or hear them.&
【语法信息】：V n
【语法信息】：V that
【语法信息】：V n -ing
【搭配模式】：no cont
He felt her eyes on him...
他感觉到她在看着他。
Suddenly, I felt a presence behind me...
突然，我感觉身后有什么东西。
I could feel that a man was watching me very intensely...
我能感觉到有人正紧盯着我看。
觉得;认为 If you feel that something is the case, you have a strong idea in your mind that it is the case.&
【语法信息】：V that
【语法信息】：V adj that
【语法信息】：V n to-inf
【语法信息】：V pron-refl n
【搭配模式】：no cont
I feel that not enough is being done to protect the local animal life...
我觉得对当地野生动物的保护力度不够。
I feel certain that it will all turn out well...
我觉得最后肯定会皆大欢喜。
She felt herself to be part of a large business empire...
她觉得自己成了一个庞大的商业帝国中的一分子。
认为，觉得(应该做…) If you feel that you should do something, you think that you should do it.&
【语法信息】：V that
【语法信息】：V -ed to-inf
【语法信息】：V under n
【搭配模式】：no cont
I feel I should resign...
我觉得自己应该辞职。
He felt that he had to do it...
他觉得他必须去做。
You need not feel obliged to contribute...
你不必觉得非捐款不可。
抱…看法;持…态度;作…反应 If you talk about how you feel about something, you talk about your opinion, attitude, or reaction to it.&
【语法信息】：V about n
【语法信息】：V adj/adv about n
【语法信息】：V n about n
【搭配模式】：no cont
We'd like to know what you feel about abortion...
我们想知道你对堕胎是怎么看的。
How do you feel about going back to the neighborhood?...
对回到这个街区你有何感想？
She feels guilty about spending less time lately with her two kids...
最近她和两个孩子在一起的时间少了，她为此感到愧疚。
想(做…);愿意(做…) If you feel like doing something or having something, you want to do it or have it because you are in the right mood for it and think you would enjoy it.&
【语法信息】：V like -ing/n
Neither of them felt like going back to sleep...
他俩都不想回去睡觉。
Could we take a walk? I feel like a little exercise.
我们去散散步好吗？我想活动一下。
感受，体会，承受(某种后果或影响) If you feel the effect or result of something, you experience it.&
【语法信息】：V n
The charity is still feeling the effects of revelations about its one-time president...
这家慈善机构仍受到其前主席被检举带来的影响。
The real impact will be felt in the developing world.
发展中国家将会受到真正的影响。
总体印象;感觉 The feel of something, for example a place, is the general impression that it gives you.&
【搭配模式】：with supp
【搭配模式】：V inflects
The room has a warm, cosy feel.
这个房间有一种温暖舒适的感觉。
...a book that takes on the feel of an epic.
一本史诗般的书
If you get the feel of something, for example a place or a new activity, you become familiar with it.逐渐熟悉
He wanted to get the feel of the place.
他想熟悉一下这个地方。
feel free→see:
PHRASAL VERB
摸索着寻找 If you feel for something, for example in the dark, you try to find it by moving your hand around until you touch it.&
【语法信息】：V P n
【语法信息】：V adv/prep P n
I felt for my wallet and papers in my inside pocket...
我在里兜里摸钱包和证件。
I slumped down in my usual armchair and felt around for the newspaper.
我一屁股坐在常坐的椅子上，摸索着找报纸。
PHRASAL VERB
同情;可怜;怜悯 If you feel for someone, you have sympathy for them.&
【语法信息】：V P n
She cried on the phone and was very upset and I really felt for her.
她在电话里哭了，非常难过，我很同情她。
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Blind persons can often recognize objects by feeling them.
盲人常凭触摸识别物体。
2. 摸索；探索；探寻
He felt his way across the room when the lights went out.
当灯熄灭时他摸索着走过房间。
3. 体会，体验，感受(一种感情或情况)
4. 深感；对…非常敏感
5. 意识到，感觉到，自觉，认清
6. 以为，认为，想，相信
1. 由触摸而得知[感觉到]
Cotton feels soft.
棉花摸上去很柔软。
2. 觉得, 认为
How do you feel today?
今天你感觉怎样?
1. 感觉, 手感
Don't you like the feel of this material?
难道你不喜欢这种材料的手感吗?
Let us have a feel inside the bag.
让我们在袋子里边摸一摸。
You must develop a feel for words.
你们必须养成用字的直觉。
4. 摸，触，感觉，知觉
5. 感触；(事物给人的)感受
6. 本能，天性；鉴赏力；鉴别力，本能的鉴赏力
1. 给人某种感觉，(东西)摸上去有某种感觉，摸着是，感觉着是
2. 有知觉，感知
3. 感觉，意识到
4. 同情，怜悯，体谅，共鸣，感动(常与for连用)
"he has a feel for animals" or "it's easy when you get the feel of it";
2. the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect t
"the feel of the city excited him"
"a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"
"it had the smell of treason"
，，，，，，
3. a property perceived by touch
4. manual-genital stimulation
"the girls hated it when he tried to sneak a feel"
1. undergo an
"She felt resentful"
"He felt regret"
2. come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, o
"I feel that he doesn't like me"
"I find him to be obnoxious"
"I found the movie rather entertaining"
3. perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from
"He felt the wind"
"She felt an object brushing her arm"
"He felt his flesh crawl"
"She felt the heat when she got out of the car"
4. seem with respect to a g
"My cold is gone--I feel fine today"
"She felt tired after the long hike"
5. have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's
"She felt small and insignificant"
"You make me feel naked"
"I made the students feel different about themselves"
6. undergo passive experience of:"We felt the effects of inflation";
"her fingers felt their way through the string quartet"
"she felt his contempt of her"
7. be felt or percei
"The ground feels shaky"
"The sheets feel soft"
8. grope or feel in
"He felt for his wallet"
"Feel this soft cloth!"
"The customer fingered the sweater"
10. examine (a body part)
"The nurse palpated the patient's stomach"
"The runner felt her pulse"
11. find by testing or
"He felt his way around the dark room"
12. produce
"It feels nice to be home again"
13. pass one's hands over
"He felt the girl in the movie theater"
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英语单项选择--I'm afraid I can't work it out.--Never ______.One can do anything if he keeps on doing it.A.give inB.give upC.turn backD.turn on这四个选项分别是什么意思?为什么?
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give up的意思是放弃的意思整句话就是别放弃，气馁的意思You can do anything - but not everything. | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
David Allen, one of the world's most influential thinkers on personal productivity, offers his unique advice on how to keep up the pace — without wearing yourself down.
You know the drill. It's Monday morning. You arrive at work exhausted from a weekend spent entertaining the kids, paying bills, and running errands. You flick on your PC — and 70 new emails greet you. Your phone's voice-mail light is already blinking, and before you can make it stop, another call comes in. With each ring, with each colleague who drops by your office uninvited, comes a new demand — for attention, for a reaction, for a decision, for your time. By noon, when you take 10 minutes to gulp down a sandwich at your desk, you already feel overworked, overcommitted — overwhelmed.
According to , 54, one of the world's most influential thinkers on personal productivity, this is the "silent trauma" of knowledge workers everywhere. We inhabit a world, he says, in which there are "no edges to our jobs" and "no limit to the potential information that can help us do our jobs better." What's more, in a competitive environment that's continually being reshaped by the Web, we're tempted to rebalance our work on a monthly, weekly, even hourly basis. Unchecked, warns Allen, this frantic approach is a recipe for dissatisfaction and despair — all-too-common emotions these days for far too many of us.
Allen argues that the real challenge is not managing your time but maintaining your focus: "If you get too wrapped up in all of the stuff coming at you, you lose your ability to respond appropriately and effectively. Remember, you're the one who creates speed, because you're the one who allows stuff to enter your life."
Allen has spent the past 17 years helping busy people deal with all of the "stuff" in their lives. At seminars around the world — at corporate functions and in corner offices — he has preached his gospel of personal productivity. His online newsletter, "David Allen's Productivity Principles," has more than 7,000 subscribers. His book, "Getting Things Done: Mastering the Art of Stress-Free Productivity," will be published by Viking next January. He's even cofounded a software company, Actioneer Inc., that offers a range of time-saving tools.
It's been a long, strange trip from his youth in Shreveport, Louisiana. As a teenager, Allen studied Zen Buddhism and followed the path of
and the Beat generation. In college, he focused on philosophy and intellectual history, and became fascinated by thinkers who, he says, "seemed to have something cool going on, some bigger reality. I wanted to have some of the same experiences. So I did." (This was the 1960s: Use your imagination.)
Allen journeyed to the University of California at Berkeley to enroll in a master's program in American history, but he soon dropped that plan to study karate (he earned a black belt) and to begin "a 30-year quest for God, truth, and the universe." For work, he taught karate, managed a landscaping company, and helped to start a restaurant, among other jobs. But his real passion was the pursuit of self-discovery — the personal-growth movement.
"There was a lot of flaky stuff on the edges, but at the core of the philosophy were some good ideas about how to live a life that's more in line with your values," Allen says. At the time, many HR executives were also broadening their interest in personal growth — in helping people to think and to work together more effectively. Over time, Allen discovered a bridge between his fascination with self-understanding and his desire to interact practically with the world. That bridge was time management.
Allen has never been a naturally high-productivity person. ("I'm more of a party guy," he quips.) But he tried hard to change that. As he did so, he became convinced that time management was the key to personal freedom — to greater self-discovery. He then became convinced that there was a pretty robust market for instruction in his newfound art. Finally, he became convinced that "God didn't really care whether I had money or not." More or less at that moment, he became a consultant.
In a series of interviews with Fast Company, Allen shared his ideas on increasing personal productivity in a business world that moves at warp speed.
If there's one thing that all of our readers probably agree on, it's that they have too much to do and too little time in which to do it. Why do so many of us feel that way?
There is always more to do than there is time to do it, especially in an environment of so much possibility. We all wan we all want our work to be meaningful. And in an attempt to achieve that goal, we all keep letting stuff enter our lives.
The problem, of course, is that we also want to finish what we start. Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started. That's why a lot of my work has to do with how people deal with their input — email, phone messages, reports, conversations. Everything that isn't where it should be is an open loop, an incomplete, a distraction that slows you down. Your brain says, "Hey, that doesn't belong there," and you have to deal with that impulse.
If you allow too much dross to accumulate in your "10 acres" — in other words, if you allow too many things that represent undecided, untracked, unmanaged agreements with yourself and with others to gather in your personal space — that will start to weigh on you. It will dull your effectiveness. You've got to dig into the mess and put those things to rest. Productivity is about completion.
Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year. In fact, I tell people to take inventory weekly — to sort through all of the stuff that they haven't yet acted on. If you can get a clear picture of everything that you have to do, you'll be able to say, "Oh, this is what I have to do right now" — and then take the next step in getting it done.
If people took such an inventory, what would they find?
I like to talk about the "runway level" of life — all of the current actions, all of the little things that stack up. On their runways, people typically have enough stuff to create 300 or 400 hours of work. What's driving all of those tasks are between 30 and 100 projects of various shapes and sizes — commitments that people have made that require many steps to fulfill.
Once you've taken inventory, you can start to make sense of your runway. But then comes a second challenge: finding the time to do what you need to do. What's really different today is that we live and work in what I call "weird time." In weird time, no one gets 2 hours to do anything. Instead, we get 15 minutes — and sometimes only 5 minutes — between meetings and phone calls. You actually can get a lot done in weird time, but most people's thinking just isn't set up to take advantage of it. There are lots of opportunities during the day that people waste. They feel bad because they're not as productive as they should be, but they don't know what to do about it.
What to do about it is to turn it into a game: How efficient can I be? When something lands on your radar screen that isn't where it needs to be, you must decide two things. First, what's a successful outcome? In other words, what will stop the cognitive dissonance? And second, how do I allocate resources to make sure that the outcome materializes? That doesn't mean that you need to take action right away. But it does mean that, in order to get the task off of your mind, you need to decide on a course of action. The worst thing that you can do is to let things sit.
That doesn't necessarily mean that you should always work on "the important stuff" first. You might not have the energy, the tools, or the time. Sometimes, the most appropriate thing to do with five free minutes is to water the plants. Once you know what you're doing, productivity becomes your one true competitive edge. There's an elegance to h it's not just about running faster.
That leads to a simple question that most of us find difficult to answer: How should we go about setting priorities?
When people ask me how to set priorities, I ask them a question: At what level do you want to have this conversation? Each of us operates on many different levels at all times. We each have a runway that holds all of the little things that consume our time. At 10,000 feet are the projects. At 20,000 feet, people are deciding on their roles and goals. At 30,000 feet, people are thinking ahead, asking themselves where they want to be in their careers 12 to 18 months down the road. At 40,000 feet, they're thinking 3 to 5 years out and looking at their organizational aspirations. Then, at the top — at 50,000 feet — they're asking, "What's my job on this planet?"
A Wall Street executive once complained to me about having to attend too many meetings. I drew a chart and asked, "At what level do you want to have this conversation?" I explained that at 20,000 feet, maybe you need those meetings. But if you go up a level and think about the next 12 to 18 months, maybe you can pass on some of those meetings. And at 50,000 feet, where you think about your heart and your health, you might say, "I don't need to make partner. I've made enough money. From now on, I'm going to leave at 7 PM every day. And if you don't like it, then fire me."
So a big part of setting priorities is being clear about your values?
Be careful. That's a very popular notion these days: If you focus on your values, then you'll improve the "balance" between your business and personal lives. Give me a break. Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things. You'll just discover even more stuff that's important to you.
I've been working with the most values-driven organization that I've ever come across. And it has a big burnout problem. People there are always in everyone wants to play. But how many 7 AM-to-7 PM meetings can you attend? You want to attend all of them because your values tell you that they're all important. But your spouse and your kids start saying, "We never see you."
We suffer the stress of infinite opportunity: There are so many things that we could do, and all we see are people who seem to be performing at star quality. It's very hard not to try to be like them. The problem is, if you get wrapped up in that game, you'll get eaten alive. You can do anything — but not everything. The universe is full of creative projects that are waiting to be done. So, if you really care about quality of life, if you want to relax, then don't focus on values. Just control your aspirations. That will simplify things. Learning to set boundaries is incredibly difficult for most people.
Most people make the opposite choice. They feel such a sense of responsibility to their job and to their colleagues that they become even more harried ...
Which is utterly self-defeating. Your sense of "responsibility" is a function of your response ability. I learned that in karate. Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax. The power of a karate punch comes from speed, not muscle. And a tense muscle is a slow muscle.
In other words, you can't do things faster until you learn how to slow down. How do you slow down? It's all about the dynamic of detachment. You have to back off and be quiet. Retreat from the task at hand, so that you can gain a new perspective on what you're doing. If you get too wrapped up in all of the stuff coming at you, you lose your ability to respond appropriately and effectively. If your inbox and your outbox are completely full, or if people are screaming at you, then it's difficult to back off and think about things at a different level.
Have you ever felt as though time disappeared? Say, when you're really into a good movie? Or when you're busy doing something that you love, and the morning just flies by? From my spiritual practices, I know that when you get to some levels of existence, space and time seem to vanish. When I'm at those levels, I don't even think in terms of space and time anymore. When everything really lines up for me, speed is not an issue, because I have found my own rhythm. That rhythm may seem lightning fast or deathly slow, but inside me it's all the same. It's outside time.
Look at the best martial artists. They move very slowly. The faster you type, the slower it will feel to you, because you surf with your thinking. The same thing applies to reading: The faster you read, the more time will disappear, because you'll be able to feed stuff to your brain as fast as your brain can process it. That's why speed readers have better comprehension. They've trained their eyes to recognize stuff as fast as their brain can handle it.
But it's hard to leave space and time behind when you're distracted. If there's an open loop, space and time will find it. And anything waiting for a decision is an open loop. If there's a stack of papers on your desk, you have to decide on a course of action. As long as you've let that pile into your world, it's got a hold on you. What's the very next thing that you need to do? Until you decide on that, there's a gap between where you are and where you need to be — a big black hole that will suck you in.
Keith H. Hammonds () is a Fast Company senior editor. Contact David Allen by email (), or visit him on the Web ().
Sidebar: Thank God It's Friday
At the heart of David Allen's productivity coaching is the discipline of a weekly review. "That is critical to making personal organization a vital, dynamic reality," he says. Here, adapted from Allen's Web site, is a list of steps that you should work your way through every Friday afternoon.
1. Sort your loose papers. Gather all scraps of paper — business cards, receipts, miscellaneous notes — and put them into your in-basket to process.
2. Process your notes. Review journal entries, meeting notes, and miscellaneous scribblings. Turn them into appropriate action items, projects, and so on.
3. Review previous calendar data. Look through expired daily calendar pages for remaining action items, and move those items forward.
4. Download your data. Write down any new projects, action items, "waiting-for" items, and so on.
5. Review outcome lists. One by one, evaluate the status of each project, goal, and outcome.
6. Review "next action" lists. Check off all completed actions. Look for reminders of further action steps.
7. Review "pending" and "support" files. Browse through work-in-progress materials and update lists of new actions, completions, and "waiting-for" items.
8. Review "reminders" lists. Make sure that there isn't anything that you haven't done that you need to do. Also, make sure that there aren't any checklists that you need to review.
9. Review "someday" and "maybe" lists. Look for any projects that may have become active, and transfer them to your "projects" list. Delete any dead items.
10. Review "waiting-for" lists. Record appropriate follow-up actions. Check them off as you complete them.
11. Be creative and courageous. Add to your system any new, wonderful, harebrained, thought-provoking, risk-taking ideas that have occurred to you.
Sidebar: Little Tricks
David Allen's productivity principles are rooted in big ideas — in a continuous search for personal growth and self-understanding. But they're also eminently practical. Here are some of his tips for confronting life in the fast lane.
If you travel regularly, dedicate a separate drawer in your dresser to the items that you take on most trips. Keep duplicates of things that you always take — toilet kits, power cords for your laptop, chargers for phones.
Create an "action support" file in your briefcase or on your desk. Use it for one-off paper items — airline tickets, fax confirmations, and so on — that don't warrant their own file but that you need to have at hand for certain situations.
Keep your email inbox empty. Discipline yourself to dump as many messages as you can right away, to address immediately any action that will take less than two minutes, and to group actions that will take more than two minutes into an "Action" folder.
If you travel with extra batteries for your laptop or cell-phone, put a rubber band around all charged batteries. That way, you'll always know which batteries are live and which are dead.
Increase your ease at the keyboard. If you don't type at least 50 words per minute, install a typing program (such as "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing"), and then practice. Also, learn the seven most common speed-key combinations for navigating Windows.