碎片时间

    Time是“时间”，confetti是“彩色纸屑、糖豆”。这个短语是什么意思呢？请看对话：

    A: What’re you doing, honey?

    B: Nothing particularly.

    A: So you’re playing games on your iPad again. Why can’t you do something more healthy and productive?

    B: This is just my time confetti. We’ll have dinner soon, anyway. And playing games occasionally helps me relax.

    Note: Time confetti refers to brief scraps of leisure time scattered throughout a person’s day. Confetti, literally meaning small shiny scraps or sweets, is a vivid image people call into their minds for pleasant small things. This term is fairly new, and it seems that people began to use it no earlier than five years ago.

    记住了吗？Time confetti就是“碎片时间”。