Just-in-time lifestyle is a modern lifestyle in which people expend¹ only the minimum effort to complete a task and rush from one appointment to another.

 

Just-in-time lifestyle是一种现代生活方式，指人们花最少的精力完成一项任务，然后匆匆忙忙从一个约会地点赶往下一个地点。我们可称之为“赶趟儿式生活”。

 

White collar workers are living a "just-in-time lifestyle," bred by the constant pressures of new technology and increased demands to do more with less time and fewer resources, a new international survey says.

 

一项新的全球调查指出，白领们都过着这样的“赶趟儿式生活”，而这种生活是由不断的新技术压力以及越来越多需要用更少的时间和资源完成更多事情的要求压力催生出来的。

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