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Meetings, calls, kids, dogs, earrings¹, exercise and all those emails. Who doesn't feel start out for time these days. But a new study suggested that you can feel like you have more times by donating some to others. The research is in the journal Psychological Science.

There really are only 24 hours in a day, 7 or 8 of which are ideally spent sleeping. And a time commitment does take time, but researchers found that if people felt like they had done something for others, their perception was that they had gotten more done than the people who killed time, spent time on themselves or got unexpected free time, and that make them feel like they had more time overall. You don't even have to spend your all Sunday volunteering. The helping² tasks in the study took only about 5 to 15 minutes. They included things like editing students' essay or writing a note to a sick child. Time donators also felt like they could do more with their time making them even more willing to give time in the future.

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1 earrings
n.耳环( earring的名词复数 )；耳坠子
参考例句：
a pair of earrings 一对耳环 These earrings snap on with special fastener. 这付耳环是用特制的按扣扣上去的。来自《简明英汉词典》

2 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的
参考例句：
The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。 By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。