If you can put a deadline on it, do it.

如果你能给它设定一个期限的话，那就可以去休息一下。

Greece failed to make a payment on a bailout loan, missing a deadline on Tuesday.

希腊无法赔偿救助贷款，超过了周二大限。

That is ludicrous! What about extenuating circumstances? What about you're stressed out, you're on deadline, you have a migraine?

太可笑了！那些情有可原的状况呢？你不是常说压力大或是偏头痛？

It's like, okay, I gotta stay on deadline.

就像，好吧，我必须按时完成任务。

Well, I think people the biggest issue is that they put a deadline on it.

好吧，我认为人们最大的问题是他们设定了最后期限。

I hope this won't take long. I'm on deadline.

能不能长话短说 我一会得去交稿。

It's just, I'm on deadline and I'm gonna be cutting it close as it is.

只是...到了截稿时间 我得收尾了。

Congress faces a deadline of midnight on September 30th to pass a bill to keep the federal government funded.

国会面临 9 月 30 日午夜通过一项法案以维持联邦政府资金的最后期限。

There was no way that I finished my thesis on deadline. I had to come to my prop and tell her that nothing was ready.

我不可能在规定的期限内完成论文 我不得不去找我的道具 告诉她什么都没有准备好。

And so it worked really well to just have really clear lines of communication, and I was the one point person to really make sure that everything was happening on deadline.

所以有非常清晰的沟通方式非常有效，我是那个确保所有事情都在最后期限内完成的人。

If the situation involved pressure due to a lack of time, then the only difference in my work would be the extra time I would need to put in to meet the deadline on time.

如果情况因时间不够而造成压力，那么我工作的唯一不同就是我需要投入额外的时间才能按时完成任务。

Perhaps you have a coworker who continues to be late on deadlines and late for meetings despite having a clear boundary set in the past, and this individual has made it clear that there aren't any factors affecting her time management.

也许你有一位同事， 尽管过去已经设定了明确的界限， 但她仍然继续错过最后期限并迟到会议，并且她已经明确表示没有任何因素影响她的时间管理。