Srini Pillay, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, believes this counter-intuitive link between downtime and productivity may be due to the way our brains operate.
哈佛医学院精神病学助理教授斯里尼·皮莱认为，停工期与生产力之间这种反常理的联系可能是由我们大脑的运作方式造成的。
These results seem counter-intuitive.
这些结果似乎与预料的相反。
这就是反直观性。
This is a counter-intuitive result.
这是一个不合理的结果。
The first thing to do is counter-intuitive – get rid of more stuff.
第一件事就是反向思维——摆脱掉更多的东西。
The trouble was, it seems the no branching rule seems very counter-intuitive.
麻烦在于，这无分支规定是很反直觉的。
This is completely counter-intuitive to the society we currently live in.
对于现今我们所生存的社会来说，这完全是违背直觉的。
This may sound a bit counter-intuitive but we choose how we want to be treated.
这也许听起来有点违背直觉但是我们选择想如何被别人对待。
It may be counter-intuitive, but a diet full of beans equals a beach-ready body.
也许有些出乎意料，但是富含豆类的饮食就等于能拥有健美身材。
The study’s counter-intuitive findings also strengthen calls for more clinical trials.
该研究出人意料的结果也强化了进行更多临床试验的需要。
But the idea that it might instead have shrunk people's horizons is truly counter-intuitive.
互联网反而让人们的视野变窄，这一说法确实与人的直觉相悖。
This can seem counter-intuitive when the problem is perceived as one of simple linear scalability.
当将该问题视为一个简单的线性扩展时，这似乎是有违直观的。
But still, we would have to provide the programmer with weird and counter-intuitive error messages.
但是，我们还是必须向程序员提供奇怪的和不直观的错误消息。
Calling peanut butter a diet food, with 180 to 210 calories per serving, may seem counter-intuitive.
把每一人份量含有180 - 210卡路里的花生酱称为低热食品看起来可能有点不可思议。
This finding appeared highly counter-intuitive and psychologists were soon hard at work trying to replicate it.
这个发现与直觉极其相悖，而且不久之后，心理学家在研究中几乎不可能去复制它。
I know this seems counter-intuitive, but volunteering to help others out gives you a different perspective on your life.
我知道这听起来有点违背常理，但志愿的帮助别人可以令你对你的生活有一个全新的视角。
Take breaks: This might seem counter-intuitive but working without ever taking a break or relaxing is a recipe for burning out.
注意休整：这听起来也许是背道而驰但是光努力而不休息或是放松的直接后果就是精疲力尽。
Throughout nature, only humans appear to use money so it may seem counter-intuitive that our use of money has an animal parallel.
环顾整个自然界，好像只有人类才使用货币，因此若说其他动物也有用货币乍听之下有点令人惊异。
However, structuring ourselves into networks can be counter-intuitive, and assembly of teams and sub-teams can often be a daunting task.
然而，将我们自己构造为网络是违反直觉的，将团队和子团队进行组合常常是令人畏缩的任务。
Only a fool will persist in adhering to a rule or set of directives when its application is clearly counter-intuitive and even disastrous.
只有傻瓜才会在其应用后果明显产生了反作用，甚至是灾难时还坚持死守规则或者一系列指示。
This may seem counter-intuitive, but if you don't save before you begin paying down debt, you'll struggle to cope with unexpected expenses.
或许这看起来是违反直觉的，但如果在你开始还清债务前你没有储蓄，在对付一些意料之外的花费时，你将极其困难。
Companies that are wiling to take risks and try counter-intuitive leadership tactics often gain an edge over those competitors, Useem says.
那些愿意承担风险、尝试使用反直觉领导策略的公司往往能够确立对竞争对手的优势。
To explain this counter-intuitive finding, Dr Carr looked at the energy expenditures behind running and walking on Earth and on the moon.
为了揭示这个有悖常理的发现，卡尔博士观察了在地球及月球上跑步及走路所消耗的能量。
Economists have usually explained poor people’s counter-intuitive disdain for something that might make them better off by invoking income mobility.
经济学家们经常用呼吁收入流动性使他们生活的好些来解释这些穷人的反直觉蔑视情绪.
You can work around some of them, resulting in counter-intuitive schema designs; you might handle the others with code in programming languages.
解决某些挑战可能会生成不太直观的模式设计；您也可能使用编程语言，通过代码应对其他挑战。
Afterwards women were asked how much interest they had in the man they'd been talking to. The researchers revealed two counter-intuitive results.
随后研究人员要求妇女说说她们刚刚约会的男子有多大兴趣。
It may be counter-intuitive to think that China's high-technology future depends on its countryside – but not if you believe in market principles.
中国高科技的未来取决于农村地区，这种想法可能与你的直觉不符，但如果你相信市场原则的话，想法就会不同。
On population control, he makes the good (if counter-intuitive) point that improvements in infant mortality are an important part of the solution.
在控制人口方面，他一语中的的(即便有违常理)指出，降低婴儿死亡率对控制人口很重要。
On population control, he makes the good (if counter-intuitive) point that improvements in infant mortality are an important part of the solution.
在控制人口方面，他一语中的的(即便有违常理)指出，降低婴儿死亡率对控制人口很重要。
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