超市排队时间长？生活妙招来帮忙！_BEC初级作文

超市排队时间长？生活妙招来帮忙！

It can be one of the most frustrating things in life – waiting in line at the supermarket.

在超市排队结账确是一件很让人懊恼崩溃的事儿。

But new research shows that a few simple 'life hacks' can make the process much quicker and pain-free than you may think.

但新调查研究表明，几个简单的生活小技巧可帮助我们加快结账排队速度，且并没有我们想象中那么复杂麻烦。

Choosing to be served by female cashiers, standing in queues that feed into several tills and spying on other shoppers' grocery shop are just some of the ways to avoid the dreaded queues.

选女收银员结账的，排有若干个收款台的队伍，“偷瞄”其他顾客所买的杂货都能让我们避免那令人抓狂的长队。

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And opting for checkouts on the left or queuing behind shoppers with a trolley could also help cut down the amount of time waiting in line.

此外，选择左手边结账口或排在推着购物车的顾客后面也能减少队伍等待时间。

The 'life hacks' have emerged after researchers found that the average Briton spends between one and six months of their life standing in line at the shops.

生活小妙招的出现源于研究人员发现英国人一生平均要花费一到六个月时间在商店排队等候。

Desmos, a US organisation that promotes maths, technology and data, has spent months analysing supermarket data and has revealed the best ways to beat the queues.