In his survey of the subject, Stephen Cave, a British philosopher, argues that man's various tales of immortality can be boiled down into four basic “narratives”.

英国哲学家史蒂芬？凯夫在他对这一问题的调查中指出，关于永生的各种传说都可以归为四类“说法”。

This is not the whole state boil down into one thing, this is the whole state boil down into way too many things to put on a license plate.

这不是整个州归结为一件事，而是整个州归结为太多东西无法放在车牌上。

Now, while I don't really think all the complexities of human behavior can be boiled down into a neat little equation, I do think that this Procrastination Equation is a useful mental model for pinpointing the specific causes of our procrastination.

虽然我并不认为人类行为的所有复杂性都可以归结为一个简单的等式，但我确实认为，这个拖延等式是一个有用的心智模型，它可以精确地找出我们拖延的具体原因。