To-do lists are a great way to keep your life organized and track goals. For instance, my to-do list for today is ‘call my accountant; buy milk; wait home for the courier to drop off shopping at 1PM; finish a book review;’ and that’s basically it. I felt pretty good about what I would accomplish — until I learned how Leonardo da Vinci went about his ‘mundane’ tasks.

待辦事項能夠起到非常棒的計劃生活、追蹤目標的作用。比如，我今天的待辦事項就是“致電會計；買牛奶；下午一點在家等快遞；完成一部讀書筆記。”大致就是這樣。完成一個事項我就會有一種很棒的成就感——但當我知道達芬奇的“日常”時就完全不這么覺得了。

Leonardo, one of the most brilliant men to have ever lived, diligently documented his inventions, experiments, and interests which included painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography — to name only a few. Buried in one of his many notebooks dated from the 1490s is a to-do list, which NPR had translated. “It is useful,” Leonardo wrote, to “constantly observe, note, and consider.”

達芬奇是世界上最最智慧的人類之一，勤奮地記錄下他的發明、實驗以及他的興趣愛好：畫畫、雕刻、建筑、科學、音樂、數學、工程學、文學、解剖學、地質學、天文學、植物學、寫作、歷史學和制圖學——這僅僅只是其中幾樣而已。他的一些筆記本可以追溯到15世紀90年代，其中包括一個待辦事項本（目前已經由美國國家公共之聲翻譯完畢）。達芬奇寫道：“這真的很實用，可以不斷遵循、記錄和思考。”

來看看達芬奇某一天的to do list吧！

[Calculate] the measurement of Milan and Suburbs

【計算】測量米蘭和郊區

[Find] a book that treats of Milan and its churches, which is to be had at the stationer’s on the way to Cordusio

【尋找】一本關于米蘭和其教堂的書籍，應該在去科爾杜西奧廣場路上的文具店里有。

[Discover] the measurement of Corte Vecchio (the courtyard in the duke’s palace).

【發現】測量科爾特韋吉奧（公爵宮殿的庭院）

[Discover] the measurement of the castello (the duke’s palace itself)

【發現】測量帝堡城（公爵宮殿）

Get the master of arithmetic to show you how to square a triangle.

掌握能夠使得三角形變成正方形的算法。

Get Messer Fazio (a professor of medicine and law in Pavia) to show you about proportion.

找梅塞爾·法奇奧（帕威亞的醫學兼法學教授）咨詢比例問題。

Get the Brera Friar (at the Benedictine Monastery to Milan) to show you De Ponderibus (a medieval text on mechanics)

找布雷拉修道士（在米蘭本篤會修道院）咨詢De Ponderibus（一種關于力學的中世紀文本）。

Ask Benedetto Potinari (A Florentine Merchant) by what means they go on ice in Flanders

問貝內德托（一位佛羅倫薩商人）——意思是他們要去佛蘭德斯溜冰。

Draw Milan

畫米蘭

Ask Maestro Antonio how mortars are positioned on bastions by day or night.

問安東尼奧大師關于白天或晚上堡壘的混凝土應該如何擺放。

[Examine] the Crossbow of Mastro Giannetto

【檢查】安東尼奧大師的石弓

Find a master of hydraulics and get him to tell you how to repair a lock, canal and mill in the Lombard manner

找一位水力學大師，問問他用倫巴族人的方法怎么修水閘、水道和壓榨機。

To-do lists are a great way to keep your life organized and track goals. For instance, my to-do list for today is ‘call my accountant; buy milk; wait home for the courier to drop off shopping at 1PM; finish a book review;’ and that’s basically it. I felt pretty good about what I would accomplish — until I learned how Leonardo da Vinci went about his ‘mundane’ tasks.

待辦事項能夠起到非常棒的計劃生活、追蹤目標的作用。比如，我今天的待辦事項就是“致電會計；買牛奶；下午一點在家等快遞；完成一部讀書筆記。”大致就是這樣。完成一個事項我就會有一種很棒的成就感——但當我知道達芬奇的“日常”時就完全不這么覺得了。

Leonardo, one of the most brilliant men to have ever lived, diligently documented his inventions, experiments, and interests which included painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography — to name only a few. Buried in one of his many notebooks dated from the 1490s is a to-do list, which NPR had translated. “It is useful,” Leonardo wrote, to “constantly observe, note, and consider.”

達芬奇是世界上最最智慧的人類之一，勤奮地記錄下他的發明、實驗以及他的興趣愛好：畫畫、雕刻、建筑、科學、音樂、數學、工程學、文學、解剖學、地質學、天文學、植物學、寫作、歷史學和制圖學——這僅僅只是其中幾樣而已。他的一些筆記本可以追溯到15世紀90年代，其中包括一個待辦事項本（目前已經由美國國家公共之聲翻譯完畢）。達芬奇寫道：“這真的很實用，可以不斷遵循、記錄和思考。”

來看看達芬奇某一天的to do list吧！

[Calculate] the measurement of Milan and Suburbs

【計算】測量米蘭和郊區

[Find] a book that treats of Milan and its churches, which is to be had at the stationer’s on the way to Cordusio

【尋找】一本關于米蘭和其教堂的書籍，應該在去科爾杜西奧廣場路上的文具店里有。

[Discover] the measurement of Corte Vecchio (the courtyard in the duke’s palace).

【發現】測量科爾特韋吉奧（公爵宮殿的庭院）

[Discover] the measurement of the castello (the duke’s palace itself)

【發現】測量帝堡城（公爵宮殿）

Get the master of arithmetic to show you how to square a triangle.

掌握能夠使得三角形變成正方形的算法。

Get Messer Fazio (a professor of medicine and law in Pavia) to show you about proportion.

找梅塞爾·法奇奧（帕威亞的醫學兼法學教授）咨詢比例問題。

Get the Brera Friar (at the Benedictine Monastery to Milan) to show you De Ponderibus (a medieval text on mechanics)

找布雷拉修道士（在米蘭本篤會修道院）咨詢De Ponderibus（一種關于力學的中世紀文本）。

Ask Benedetto Potinari (A Florentine Merchant) by what means they go on ice in Flanders

問貝內德托（一位佛羅倫薩商人）——意思是他們要去佛蘭德斯溜冰。

Draw Milan

畫米蘭

Ask Maestro Antonio how mortars are positioned on bastions by day or night.

問安東尼奧大師關于白天或晚上堡壘的混凝土應該如何擺放。

[Examine] the Crossbow of Mastro Giannetto

【檢查】安東尼奧大師的石弓

Find a master of hydraulics and get him to tell you how to repair a lock, canal and mill in the Lombard manner

找一位水力學大師，問問他用倫巴族人的方法怎么修水閘、水道和壓榨機。