What I Actually Do When I’m Not Making YouTube Videos · Ali Abdaal
博主分享自己不拍视频时的日常生活，包括照顾孩子、工作安排和参与学生问答。适合练习日常对话和生活场景表达。
Hey friends, welcome back to the vlog!
嘿，朋友们，欢迎回到我们的视频博客！
The day starts at 8am when I wake up, negotiate myself out of bed, have a shower,
这一天从早上8点开始：我醒来后费了些劲才从床上爬起来，然后去洗了个澡。
do my skincare and play with the baby girl for a bit.
先做好我的皮肤护理工作，然后陪小女儿玩一会儿。
I wave goodbye to the other baby girl and I head over to the office to start the workday.
我向另一个女婴挥手道别，然后前往办公室开始新的一天工作。
Fridays are unusual in that I start work at 9am,
周五有点特别——因为我通常是在上午9点开始工作的。
usually I start at 10pm, but on
通常我晚上10点开始工作，但今天……
Fridays from 9 to 10am I do a live session called the Friday Fireside for students of our Lifestyle Business Academy,
每周五上午9点到10点，我会为我们“生活方式商业学院”的学生们举办一场名为“Friday Fireside”的在线直播活动。
which is our online business school.
这就是我们的在线商学院。
I run a Monday Masterclass every Monday
我每周一都会举办一场“周一大师课”。
and then twice on a Friday I do the more casual Q &A's where I help our students wherever I can with their businesses.
每周五，我还会进行两次更为轻松的问答活动，在这些活动中，我会尽我所能帮助学生们解决他们在创业过程中遇到的各种问题。
Cool, great stuff guy, have a lovely rest of day, good luck with businesses and life and I will see you all next week.
太棒了！希望你今天剩下的时间过得愉快，事业和生活都能一切顺利。下周见！
Bye!
再见！
We've just done the Friday Fireside.
我们刚刚完成了“周五炉边谈话”（Friday Fireside）这个活动。
That was quite nice, there were only four people on the call and so it felt like I could really dive in in detail.
这次通话体验非常不错，参与通话的人只有四个人，因此我觉得自己可以详细地阐述自己的观点。
So these are our very casual Q
这些就是我们非常随意的问答环节（Q&A）。
&A calls that we run and they can just ask me anything and we just have a chitchat about their business,
我们组织了一些问答会议（Q&A sessions），在会议上他们可以随时向我提问，然后我们就他们的业务进行简单的交流和讨论。
give them feedback on their content or on their sales pages or on their proposals or on their offers.
向他们提供关于其内容、销售页面、提案或优惠活动的反馈意见。
And this group we had Charlene has already made $100 ,000 in the last few months,
这个团队中，Charlene在过去几个月里已经赚到了10万美元。
we've had Carlos who's just joined us and so he's trying to figure out his niche.
我们刚刚迎来了卡洛斯，他正在努力寻找适合自己的位置（或者说，正在努力找到自己在团队中的角色或职责）。
And so yeah, it's good vibes.
没错，这里充满了积极向上的氛围。
We then have a little bit of
然后我们还有那么一点时间……
chitchat with the team about this vlog format and we take a look at some of the old vlogs I used to do many,
我和团队讨论了这种视频博客（vlog）的格式，并回顾了一些我以前制作过的旧视频博客。
many years ago while I was in med school.
很多年前，当我还在医学院读书的时候……
Me, I used to save lives in different countries and now I make YouTube videos.
我以前在很多国家拯救过人们的生命，现在则制作 YouTube 视频。
I really enjoyed doing that stuff back in the day and so I'm experimenting with potentially trying to recreate that sort of format,
我真的很喜欢过去做那些事情，因此我正在尝试重新打造那种形式（或：那种活动/工作方式）。
we'll see how it goes.
我们看看事情会如何发展吧。
Sick man, why five?
病夫啊，为什么要选五个呢？
Six minute long vlog, edited by me,
这段视频日志时长为六分钟，由我本人负责剪辑。
filmed by me and so this was how I stayed consistent with content while I had a real life as a student and a doctor.
这些视频都是我亲自拍摄的。因此，尽管我在现实生活中是一名学生和一名医生，但我仍然能够坚持定期发布新的内容。
As the day progresses I sort of
随着时间的推移，我渐渐……
am constructing the vlog in my head with the footage that I've got thinking like okay where do I think a little montage would be good,
我在脑海中构思这个视频博客的内容，同时也在思考该使用哪些现有的素材。我在想：嗯，哪里插入一段短片剪辑会比较好呢？
where is a voiceover sensible and then I'll like write out the voiceover.
在哪些情况下添加旁白是合适的呢？之后我就会把这段旁白的内容写下来。
I want to experiment with this format
我想尝试这种格式。
for the business stuff because it's basically
关于业务方面的内容，因为基本上……
like to study with me things that
（表示希望和我一起学习某些内容）
instead of studying I'm like I don't
我本应该学习，但却什么都不做（或者说：我根本不想学习）。
know trying to build a landing page or like freaking I don't know whatever trying to figure out ads for super focus or whatever.
我完全不知道该如何构建一个 landing page（着陆页），也不知道该如何为某个产品（比如 Super Focus）制作广告。总之，这些事情对我来说都太复杂了，完全搞不懂。
If we can nail this as a
如果我们能把这个确定为……（具体内容需根据上下文补充）的话……
format this is a massive unlock because
这种格式的设置实际上是一个非常重要的“解锁”机制（即能够实现某些功能或提升性能的关键因素）。
it means that for example a Wednesday
这意味着，例如，在一个星期三的时候……