南婁底學(xué)區(qū) 李 曼

嘗試不做低頭族

南婁底學(xué)區(qū) 李 曼

Try not to be a phubberubber

Today first I’d like to introduce a new word“phubber”——“低頭族”in Chinese.Iguesssomeofyou haveheard of this word a thousand times.Phubber comes from phubbing. "Phubbing"isa combination of"phone"and"snubbing"to describe thehabitofsnubbingsomeone in favorofamobilephone.

Are you one phubber？If your answer is yes，youmightget interested in the followingnews.

BBC（British BroadcastCorporation）recently did an interesting experiment named“a digital detox”at Tarporley High School.The students in this schoolwere asked togiveup social media tools like Facebook，Snapchat，Instagram，Twitter and video games for aweek.Luckily for the teenagers，they didn’t need tohand in theirphones.

Did the attendees finish their task and how did they feel during thenon-social-mediaweek？Here is the result.

Of the 1，000 pupilswho started the digital detox，around a quarterhave so faradmitted togivingup.And even the students who kept their words admit that though it is bad enough on school days，a weekend without socialmedia is the true challenge.Forexample，15-year-old Georgia isagirlwho isnot totally obsessed with socialmedia and has a normal life.But she stillworried what her friendswould think if she simply disappeared from socialmedia.Seeing thatshehad Snapchatmessages that she could not open had been really hard，but there has been an upside:"I've been looking at newspapers and magazines，"shesays，"and talking tomyparentsmore！"

Do you wanta try to see if you can finish this task too？I betyou can go through thatnotcomfortableweek withoutsocial media.

今天首先給大家介紹一個(gè)詞“phubber”，中文意思是“低頭族”。估計(jì)有些同學(xué)對(duì)這個(gè)詞非常熟悉?！皃hubber”來(lái)源于“phubbing”，而“phubbing”一詞則由“phone”和“snubbing”結(jié)合而成，指只顧低頭玩手機(jī)而忽略他人感受的人。

你是不是低頭族的一員？如果答案是“yes”的話，你可能對(duì)下面這則新聞感興趣。

英國(guó)廣播公司最近在Tarporley高中進(jìn)行了一項(xiàng)名為“數(shù)字排毒”的有趣實(shí)驗(yàn)：該實(shí)驗(yàn)要求這所學(xué)校的學(xué)生一個(gè)星期內(nèi)不接觸任何社交媒體和電子游戲。幸運(yùn)的是學(xué)生不必上交手機(jī)。

實(shí)驗(yàn)參與者能完成這項(xiàng)任務(wù)嗎？他們?cè)谶@個(gè)過(guò)程中有何感想？下面就是實(shí)驗(yàn)結(jié)果。

參與“數(shù)字排毒”實(shí)驗(yàn)的1000名學(xué)生中，有約四分之一選擇了放棄。即使堅(jiān)持下來(lái)的學(xué)生也承認(rèn)：相對(duì)于上學(xué)期間的難熬，周末才是真正的挑戰(zhàn)。例如，15歲女孩喬治亞自認(rèn)對(duì)社交媒體不怎么上癮，平時(shí)生活也很有規(guī)律。但是她說(shuō)：“看到Snapchat的信息而不能打開(kāi)，確實(shí)很難受。當(dāng)然，這么做也有好處，我開(kāi)始讀報(bào)、讀雜志（這在以前是不可能的），和父母交流的機(jī)會(huì)也有所增多?！?/p>

你想不想也挑戰(zhàn)一下自己？盡管過(guò)程不那么愉悅，但我相信一周沒(méi)有社交媒體的生活你一定能堅(jiān)持下來(lái)。

Notes：

snub冷落；忽略

detox排毒；戒癮

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