“无手机焦虑症”英语怎么说
摘要:我们中大约有66%的人,时时刻刻都离不开手机——只要眼睛睁着,就得和手机形影不离。你知道怎么用英语表达吗?
For about 66 per cent of us, being with your phone at all times is an obsession that occupies every waking minute.
If you think you may suffer from nomophobia - or 'no mobile phone phobia' – then the warning signs are:
■ An inability to ever turn your phone off;
■ Obsessively checking for missed calls, emails and texts;
■ Constantly topping up your battery life;
■ Being unable to pop to the bathroom without taking your phone in with you.
The number of people afflicted with nomophobia — revealed in a recent study — shows a rise from a similar study four years ago, where 53 per cent of people admitted the fear of losing their phone.
我们中大约有66%的人,时时刻刻都离不开手机——只要眼睛睁着,就得和手机形影不离。
如果你有以下“症状”,你可就得提高警惕,看看自己是否得上了这种“无手机焦虑症”:
■ 从来都不关手机;
■ 时不时地查看有无漏接的来电、邮件和短信;
■ 频繁地为手机充电;
■ 上厕所、洗澡,都得要把手机带在身边。
据最近公开的一项研究显示,患上“无手机焦虑症”的人数相比四年前的一次类似调查,已有所上升。在四年前的那次调查中,就已有53%的人承认自己很担心会丢失手机。
【讲解】
文中的###nomophobia就是“无手机焦虑症”的意思,是指在手机丢失、手机没电或余额不足、不在服务区时,手机用户的焦虑反应。正如文中第二段提到的,这个词由no-、-mo-和-phobia三个词缀(词素)构成。其中no-为否定含义,-mo-是手机(mobile phone)的缩写,而-phobia是英语中常见的一个后缀,带有“害怕、忧虑”的意思,又如acrophobia 恐高症、hydrophobia 恐水症(如狂犬病)、nyctophobia 黑夜恐怖症和trypophobia 密集恐惧症等。