Parents may loathe them, but they are here to stay
父母可能厭惡它們，但它們會一直存在
TURN OFF media, turn on life」, urges the promotional video from South Korea’s Nori Media Education Centre for the Prevention of Internet Addiction, an organisation funded by a mixture of private and public money. Its manager, Kwon Jang-hee, is passionate about protecting children from the ill effects of the internet, and above all of smartphones, which he considers most damaging of all because of their omnipresence. Parents do not understand how dangerous the internet is, he says, pointing to a study by Seoul National University that detected similarities between the brain activity of cocaine addicts and computer-games enthusiasts. If he had his way, youngsters would have to wait for their smartphones until they had graduated from high school.
「關掉媒體，開啟生活。」來自韓國的Nori預防網絡成癮媒體教育中心的宣傳視頻這樣敦促道。這是一家由私人和公共資金混合資助的組織，其主管權正熙（Kwon Jang-hee），音譯）熱衷於保護兒童免受網際網路的不良影響，尤其是智慧型手機——他認為它無處不在因而最具破壞性。他說，家長們並不了解網際網路的危險程度。他引用了首爾國立大學的一項研究，該研究發現了古柯鹼成癮者與電腦遊戲愛好者的大腦活動有相似之處。如果他的努力能成功，年輕人將不得不等到高中畢業才能擁有自己的智慧型手機。
In one of the world’s most highly connected societies there is little chance that he will get his wish, but plenty of South Korean parents agree that their children are overdosing on screens. A recent government survey on smartphone and internet addiction put the share of three- to nine-year-olds at high risk of addiction at 1.2% and that of teenagers at 3.5%. That may not seem a lot, but when it happens the effects can be devastating. Some of these children are on their phones for at least eight hours a day and lose interest in offline life. Having tried and failed to wean them from their devices, their desperate parents turn to the government, which offers various kinds of counselling, therapy and, in extreme cases, remedial boot camps.
韓國是世界上人際聯繫最緊密的社會之一，他實現自己願望的希望很渺茫，但很多韓國父母也都認同孩子們看屏幕太多了。最近一項關於智慧型手機和網絡成癮的政府調查顯示，有高成癮風險的三至九歲兒童的比例達1.2%，而青少年的這一比例為3.5%。這看起來可能不是很多，但一旦成癮，其影響可能是毀滅性的。這些孩子中的一些人每天至少要玩手機八個小時，對線下生活失去興趣。在嘗試讓他們戒斷設備未果後，絕望的父母們向政府求助。政府提供各種諮詢和治療，在極端情況下還提供糾正性訓練營。
Hong Hyun-joo, who works on the boot-camp programme for the regional government of Gyeonggi, South Korea’s most populous province, says the kids undergoing the treatment are usually aged 14-16, with about the same number of boys and girls. They hand in their smartphones when they arrive at the boot camp and spend 12 days living in dormitories, eating regular meals and engaging in lots of sport and group activities. The aim is to increase their self-esteem and get them to make friends. They mostly start off sullen but gradually become more co-operative. The claimed 「cure」 rate (meaning a return to more normal usage) is 70-75%. But the camps can take only a few hundred children a year, not remotely enough to meet demand. That would take a lot more money.
為韓國人口最多的省份京畿道的地區政府開展訓練營計劃的洪賢珠（Hong Hyun-joo）表示，接受治療的孩子通常年齡在14到16歲之間，男孩和女孩人數大致相同。他們在到達訓練營時上交手機，在宿舍裡生活12天，規律進餐並參加大量體育和團體活動。其目的是讓他們提高自尊並結交朋友。他們大多在剛開始時悶悶不樂，但逐漸變得更合作。聲稱的「治癒」率（意味著恢復較為正常的使用方式）為70%到75%。但這些訓練營每年只能接收幾百名兒童，遠不足以滿足需求——那還需要多得多的錢。
South Korea is thought to have the world’s highest rate of problematic internet use among both children and adults, but concern about children’s growing use of digital media in the West is also rising, especially in America. In 2015, the latest year for which internationally comparable figures are available, nine out of ten 15-year-olds across the OECD had access to a smartphone. They spent an average of 18½ hours a week online, nearly five hours more than in 2012, so the figure is probably even higher now. About 16% of these kids were extreme users, defined as spending more than six hours a day online. The number of children who did not use the internet at all was vanishingly small.
韓國被認為是世界上兒童和成人網際網路使用問題最高發的國家，但西方世界對兒童更多使用數字媒體的擔憂也在增加，特別是在美國。2015年是有國際可比數據的最近一年，在經合組織國家，15歲的人中有九成可以使用智慧型手機。他們平均每周在線花費18.5小時，比2012年多出近5個小時，所以這個數字現在可能又更高了。這些孩子中約有16%是「極端用戶」，即每天在線時間超過6小時。完全不使用網際網路的兒童人數極少。
✓protect sb. from the ill effects of... 保護某人免受.的不良影響
✓above all 尤其 e.g. He loves music, and above all classical music. 他喜歡音樂，尤其是古典音樂。
此外，該短語還有最重要的是的意思，來看《簡·愛》裡的一句話：And above all she had her mother's pride and hardness. 最重要的是，她繼承了母親的強硬和傲慢。
✓omnipresent [ɒmnɪ'prez(ə)nt] 無處不在的，BBC News以前在一篇報導電臺（radio）的文章中出現過一句話：And I think what's really remarkable about radio is how omnipresent it is. 我認為電臺之所以不同尋常，是因為它無處不在，隨處可見。
註：本文中出現的是該詞的名詞形式omnipresence
✓cocaine [kə(ʊ)'keɪn] 古柯鹼
☞ 「電腦遊戲愛好者」怎麼說？
computer-games enthusiasts
✓have one's way 依某人的意志行事，來看其英文釋義：to get or do what one wants to get or do despite the desires, plans, etc., of other people
e.g. If I had my way, students at the school would all wear uniforms. 依我來看，學生們都應該穿校服。
✓overdose ['əʊvədəʊs] 過分沉溺 e.g. The city, he concluded, had overdosed on design. 他的結論是這座城市過分重視規劃設計了。
從原文及上面的例句提煉表達：overdose on... 過分重視/沉溺於.
✓wean sb. from... 使某人逐漸停止對.的依賴，來看其英文釋義：to make soemone gradually stop depending on something that they like and have become used to, especially a drug or a bad habit，來看往期《經濟學人》裡的一個🌰：Social liberalisation is part of the crownprince's ambition to wean the economy away from oil. 社會自由化是王儲薩爾曼試圖讓沙特經濟擺脫對石油的依賴這套宏大戰略的一部分。
✓turn to sb. 求助於某人 e.g. I live alone and have no one to turn to. 我一個人住，也沒人能求助。
✓remedial [rɪ'miːdɪəl] 治療的；幫助康復的 e.g. He is already walking normally and doing remedial exercises. 他已經可以正常行走了，而且正在進行康復訓練。
✓boot camp 訓練營，來看其英文釋義：a short but very difficult training program : a program or situation that helps people become much better at doing something in a short period of time
☞ 「接受治療」怎麼說？
undergo the treatment
✓engage in sth. = do sth. 做/參加. e.g. At college she engaged in various sports. 上大學時她練習了各種各樣的體育項目。
✓start off（以某種特定的方式）開始，來看其英文釋義：to start or cause (something) to start in a specified way
e.g. The performance started off badly.
這場表演一開始就很糟。
✓sullen ['sʌlən] 不高興的 e.g. Bob looked pale and sullen. 鮑勃臉色蒼白，悶悶不樂。
✓remotely [rɪ'məʊtlɪ] 程度很低地 e.g. I'm afraid we're not remotely interested in your proposal. 很抱歉，我們對你的建議絲毫不感興趣。
✓meet demand 滿足需求
☞ 「滿足.的需求」怎麼說？
meet the demands of...，來看CRI News的一個🌰：We have worked hard to meet the demands of both parking lot owners and drivers. 我們努力滿足停車場擁有者和車主兩方面的需要。
✓have access to... 可以使用.，e.g. We now have access to the Internet. 我們現在可以連上網絡了。
✓vanishingly ['vænɪʃɪŋlɪ] 難以察覺地，極其地 e.g. The chances of dying under anaesthetic are vanishingly small. 接受麻醉後死亡的機率是極小的。
Hong Hyun-joo, who works on the boot-camp programme for the regional government of Gyeonggi, South Korea’s most populous province, says the kids undergoing the treatment are usually aged 14-16, with about the same number of boys and girls.
這句話的主幹：
Hong Hyun-joo says the kids undergoing the treatment are usually aged 14-16, with about the same number of boys and girls.
其中，undergoing the treatment是現在分詞作後置定語修飾the kids
其它成分分析：
非限制性定語從句：who works on the boot-camp programme for the regional government of Gyeonggi
同位語：South Korea’s most populous province
P1 & P2
韓國兒童網絡成癮嚴重，家長向政府求助
P3
介紹韓國政府針對網絡成癮兒童的訓練營
P4
除了韓國，其他國家的兒童網絡成癮也是比較嚴重的
（讀外刊，看世界）
聽音頻，將挖空的部分補上（不許偷偷看上面的原文哦）
TURN OFF media, turn on life」, urges the promotional video from South Korea’s Nori Media Education Centre for the Prevention of Internet Addiction, 1.___. Its manager, Kwon Jang-hee, is passionate about protecting children from the ill effects of the internet, and above all of smartphones, which he considers most damaging of all because of their omnipresence. Parents do not understand how dangerous the internet is, he says, 2.___. If he had his way, youngsters would have to wait for their smartphones until they had graduated from high school.
In one of the world’s most highly connected societies there is little chance that he will get his wish, 3.___. A recent government survey on smartphone and internet addiction put the share of three- to nine-year-olds at high risk of addiction at 1.2% and that of teenagers at 3.5%. That may not seem a lot, but when it happens the effects can be devastating. Some of these children are on their phones for at least eight hours a day and lose interest in offline life. 4.___, their desperate parents turn to the government, which offers various kinds of counselling, therapy and, in extreme cases, remedial boot camps.
Hong Hyun-joo, who works on the boot-camp programme for the regional government of Gyeonggi, South Korea’s most populous province, says the kids undergoing the treatment are usually aged 14-16, with about the same number of boys and girls. They hand in their smartphones when they arrive at the boot camp and spend 12 days 5.___. The aim is to increase their self-esteem and get them to make friends. They mostly start off sullen but gradually become more co-operative. The claimed 「cure」 rate (meaning a return to more normal usage) is 70-75%. But the camps can take only a few hundred children a year, not remotely enough to meet demand. That would take a lot more money.
South Korea is thought to have the world’s highest rate of problematic internet use among both children and adults, but concern about children’s growing use of digital media in the West is also rising, especially in America. In 2015, the latest year for which internationally comparable figures are available, nine out of ten 15-year-olds across the OECD had access to a smartphone. They spent an average of 18½ hours a week online, nearly five hours more than in 2012, so the figure is probably even higher now. 6.___. 7.___.
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