高职国际进阶英语综合教程1unit5课文原文和译文
Home entertainment in the USA
What is the difference between “entertainment” and “hobbies”? Well, you don’t really do anything with entertainment (you get entertained), while hobbies are more active (you do hobbies).
Watching TV is still the most popular form of home entertainment in the USA. According to US government statistics, watching TV is the leisure activity that occupies the most time (2.8 hours per day). This is about half of all leisure time that tho aged 15 and over have.
Visiting friends or chatting online is the next most common leisure activity. This takes up nearly 45 minutes every day.
Men are more interested in spectator sports than women – 21 per cent compared with a figure of 16 per cent for women.
It is not surprising that on an average day, adults aged 75 and over spend 7.8 hours on leisure activities. This is more than any other age group. Becau they have to go to work and run a houhold, 35-to 44-year-olds spend only 4.3 hours on leisure activities. This is less than any other age group.
The time that different age groups spend reading, playing video games or using a computer for leisure is different, too. People aged 75 and over read about one hour per weekend day; they play video games or u a computer for leisure for about 26 minutes. People aged 15 to 19
read for an average of only 5 minutes per weekend day, but they spend one hour playing video games or using a computer for leisure.
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However, this is beginning to change. Just a few years ago, playing computer games and visiting social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace was something almost only young people did. Now, more and more older people are doing it. They find that it can be a wonderful way of relaxing after a hard day’s work.
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美国的家庭娱乐
“娱乐”与“爱好”区别在哪里呢？娱乐你无需做任何事情（你得到娱乐），而爱好则更加主动一些（你从事业余爱好）。
感冒怎么治疗看电视或者DVD仍然是美国家庭最常见的娱乐方式。根据美国政府的数据，看电视是人们花时间最多的休闲活动（平均每天2.8个小时），占15岁及15岁以上人口所有空闲时间的一半左右。
拜访朋友或者网聊是第二大休闲活动，这类休闲活动每天大约占用45分钟。
同女性相比，男性更喜欢观赏性体育运动——男士的比例为21%，女士的比例为16%。讲个故事
75岁及75岁以上的人通常每天在休闲活动上平均会花7.8个小时，多于其他任何一个年龄段，这不足为怪。由于工作及家庭的双重压力，35—44岁的人休闲活动的时间仅为4.3小
时，少于其他任何一
个年龄段。
不同年龄段的人花在阅读、玩视频游戏或电脑娱乐上的时间也不同。75岁及以上人士周末每天阅读时间平均为大约1小时，玩视频游戏或电脑娱乐的时间约为26分钟。相比之下，15—19岁年龄段的人周末每天阅读时间平均仅为5分钟，但其玩视频游戏或电脑娱乐的时间则为1个小时。
不过，这已经在发生改变。就在几年前，玩电脑游戏和上社交网站（例如“脸谱”或者“我的空间”）还只是年轻人做的事。如今，越来越多的成年人也在这么做，因为他们发现辛苦工作一天之后，玩电脑游戏其实是一种不错的放松方式。
Computer addiction
哄人开心的笑话“The computer is my only and best friend. I can’t live without it. I’d be lost.”
Surveys show that a large number of people all over the world are computer-addicted. La
modem是什么st Monday, Jason, 17, killed himlf when his computer broke down. Jason is just one of the increasing number of victims of computer addiction.
Jason’s problems started just five months ago when he asked his parents to buy him a computer. All his friends already had one. Like
many teenagers, Jason did not want to be an outsider. His mom and dad agreed.
沉寂拼音In the beginning, Jason’s parents were proud of him: “He spent a lot of time in front of his computer becau he had to learn how it worked. We didn’t really worry becau he still met his friends and hung out with them, too. The computer wasn’t the only thing in his life.”
But then everything changed. Jason found a website where he could play chess either against the computer or against other people from all over the world. That was when he began to withdraw from the real world and live in a virtual one. His parents told him that he was spending too much time with his computer. They talked about computer addiction but Jason refud to admit that he had a problem at all.
Then his computer broke down, and his parents decided not to buy him a new one. At first, Jason couldn’t believe it. He pleaded with his parents to buy him a new computer. He said that he needed it for school. He promid that he would not spend so much time on it and so on. But his parents said no. Finally, Jason became so desperate that he killed himlf.木下秀吉
How is it possible that a machine can play such an important role in someone’s life? Robert Johnson, an expert on the subject, says, “Computer addiction is a rious illness that can affect anyone of us. More and more people are spending more and more time working with
computers, either for business or private reasons. This isn’t a problem for most urs. But some people, particularly teenage males, u the computer to escape from the real world. That’s when the problems start.”
Rearch shows that this is especially true of shy, introverted people. For them, meeting people online is a way of hiding their true lves. In cyberspace, they can be whoever the
y want to be and create their own virtual world. But what happens when they can no longer access their virtual world? Life as they know it ceas to exist.
