中枪?你有"低电量焦虑症"吗?
每当手机的电量变低时,人们就会出现焦躁的情绪,担心万一没电了怎么办。这就是低电量焦虑。
【相关英文报道】
Low battery anxiety describes the condition where people get panicked and annoyed when your phone's battery is dangerously close to the 20 percent mark.
低电量焦虑指手机电量接近20%报警值时,人们会变得恐慌和焦躁的状况。
When faced with only a few minutes of power, half of smartphone users will use the remaining time to text, while 35 percent will use their last moments to make a phone call.
手机只剩下几分钟电量的时候,有一半的智能手机用户会用余下的电量发信息,35%的用户会打个电话。
Around 46 percent of people say they feel embarrassed to ask a total stranger to use their charger, but would anyway because the anxiety of a dead smartphone is too great.
46%的人表示跟完全不相识的陌生人借充电器会很尴尬,但还是会开口借充电器,因为太担心手机关机了。
【讲解】
文中的 low battery anxiety 就是“低电量焦虑”的意思,其中 anxiety 用作名词,意为“焦虑;担心;渴望”,常见的词汇搭配有:endless anxiety(无限忧虑)、constant anxiety(长期的烦恼)、unnecessary anxiety(不必要的烦恼);anxious为形容词拓展,意为“渴望的;忧虑的”。
第二段中的remaining用作形容词,意为“剩余的”,如:Guests were crowded into the few remaining rooms.(客人都挤在剩余的几个房间里了。)(转自海词)