大学生能忍住一个多小时不碰手机吗？
Can College Students Stand to Ditch Their Phones for an Hour or So?
文本难度：考研
Nearly every student clutches a phone in one hand as they traverse the University of Central Florida campus, even while walking in groups. Laptops and tablets are lunchtime companions, and earbuds and headphones are routine accessories. While waiting for class to start, many students sit in silence, drawn into their devices.
在中佛罗里达大学的校园里，几乎每个学生手里都紧紧攥着一部手机，哪怕是一群人结伴而行也是如此。笔记本电脑和平板成了午餐时间的标配，耳机和耳塞更是日常必备。在课前等待的间隙，许多学生也是安静坐着，全身心沉浸在自己的电子设备中。
It is a familiar and exasperating scene for Seán Killingsworth, 22, a former U. C. F. Student. “What is this life I’m signing up for?” he asked himself during his sophomore year. “It was just like, I’m talking to a bunch of zombies.”
对于22岁、曾在中佛罗里达大学上过学的肖恩·基林斯沃思（Seán Killingsworth）来说，这是一幕既熟悉又令人无奈的场景。“我来读大学就是为了过这种生活吗？”他在大二时曾这样问自己，“感觉我就像在跟一群行尸走肉说话。”
Mr. Killingsworth craved a space where he could chat with his peers without feeling as though he was intruding. When he was in high school, he ran into similar conundrums, so he would organize phone-free hangouts with friends. Why not in college too?
基林斯沃思渴望能有这样一个空间，能让他可以和同龄人畅聊，而不会觉得自己在打扰别人。上高中时，他也遇到过类似的难题，所以他会组织朋友们一起进行“无手机聚会”。既然如此，为什么上了大学就不能这么做呢？
In 2023, he helped bring the idea of no-phone social time to two different Florida campuses – U. C. F. And Rollins College. He called it the Reconnect Movement: During meetings, everyone was required to hand over their phone and socialize without devices, a concept that has become a big draw for like-minded students.
2023年，他将“无手机社交时间”的理念带到了佛罗里达州的两所高校——中佛罗里达大学和罗林斯学院。他称之为“重连运动（Reconnect Movement）”：在聚会期间，每个人都必须上交手机，在没有电子设备干扰的情况下进行交流。这一理念对许多志同道合的学生产生了巨大吸引力。
Reconnect’s popularity dovetails with a cultural shift in how smartphones and social media are perceived by adults and adolescents alike. Experts have sounded the alarm about the potential mental health dangers of digital media, even though it’s hard to prove a causal connection between this technology and the rising rates of loneliness, anxiety and depression in young people.
“重连运动”的流行，恰与成年人和青少年对智能手机及社交媒体的看法发生文化性转变的现象相呼应。尽管目前很难证明数字媒体与年轻人中日益加剧的孤独、焦虑和抑郁发生率之间存在直接的因果关系，专家们还是就其可能带来的心理健康隐患敲响了警钟。
Campaigns to reduce or delay smartphone use like “Wait Until 8th” and books like Jonathan Haidt’s best-selling “The Anxious Generation” have struck a deep chord, particularly with parents.
诸如“等到八年级再用手机（Wait Until 8th）”这类旨在减少或推迟使用智能手机的倡议，以及乔纳森·海特（Jonathan Haidt）的畅销书《焦虑的一代》（The Anxious Generation）等书籍，都深深触动了公众，尤其是家长群体。
Student-led movements have often encouraged phone abstinence, but Mr. Killingsworth’s Reconnect Movement doesn’t push students to change their relationship with technology. Instead, it aims to create what he called “human connection habitats” that eliminate the need for willpower.
以往由学生发起的运动往往鼓励大家戒掉手机，但基林斯沃思的“重连运动”并没有强迫学生去改变自身与科技的关系。相反，它的目标是打造他所说的“人类联结栖息地”，让人们不再需要依靠意志力来抵抗手机的诱惑。
The idea isn’t particularly novel, Mr. Killingsworth said, but novel isn’t what his generation needs. “Gen Z needs a normal that we’ve never experienced,” he said.
基林斯沃思表示，这个想法其实并不新奇，但他这一代人需要的本就不是新奇，“Z世代需要的是一种我们从未体验过的‘正常生活’。”
On a recent sticky afternoon nearly 40 students gathered at the U. C. F. Campus arboretum for the first Reconnect meeting of the fall semester. After surrendering their devices to a “phone valet,” they sat cross-legged on patchwork blankets and prepared to spend one hour without screens.
最近，在一个闷热潮湿的下午，近40名学生聚集在中佛罗里达大学校园的树木园，举行秋季学期的第一次“重连”聚会。在将设备交给“手机代管员”后，他们盘腿坐在拼布毯子上，准备共同度过一个小时没有电子屏幕的时光。
As a CD player belted out reggae music from the band Stick Figure, many of the students began to make eye contact and small talk. You would be forgiven for thinking you had been transported back 20 years.
当CD机播放起 Stick Figure 乐队的雷鬼音乐，许多学生开始看向彼此并闲聊起来。这一幕，难免让人恍惚，以为自己穿越回了二十年前。
【词汇】
1. traverse v. 横穿；走过
2. exasperating adj.使人沮丧的
3. sophomore n. （高中或大学的）二年级学生
4. zombie n. 僵尸；行尸走肉般的人
5. conundrum n. 难题
6. dovetail v. 完美契合
7. causal adj.有因果关系的
8. abstinence n.戒除
9. Gen Z n. Z世代（通常指1997-2012年间出生的人）
10. arboretum n. 植物园；树木园
11. valet n. 男仆从，文中特指帮忙保管手机的人
12. reggae n. 雷鬼音乐
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