【新闻天天译3469】161224（你有电话恐惧症吗？）

【每日一句】

心灵最高尚的人，也是最勇敢的人。

【综述】

你有电话恐惧症咩？我好像有一点哎0 0

【双语译文】

Scared of the phone? Here’s how to overcome that fear
如何克服电话恐惧症？
 
By Renuka Rayasam
14 December 2016
作者：雷努卡•雷亚萨姆

Does hearing the phone ring make you panic? Does the thought of making a call give you cold sweats?
听到电话铃响你是否会焦躁不安？想到要打电话是否让你频冒冷汗？

We’re rarely separated from our mobile phones these days, but many people still suffer from a true, deep fear of making a phone call. Recognised as an offshoot of social anxiety disorder, telephobia afflicts people across countries and generations.
我们现在已经手机不离手，但很多人对打电话仍有着深深的恐惧。电话恐惧症是社交焦虑障碍的一种，各个国家、不同年代的人都有或多或少的电话焦虑。

Those who suffer from telephobia might be comfortable delivering a talk in a room full of strangers or might send dozens of text messages a day, but get shivers when they need to talk on the phone.
有电话焦虑症的人可能和一屋子的陌生人也能侃侃而谈，抑或能一整天不停地发短信，但要打电话的时候却往往胆怯退缩。

“For a lot of people, getting on the phone is a particularly complex interaction,” says Jill Isenstadt, vice president of coaching for Joyable, which offers online therapy. “You have to think of things on the fly and you have to respond to what someone is saying to you.”
“对很多人来说，接电话都不是件容易的事。你得想很多事情，还要回应别人对你说的话。”吉尔•艾森斯塔德如是说。吉尔是一家名为“欢乐堡”的在线治疗机构的副总裁。

Technologies that enable communication without directly speaking to someone, have made it easier to mask the problem of telephobia. As a result, the problem has become harder to spot, and there’s no hard data on the prevalence of telephobia. Ultimately, the fear of talking on the phone can have disastrous results for productivity or job mobility.
科技使人无需直接与他人进行交流，这掩盖了电话恐惧者的问题，导致问题更加隐蔽，也没有相关可靠数据以供研究。最后，电话恐惧症可能会对生产和工作产生严重的影响。

 “We have clients who come in and are held back in their careers because they are anxious about interacting with other people,” says Isenstadt. “They avoid it until it becomes dire.”
“我们的客户因为与他人无法平和地互动而在事业上受限，他们总是拖到非做不可的时候才拿起电话。”艾森斯塔德说。

【背景及单词】

1.    Telephobia: phobia n. 恐惧，憎恶，恐惧症。phobia与telephone结合组成telephobia，意为“电话恐惧症”

2.    Therapy: n. 治疗，方法
Application of physical therapy is not wide enough.
物理疗法的应用不够广泛。

3.    Prevalence: n. 流行，广泛，普遍
However, no study on the prevalence of infertility has been conducted in this area.
但是，在这个地区不曾进行过任何关于不孕症流行情况的研究。

4.    Job mobility: 职业流动性
What is the role of globalization in shaping labor markets and job mobility?  
全球化在劳动力市场建设和就业岗位流动方面有什么作用？

5.    Dire: adj. 可怕的，悲惨的，极端的
The government looked as if it would split apart, with dire consequences for domestic peace.
政府看似就要分崩离析，将给国内和平带来可怕的后果。

【上期答案】

问心无愧，永无畏惧。
Keep conscience clear, then never fear.

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