2023年12月六级第2套仔细阅读 Passage 1 原文翻译及答案解析

Could you get by without using the internet for four and a half years? That's exactly what singer and actress Selena Gomez has done in a bid to improve her mental health.

你能不使用互联网度过四年半吗？这正是歌手兼演员塞莱娜·戈麦斯为了改善心理健康所做的事。

She has spoken extensively about the relationship between her social media usage and her mental wellbeing, recalling feeling like "an addict" when she became Instagram's most followed user in 2016."Taking a break from social media was the best decision that I've ever made for my mental health", says she. "The unnecessary hate and comparisons went away once I put my phone down."

她广泛谈论了社交媒体使用与心理健康之间的关系，回忆起2016年成为Instagram最受关注用户时感觉自己像“一个瘾君子”。“远离社交媒体是为我心理健康做出的最佳决定，”她说。“一旦我放下手机，不必要的仇恨和比较就消失了。”

Ditching the web at large, however, is a far more subtle and complicated prospect. The increasing digitisation of our society means that everything from paying a gas bill to plotting a route to a friend's house and even making a phone call is at the mercy of your internet connection. Actively opting out of using the internet becomes a matter of privilege.

然而，完全弃用互联网则是一个更为微妙和复杂的前景。我们社会日益数字化意味着，从支付燃气费到规划去朋友家的路线，甚至打电话，一切都取决于你的互联网连接。主动选择不使用互联网成为一种特权。

Ms. Gomez's multi-millionaire status has allowed her to take the "social" out of social media, so she can continue to leverage her enormous fame while keeping the trolls (恶意挑衅的帖子) at bay. The fact that she's still the second most-followed woman on Instagram suggests it's entirely possible to maintain a significant web profile to promote various projects-by way of a dedicated team—without being exposed to the cruel comments, hate mail and rape or death threats.

戈麦斯女士的亿万富翁身份使她能够将社交媒体中的“社交”剥离，从而继续利用她的巨大名声，同时远离那些恶意挑衅的帖子。她仍然是Instagram上第二受关注的女性，这一事实表明，完全有可能通过专业团队维护重要的网络形象来推广各种项目，而不必暴露于残酷评论、仇恨邮件以及强奸或死亡威胁之下。

It goes without saying that this is fundamentally different from how the rest of us without beauty deals and films to publicise use the likes of Instagram, TikTok and Twitter, but even the concept of a digital detox (戒瘾) requires having a device and connectivity to choose to disconnect from.

不言而喻，这与我们其余那些没有美容代言和电影要宣传的人如何使用Instagram、TikTok和Twitter等平台有根本不同，但即使是数字戒瘾的概念，也需要拥有设备和连接才能选择断开。

The UK's digital divide has worsened over the past two years, leaving poorer families without broadband connections in their homes. Digital exclusion is a major threat to wider societal equality in the UK, so witnessing companies like Facebook championing the metaverse (元宇宙) as the next great frontier when school children are struggling to complete their homework feels particularly irritating.

英国的数字鸿沟在过去两年中恶化，使贫困家庭在家中无法获得宽带连接。数字排斥是对英国更广泛社会平等的重大威胁，因此看到像Facebook这样的公司将元宇宙吹捧为下一个伟大前沿，而学童们却挣扎着完成作业，尤其令人恼火。

Consequently, it's worth bearing in mind that while deleting all social media accounts will undoubtedly make some feel infinitely better, many other people benefit from the strong sense of community that sharing platforms can breed.

因此，值得记住的是，虽然删除所有社交媒体账户无疑会让一些人感觉无比更好，但许多其他人也从分享平台所能培养的强烈社区感中受益。

Internet access will continue to grow in importance as we edge further towards web 3.0, and greater resources and initiatives are needed to provide the underprivileged with the connectivity they desperately need to learn, work and live. It's crucial that people who feel that social media is having a detrimental effect on their mental health are allowed to switch off and for those living in digital exclusion to be able to switch on in the first place.

随着我们进一步迈向web 3.0，互联网接入的重要性将继续增长，需要更多的资源和举措来为弱势群体提供他们学习、工作和生活所迫切需要的连接。至关重要的是，那些感到社交媒体对心理健康产生有害影响的人被允许关闭，而生活在数字排斥中的人则能够首先开启。