???? Britain's children are being poisoned by a "junk culture"of processed food, computer games and over-competitive education, an influential group of children's authors and experts warned。
一群有影響力的兒童作家、專家警告道，由加工食品、電腦游戲和競爭過于激烈的教育構(gòu)成的“垃圾文化”正在毒害英國的兒童。
In an open letter to The Daily Telegraph, 110 teachers, psychologists and children's authors including the internationally acclaimed author Philip Pullman1 and Penelope Leach, a leading childcare expert--called on the government to act now to prevent childhood being killed off altogether。
在致《每日電訊報(bào)》的一封公開信中，110名教師、心理學(xué)家和兒童作家——包括世界聞名的作家菲利普? 普爾曼以及頂級(jí)兒童保育專家佩內(nèi)洛普? 利奇——呼吁政府馬上采取行動(dòng)，阻止“垃圾文化”把孩子們的童年完全毀掉。
Forced "to act and dress like mini-adults," children are becoming increasingly depressed and experiencing escalating levels of behavioral and developmental problems, they said。
他們說，孩子們被迫采用“小大人”式的行為方式與穿著打扮，結(jié)果變得越來越壓抑，行為和個(gè)人發(fā)展方面的問題也日趨嚴(yán)重。
Since children's brains are still developing, they cannot adjust as full-grown adults can, to the effects of ever more rapid technological and cultural change," the letter said。
信中說道：“由于孩子們的大腦仍處在發(fā)育階段，所以面對(duì)日新月異的科技、文化帶來的影響，他們無法像成人那樣去調(diào)整自己。"They need what developing human beings have always needed, including real food (as opposed to processed "junk")， real play (as opposed to sedentary, screen based entertainment)， first hand experience of the world they live in and regular interaction with the real-life significant adults in their lives。
“未成年人一直以來就需要的那些東西，如天然食品而不是 “垃圾加工食品”、真實(shí)的游戲而非久坐在電腦屏幕前的娛樂、對(duì)自己生活的世界的第一手體驗(yàn)、與真實(shí)生活中那些他們生命中重要的大人經(jīng)常性的交流，這些東西現(xiàn)在的孩子也需要?！?
The experts condemned Britain's increasingly "target-driven" education system and urged the government to recognize children's need for more time and space to develop。
專家們指責(zé)英國愈演愈烈的“目標(biāo)導(dǎo)向”的教育體系，督促政府認(rèn)識(shí)到兒童需要更多的時(shí)間與空間去發(fā)展自我。