【双语有声阅读】去室外玩耍吧

When It's Light Out, You're Out

 

去室外玩耍吧

Television can be a wonderful learning tool.

电视能成为很好的学习工具。

Thirty-odd years ago, "Sesame Street" ,"The Electric Company" and "Mr. Rogers'Neighbourhood"helped my sons learn to read, count,socialize and cope with feelings.

30多年前，电视节目“芝麻街”，“电子公司”和“罗杰斯显示的街坊四邻”帮助我的儿子们学会了认字，数数，交往，表达情感。

Nature programs on public television taught them an enormous respect for the world at large and the creatures within it.

公共电视台的关于大自然的节目教会他们尊重整个世界以及世间万物。

Not until the boys were old enough to understand how commercials tried to promote consumption were they allowed to watch sports programs on commercial television.

等他们长大到能懂得商业广告是如何促进消费时，才可以让他们看商业电视台的体育节目。

The basic motto of the household was,"When it's light out, you're out"—that is, playing outdoors.

我们家的基本座右铭是一到白天，就得出去。也就是说，去室外玩耍。

With little TV, they were two lean, strong, athletic¹ children who grew up in a home without junk food,did not pester² their parents to buy things they saw advertised,never smoked or drank alcohol and knew more about wildlife than the leader of a trip to Kenya.

由于看电视少，这两个孩子长得精瘦结实，身形矫健。他们在没有垃圾食品的家庭中长大，不缠着父母买他们在广告中看到的东西，从来不吸烟，不喝酒，他们比去肯尼亚旅行的领队更了解野生动物。

Unfortunately, our experience with television is rarely duplicated these days.

不幸的是，我们看电视的经验在今天很少有人效仿。

Sitting passively in front of the tube for hours is taking its toll³ on the bodies and minds of the nation's children.

一连数小时坐在电视机前看电视的这种消遣方式正逐步损害我国儿童的身心。

Studies have documented unhealthy effects on weight,attention span, reading skills and socialization among children who spend hours a day watching television or playing video games.

研究证明，一天有好几个小时在看电视或玩电子游戏的孩子，在体重，注意力，阅读能力，与人交往方面都会受到不利影响。

The average young child in this country watches about four hours of television a day and each year sees tens of thousands of commercials,often for high-fat, high-sugar or high-salt snacks and foods;thousands of episodes of violence;and countless⁴ instances of alcohol use and inappropriate sexual activity.

在这个国家，小孩平均一天看四个小时电视，每年看好几万条广告，经常是一些关于高脂肪，高糖分或高盐分零食的广告；看几千个暴力片断，以及数不清的关于酗酒及性行为的镜头。

By the time American children finish high school,they have spent nearly twice as many hours in front of the television set as in the classroom.

美国儿童在上完高中时，他们待在电视前的世界差不多是他们待在教室的时间的2倍。

1 athletic   

adj.擅长运动的，强健的；活跃的，体格健壮的

参考例句：

• This area has been marked off for athletic practice.这块地方被划出来供体育训练之用。
• He is an athletic star.他是一个运动明星。

2 pester   

v.纠缠，强求

参考例句：

• He told her not to pester him with trifles.他对她说不要为小事而烦扰他。
• Don't pester me.I've got something urgent to attend to.你别跟我蘑菇了，我还有急事呢。

3 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

4 countless   

adj.无数的，多得不计其数的

参考例句：

• In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
• I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。