英语热词：“忙碌儿童综合征” 儿童暑假也忙碌

 　　暑假到了，早高峰的公交地铁上，人们经常看到父母带着孩子背着大书包啃着汉堡去赶补习班的身影。假期的孩子过得好像比学期还要忙碌。

　　Hurried child syndrome¹ refers to a condition in which parents overschedule their children's lives, push them hard for academic success, and expect them to behave and react as miniature adults.

　　“忙碌儿童综合征”指的是家长将孩子的生活安排得过满、极力要求孩子在学业上取得佳绩，并且希望孩子表现得像小大人一样的现象。

　　The concept of the hurried child was first proposed by child psychologist David Elkind in his now-classic 1981 book The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast.

　　“忙碌儿童”这个概念是由心理学家大卫o艾尔金德在其1981年出版的经典著作《忙碌儿童：成长得太快》首次提出的。

　　One symptom of the hurried child syndrome is forcing pre-school children to constantly take classes and perform other "enrichment" exercises to help them prepare for school. This is also called hothousing and the superbaby syndrome.

　　“忙碌儿童综合征”的症状之一就是强迫学龄前儿童不断参加各种辅导班和特长培训，以帮助他们为入学做好准备。这种现象也被称为“温室培育”和“超级宝贝综合征”。

1 syndrome   

n.综合病症；并存特性

参考例句：

• The Institute says that an unidentified virus is to blame for the syndrome. 该研究所表示,引起这种综合症的是一种尚未确认的病毒。
• Results indicated that 11 fetuses had Down syndrome. 结果表明有11个胎儿患有唐氏综合征。