Have you got an addictive nature? Are you unable to stop yourself joining in with the latest obsession for collecting or doing something? This probably describes most of us because it's only human nature to not want to miss out on something that everyone else is talking about.
你有上瘾的天性吗？你无法阻止自己加入最新的痴迷收藏或者阻止自己做某些事情？这大概描述了我们大部分人的情况，因为，不想错过某些人谈论的事情仅仅是人类的天性。
Most fads arrive suddenly and enthusiasm for them spreads quickly. They become a talking point on social media; we read about them, give them a try and, before we know it, we are hooked.In the past, these have been objects such as toys and games. Maybe you were the proud owner of a Rubik's cube, which became the best-selling toy of all time – around 350 million have been sold so far.
大部分流行元素都是突然而至的，对它们的热情迅速蔓延，它们变成社交媒体的话题；我们读到它们，尝试它们，在我们知道前，我们就着迷了。在过去，这些一直是一种物体，象玩具或者游戏，也许你是一直以来是最畅销的玩具魔方的骄傲的主人，迄今为止，已经销售出去3.5亿个魔方。
Now, technology is driving the latest crazes. In some parts of the world, flavour of the month isPokémon Go– a game that uses augmented reality,where little virtual monsters pop up onto your phone and you have to catch them. And games such as Angry Birds and Minecraft are other crazes, available on smartphones and tablets, that have been hard to put down.
现在，科学技术正在驱动最新的狂热，在世界上某些地方，最受欢迎的是《口袋妖怪》，它是一款增强现实感的游戏，虚拟怪物弹入到你的手机，你要去抓住它们，比如《愤怒的小鸟》和《我的世界》这些游戏一样的狂热，可以在智能手机或者平板电脑上玩，让你难以放下。
Our keeness to participate in crazes has been analysed by experts. One of them, Dr Ben Michaelis, a clinical psychologist, explains that we want to experience the benefit that another person, or group of people, have experienced from something and this "hooks into an ancient evolutionary fear of being left behind or abandoned by our tribes"; we have to join in or lose out.
专家们已经分析过我们这种迷恋游戏的行为，专家之一，米世博司邦博士，一名诊疗心理学家，他解释说，我们想要去体验别人或者一群人体验过的益处，主要原因是我们担心被我们的部落遗弃或者被抛到后面，这是一种古老的进化恐惧，我们不得不加入进去，否则我们就会落后。
Although becoming addicted to a computer game might not seem like a 'benefit', it can at least give you credibility or popularity among your friends. It allows you to learn new skills and gives you something to talk about at parties!
尽管迷恋电脑游戏看起来不象有什么“益处”，但是至少可以使你在你朋友们之中树立威信。它可以让你学习到新的技能，能够在聚会时提供谈资。
But fashions come and go and most fads are just a flash in the pan so if one of them is not your cup of tea,don't worry: there'll be a new craze arriving very soon. Look at the addiction to the unsophisticated loom bands– those little rubber bands you could make jewellery and other things out of. For a brief period they were the must-have item for any schoolchild, now they're the bargain bucket item in a discount shop or worse still, trash filling up our landfill sites! What crazes have you been addicted to?
但是时尚的东西都是来来去去，大部分时尚的东西都仅仅是昙花一现，所以其中一个时尚物不合你心意，你不必担心：不久将有一个新的狂热物来临。看看对橡皮筋上瘾的，那些小小的橡皮筋，你可以做成珠宝或者其他东西，在有段短暂的时期内，它们是孩童时代的必需品，而现在它们是折扣店讨价还价的商品，或者更糟的是，它们是我们垃圾填埋场的垃圾！你对什么上过瘾呢？
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