今天小贵花依旧带大家来翻译文章～这几期的专栏都在讲文章翻译。有同学可能会觉得很无趣，因此忽略了这个部分的学习。如果你们都怀抱这种心理去备考的话......那我只能在一旁默默祈祷你们的写作能上6分了！
一直以来，小贵花都主张从阅读中学写作，可能大家不是很理解，但真相只有一个：如果你想要有东西能够输出，就必须要有足够的输入。举个最简单的例子，在玩王者荣耀的时候，你想要伤害高，一打五。且不论技术的好与坏，你首先要配齐装备。配装备需要经济吧，那你就得狂刷小兵野怪，参团拿人头，这也就是所谓的发育。学雅思写作和打游戏其实是一样的，在写之前你们的脑袋里面要有内容。内容哪里来？当然是依靠平时的阅读积累起来。所以，这些干货的重要性就显而易见了。
好吧，下面我们继续一起来看文章！今天的这篇文章叫Pay attention，主要讲的关于专注的问题。希望看完了之后你们能够不再三心二意！
地道词汇积累表达
I wonder how many of you will read this article or listen to my voice right through to the end? With our busy lifestyles and continuous distractions, it's hard to stay focused on one task and I wouldn't be surprised if I lose you somewhere along the way–but we'll see!
Distraction
分散注意力的东西，分心的事情
Focussed专注的
Task任务，工作
Some experts believe that out attention spans are actually shrinking. We often joke that goldfish have the shortest level of concentration, so much so that they forget what they saw nine seconds earlier. Well now a study says that humans have an even shorter span–just eight seconds. This I can believe–there's always so much to do and so much to remember that my brain gets overloaded and I find it hard to zero in on one thing.
Attention span注意力持续时间
Shrink缩小，变小
Zero in on something
把注意力全部集中于某事
Of course, smartphones, the internet and social media all take up a lot of our attention. Chicago-based research firm Dscout found that we look at our mobile phones for, on average, 2.42 hours every day. It is tempting to keep glancing at our phones when we should be focusing on other things and it's something we didn't and couldn't do before the boom in digital media and smartphones, so maybe that's why the amount of time we can concentrate has been dropping. A report carried out for Microsoft said the average human attention span in 2000 was 12 seconds but has now fallen to just eight seconds.
Glance快速的看一眼，扫视
However, a BBC radio programme called More or Less, couldn't find evidence to back up Microsoft's report. It spoke to Dr Gemma Briggs, a psychologist at the Open University, who says there are problems with the idea of measuring attention spans and it's all down to the individual person, "so attention-switching ability may well have developed in recent years, in the age of the smartphone and the internet. But because someone's distracted by their smartphone…it doesn't mean that they then don't have the ability to control and sustain their attention when they carry out another task."
Sustain维持
This suggests we're getting better at switching our attention quickly between different tasks; we can multi-skill better than before so we can achieve more things. This is useful in the modern workplace where we need to turn our hand to many different jobs.
Multi-skill（同时拥有）多种技能
Turn our hand（我们）去尝试
But for people who want to grab our attention, such as advertisers, they have to think of clever ways to make us sit up and take notice of them. And there are still times when something demands our full attention, without any distractions, like reading or listening to this article. Did you make it to the end?!
Grab our attention
抓取我们的注意力
Full attention全部注意力
这是一颗专注于谈恋爱的大脑
希望你们对雅思学习也能这样（笑而不语脸
写作应用示范
1. Attention spans注意力持续时间
Researches reveal that the attention span of children has shrunk due to their increasing addiction to smart phones and many other digital gadgets.
研究表明，孩子的注意力持续时间已经下降，由于他们对智能手机和其他数码产品的越来越强烈的上瘾。
2. the boom in sth.…的急速发展
The boom in the IT industry has resulted in a situation where a large number of students favor programming as their major.
IT行业的急速发展导致了一个情况（在这个情况下，大量学生偏爱编程作为他们的专业）
3. turn one’s hand to sth.承担...，着手做…
In the modern workplace, employees need to turn their hand to many different jobs at the same time.
在现代工作场所，雇员需要在同一时间着手做很多不同的工作。
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