英语四级备考MP3成青少年听觉杀手_大学英语阅读

英语四级备考MP3成青少年听觉杀手

　　Millions of youngsters across Europe could suffer permanent hearing loss after five years if they listen to MP3 players at too high a volume for more than five hours a week, EU scientists warned Monday.

　　欧盟科学家于本周一向欧洲数百万年轻的MP3使用者发出警告，如果他们以很高的音量每周听MP3超过五个小时，五年后可能会永久失聪。

　　The scientists study, requested by the European Commission, attacked the concept of leisure noise, saying children and teenagers should be protected from increasingly high sound levels -- with loud mobile phones also coming in for criticism.

　　欧洲委员会委托开展的此项研究矛头直指时下的休闲噪音，并指出青少年尤其要远离过高音量。同时，手机噪音也成为被抨击的对象。

　　There has been increasing concern about exposure from the new generation of personal music players which can reproduce sounds at very high volumes without loss of quality, the Commission, the EUs executive arm, said in a statement.

　　欧盟执行机构欧洲委员会在一份声明中表示：新一代的音乐播放器在以很高音量播放音乐的情况下仍能够保证声音不失真，而这所引发的听觉安全问题已受到越来越多的关注。

　　Risk for hearing damage depends on sound level and exposure time, it said. More and more young people were exposed to the significant threat that leisure noise posed to hearing, it said.