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.
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!
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?
词汇表 addictive nature (易)上瘾的天性
obsession 使人痴迷的人或事
fad 一时的流行,短暂的狂热
enthusiasm 热情,巨大兴趣
talking point 话题
hooked 上瘾的,入迷的
best-selling 畅销的
flavour of the month (某时期内)最受欢迎的人或物
【The fear of missing out 错失恐惧症】相关文章:
★ Giraffes' decline; female bullfighter 长颈鹿数量骤减,西班牙女斗牛士
★ What your desk says about you 桌面物品的摆放方式可揭示人格特征
★ The rise of the emoji 表情符号的兴起
★ 印度计划减少碳排
★ The language of smartphone addiction 从“手机瘾”衍生出的新词
★ Great Barrier Reef destruction, mission to clean space 澳洲大堡礁珊瑚大规模死亡、清理太空垃圾
★ Metonymy and synecdoche 修辞法:转喻和提喻
最新
2019-11-15
2019-11-15
2019-11-15
2019-11-15
2019-11-15
2019-11-15