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Student suicides

 

社會氣氛、家庭生活、學校期望，今天莘莘學子的成長之路，往往淹沒在壓力之下。

他們的心聲，我們聽到嗎？   

 

Twenty-two young people have taken their lives so far this academic year. Is the city’s pressure-cooker education system solely to blame – or is it more complex?
[14 March 2016, SCMP]

 

take their lives 了結生命 / 自殺
= kill themselves = commit suicide

例子：Twenty-two young people have committed suicide so far this academic year.

 

為了遏止這個令人憂心的趨勢，教育、保健和青少年成長方面的專家抓破頭皮，希望了解背後原因：

Experts in the education, health and youth fields are desperately trying to understand the reasons and arrest the worrying trend.

 

arrest 停止
(verb 動詞)

► arrest the worrying trend 停止令人憂心的趨勢

► sth interesting arrests your attention 引人注目

= draw your attention

 

雖說學習壓力大是學童自殺的主因，但專家指出，悲劇成因複雜，絕非一時三刻的事：

While Hong Kong’s high-pressure education system is seen as largely to blame, with too much focus on score-oriented assessments putting pressure on students, experts contend the issue of youth suicide is complex and that the seeds of the problems are being sown much earlier than we realise.

 

sow 播種
(verb動詞)

► to sow the seeds of the problems 為... 埋下伏線

例子：Industrialisation has sown the seeds of global warming.

 

有人認為，青少年過度沉迷虛擬世界，有機會削弱他們抵受壓力和難關的能力：

Experts are warning that spending a lot of time in the virtual world and having a lack of family support could be contributing to the problem, as these factors are shaping a generation with weaker resilience against stress and problems.

 

resilience 適應能力
(noun 名詞)

反義詞：vulnerability (vulnerable), fragility (fragile) 脆弱

 

比較全面地看年初接二連三的學童自殺案，可概括出六大隱藏因素：

 

  • educational atmosphere 教育氣氛
  • family education 家庭教育
  • students' falling counter-adversity ability 學生抗逆能力下降
  • changed ways of communication 溝通方式改變
  • mood disorders and circumstantial changes 情緒病及環境轉變

 

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分析圖表及趨勢關鍵字系列：「急升」

Since the start of the academic year, a spike in the number of students in Hong Kong who have committed suicide has seen 22 young people.

 

spike 釘
(noun 名詞)

► a spike in 急升

= a sudden increase

 

例子：a spike in the price / volume

例子：If price spikes continue, people will not be able to afford the new houses they want.

 

There has been a stark increase of student suicides.

 

stark 赤裸的；簡單的；明顯的；（尤指）粗陋的；極端的
(adjective 形容詞) 

► in stark contrast 鮮明的對比

= very different and obvious

 

例子：In the suburbs the spacious houses stand in stark contrast to the slums of the city's poor. 
郊區寬敞的大房子和城裡的貧民窟形成了鮮明的對比。

   
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