趣味青春英语电台 第286期:Reduce to ashes

 Idiom:

Reduce to ashes ( destroy )

Hit the book:

Staggering

Amnesia¹

Log into

Social page

Surrogate

Pathetic

Golden retriever

Conflict

On average we check our phones a staggering 1500 times per week according to a UK study by Tecmark.

We also spend three hours staring at our screens and perform 221 tasks on them each day. It's a wonder we have any time to eat and sleep!

1 amnesia   

n.健忘症，健忘

参考例句：

• People suffering from amnesia don't forget their general knowledge of objects.患健忘症的人不会忘记关于物体的一些基本知识。
• Chinese medicine experts developed a way to treat amnesia using marine materials.中国医学专家研制出用海洋物质治疗遗忘症的方法。