澳洲社交媒体禁令正式生效

近日，澳大利亚针对16岁以下人群的社交媒体禁令正式生效，澳大利亚由此成为全球首个通过立法实施此类禁令的国家。

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🤔️小作业：

1. What is the primary function of Zoey Bender's personal story in the article?

A. To demonstrate how social media guarantees financial success for teenagers

B. To illustrate the potential unintended consequences of the new legislation

C. To argue that TikTok should be exempt from Australia's social-media ban

D. To provide statistical evidence supporting teen opposition to the policy

无注释原文：

Social-Media Ban Imposes Brave New World on Australian Teens

From: The Wall Street Journal

Australian teen Zoey Bender started posting “get ready with me” videos on TikTok a year ago as a creative outlet during a difficult time, and ended up amassing nearly 60,000 followers.

Zoey, now 14, said she found friendships and prospective business contacts as her following grew, connecting her with hair salons and makeup artists who she thinks could help support her dreams of a career in the beauty industry.

But as of Wednesday, TikTok is required to shut down the accounts of teens Zoey's age, under a new law intended to shelter children from the mental-health risks of life online. The app is one of 10 popular social-media platforms that must prevent anyone in Australia under 16 years old from holding an account.

Australians are divided over whether the law, which passed a year ago with broad political support, will make anyone safer and is even enforceable. Young Australians certainly have something to say about it. 

“I don't think that they considered us,” said Zoey. Teens today have grown up with social media and know its harms, she said. “But they didn't ask us how we felt or what we needed or what could help us.”

Zoey's mother, BJ Newton, an associate professor of social work and social policy, described the ban as devastating. “This is an entire world and society as these young people know it, ending.” 

The age cutoff of 16 is roughly in line with when Australian teenagers can drive and apply to join the military. They can legally drink when they turn 18.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he is under no illusions that teenage social-media use will be curbed overnight. 

“This won't be perfect,” he said Sunday. “Just like, chances are, last night…somewhere in Australia, someone under 18 got a drink in a pub.”

But Albanese said the government expects compliance. “This is the law,” he said.

The banned platforms are among the most heavily used by Australian teens: Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, Twitch, X and YouTube. They all meet a set of criteria, including that they allow users to post content, according to Australia's online regulator, the eSafety Commissioner. Some smaller services such as Bluesky have self-assessed and will ban under-16s, too.

The companies are now required to take reasonable steps to enforce the new rules, under threat of penalty. Parents and children won't be fined.

YouTube Kids, WhatsApp and Messenger are among platforms that won't be restricted, though that could change if their services evolve, the regulator said.

Tech companies said they would comply with the ban, and some began deactivating accounts before the law came into effect. Several said they had begun notifying users believed to be under 16 that they would need to verify their age with identification or by providing a selfie for facial analysis.

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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为华尔街日报官方译文，仅供参考

含注释全文：

Social-Media Ban Imposes Brave New World on Australian Teens

From: The Wall Street Journal

Australian teen Zoey Bender started posting “get ready with me” videos on TikTok a year ago as a creative outlet during a difficult time, and ended up amassing nearly 60,000 followers.

澳大利亚青少年佐伊·本德(Zoey Bender)一年前开始在TikTok上发布“跟我一起准备”(get ready with me)的视频，以此作为度过困难时期的创意宣泄渠道，最终积累了近60,000名粉丝。

outlet /ˈaʊt.let/ 或者outlets一词经常出现，media outlet / news outlets 都可以表示媒体/新闻机构；outlet本身表示“商店，商行；销售公司；专卖店；直销店”，英文解释为“An outlet is a shop or organization which sells the goods made by a particular manufacturer or at a discount price, often direct from the manufacturer.”如：a fast-food outlet 快餐店，a retail outlet 零售店，举个🌰：At the factory outlet you'll find discounted items at up to 75% off regular prices. 在工厂的直销店里，你会找到比常规价低75%的打折商品。

📍而我们日常生活中常见的“奥特莱斯”商场就是outlets的音译，指的就是品牌直销购物中心。

此外，也可以指“（情绪或精力的）发泄方式，发泄途径，施展的机会”，英文解释为“a way in which emotion or energy can be expressed or made use of”举个🌰：Her work provided no outlet for her energies and talents. 她的工作没有给她提供发泄精力及施展才华的机会。

📍美式英语里还可以表示“电源插座（同 power point）”

amass /əˈmæs/ 表示“集聚，积累，大量收集（尤指钱或信息）”，英文解释为“to get a large amount of something, especially money or information, by collecting it over a long period”举个🌰：She has amassed a huge fortune from her novels. 她靠写小说慢慢积攒了一大笔钱。

近义词：

📍accumulate：to gradually get more and more of sth over a period of time 积累；积聚；

📍rack up表示“大量获得（利润）；严重遭受（损失）；（体育中）多次赢得（比赛）”（If a business racks up profits, losses, or sales, it makes a lot of them. If a sportsman, sportswoman, or team racks up wins, they win a lot of games or races.）

Zoey, now 14, said she found friendships and prospective business contacts as her following grew, connecting her with hair salons and makeup artists who she thinks could help support her dreams of a career in the beauty industry.

现年14岁的佐伊说，随着粉丝数量的增长，她不仅收获了友谊，还建立了潜在的商业人脉。她结识了许多美发沙龙和化妆师，并认为这些人能助她实现进入美妆行业的职业梦想。

prospective /prəˈspek.tɪv/ 表示“有望的；可能的；预期的；潜在的；即将发生的；行将来临的”，英文解释为“expected to do sth or to become sth；expected to happen soon”如：prospective buyers, employers, parents, etc. 潜在的客户/可能成为雇主的人/即将为人父母者等。

make-up/makeup 表示“化妆；化妆品”，英文解释为“coloured substances used on your face to improve or change your appearance”举个🌰：I put on a little eye make-up. 我在眼部上了淡妆。

But as of Wednesday, TikTok is required to shut down the accounts of teens Zoey's age, under a new law intended to shelter children from the mental-health risks of life online. The app is one of 10 popular social-media platforms that must prevent anyone in Australia under 16 years old from holding an account.

但根据一项旨在保护儿童免受网络生活心理健康风险的新法律，TikTok从周三起不得不关闭像佐伊这个年龄段的青少年的账号。这款应用是10个必须禁止任何未满16岁的澳大利亚人持有账号的热门社交媒体平台之一。

shelter /ˈʃel.tər/ 表示“掩蔽（处）；遮蔽（处）”，英文解释为“(a building designed to give) protection from bad weather, danger, or attack”如：an air-raid shelter 防空洞。

作动词，1）表示“躲避；保护；遮蔽”，英文解释为“to protect yourself, or another person or thing, from bad weather, danger, or attack”举个🌰：We were caught in a thunderstorm, without anywhere to shelter. 我们遇上了雷暴雨，没有避雨的地方。

2）表示“为…提供避难的地方”，英文解释为“to give someone a secret hiding place so that they will not be caught by the army, police, etc.”举个🌰：Local people risked their own lives to shelter resistance fighters from the army. 当地的人们冒着生命危险，为抵抗组织的战士提供避难所，使其免遭军队逮捕。

Australians are divided over whether the law, which passed a year ago with broad political support, will make anyone safer and is even enforceable. Young Australians certainly have something to say about it. 

这项法律于一年前在广泛的政治支持下获得通过，但对于该法能否真正保障安全以及是否具备可执行性，澳大利亚民众看法不一。澳大利亚的年轻人显然对此有话要说。

“I don't think that they considered us,” said Zoey. Teens today have grown up with social media and know its harms, she said. “But they didn't ask us how we felt or what we needed or what could help us.”

“我认为他们没有考虑过我们，”佐伊说。她说，如今的青少年是在社交媒体的陪伴下长大的，也清楚其中的危害。“但他们没有问我们的感受，我们需要什么，或者什么能帮助我们。”

Zoey's mother, BJ Newton, an associate professor of social work and social policy, described the ban as devastating. “This is an entire world and society as these young people know it, ending.” 

佐伊的母亲BJ·牛顿(BJ Newton)是一名社会工作与社会政策副教授，她形容这项禁令是“毁灭性的”。她说：“这是这些年轻人所认知的整个世界和社会的终结。”

devastating /ˈdev.ə.steɪ.tɪŋ/ 1）表示“破坏性极强的”，英文解释为“If you describe something as devastating, you are emphasizing that it is very harmful or damaging.”

2）表示“令人震惊的”，英文解释为“You can use devastating to emphasize that something is very shocking, upsetting, or terrible.”举个🌰：The diagnosis was devastating. She had cancer. 诊断结果令人震惊。她得了癌症。

The age cutoff of 16 is roughly in line with when Australian teenagers can drive and apply to join the military. They can legally drink when they turn 18.

16岁的年龄限制与澳大利亚青少年可以开车和申请参军的年龄大致相当。他们年满18岁才能合法饮酒。

cutoff /ˈkʌt.ɒf/ 1）表示“取舍点；截止点”，英文解释为“a fixed point or level at which you stop including people or things”举个🌰：31 March is the cutoff date for applications to be accepted. 3月31日是接受申请的截止日期。

2）表示“切断供应；中断供应”，英文解释为“the act of stopping the supply of something”举个🌰：The US has announced a cutoff of military aid to the country. 美国宣布停止对该国的军事援助。

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he is under no illusions that teenage social-media use will be curbed overnight. 

澳大利亚总理阿尔巴尼斯(Anthony Albanese)表示，他并不幻想青少年使用社交媒体的情况会在一夜之间得到遏制。

illusion /ɪˈluː.ʒən/ 表示“错误的观念；幻想；假象，错觉”，英文解释为“a false idea or belief, especially about sb or about a situation”举个🌰：I have no illusions about her feelings for me. 我对她跟我的感情不抱什么幻想。

可以作动词，也可以作名词，表示“控制，抑制，限定，约束（不好的事物）”，英文解释为“to control or limit sth, especially sth bad”举个🌰：A range of policies have been introduced aimed at curbing inflation. 为了抑制通货膨胀实施了一系列的政策。（名词）He called for much stricter curbs on immigration. 他呼吁对移民实行更为严格的限制。

“This won't be perfect,” he said Sunday. “Just like, chances are, last night…somewhere in Australia, someone under 18 got a drink in a pub.”

“这不会是完美的，”他周日表示。“就像，有可能，昨晚……在澳大利亚的某个地方，某个18岁以下的人在酒吧喝到了酒。”

But Albanese said the government expects compliance. “This is the law,” he said.

但阿尔巴尼斯表示，政府期望各方遵守规定。他说：“这就是法律。”

compliance /kəmˈplaɪ.əns/ 1）表示“服从；遵守；依从”，英文解释为“the act of obeying a law or rule, especially one that controls a particular industry or type of work”举个🌰：It is the job of the inspectors to enforce compliance with the regulations. 强制人们遵守法规是督察的责任。

2）表示“顺从，屈从”，英文解释为“the act of doing everything that someone tells or wants you to do”举个🌰：It's his compliance that amazes me. 让我吃惊的是他言听计从。

compliance（合规）：指的是“符合规定、规则或标准”。在学术领域，这包括符合大学关于论文格式、引用规范、学术诚信、写作标准等一系列具体的学位论文要求；Flaw（缺陷）：指的是“缺点、瑕疵、不完美之处”。因此，compliance flaw合起来就是指论文存在的未能完全符合学术规范和要求的地方。

The banned platforms are among the most heavily used by Australian teens: Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, Twitch, X and YouTube. They all meet a set of criteria, including that they allow users to post content, according to Australia's online regulator, the eSafety Commissioner. Some smaller services such as Bluesky have self-assessed and will ban under-16s, too.

被禁的平台包括澳大利亚青少年使用最频繁的一些应用：Facebook、Instagram、Kick、Reddit、Snapchat、Threads、TikTok、Twitch、X和YouTube。据澳大利亚网络监管机构eSafety Commissioner称，这些平台都符合包括允许用户发布内容在内的一系列标准。Bluesky等规模较小的服务平台也进行了自我评估，并将同样禁止16岁以下用户使用。

criterion /kraɪˈtɪərɪən/ 表示“（判断的）标准，准则，原则”，复数形式为criteria，英文解释为“A criterion is a factor on which you judge or decide something.”举个🌰：The most important criterion for entry is that applicants must design and make their own work. 参加的最重要标准就是申请人必须设计并制作自己的作品。

The companies are now required to take reasonable steps to enforce the new rules, under threat of penalty. Parents and children won't be fined.

这些公司现在被要求采取合理措施来执行新规，否则将面临处罚。家长和儿童不会被罚款。

YouTube Kids, WhatsApp and Messenger are among platforms that won't be restricted, though that could change if their services evolve, the regulator said.

该监管机构表示，YouTube Kids、WhatsApp和Messenger等平台目前不在限制之列，但如果其服务性质发生变化，情况可能会有所改变。

evolve /ɪˈvɒlv/ 表示“（使）逐渐形成，逐步发展，逐渐演变，进化”，英文解释为“to develop gradually, especially from a simple to a more complicated form; to develop sth in this way”举个🌰：The company has evolved into a major chemical manufacturer. 这家公司已逐步发展成一个主要的化工厂。

Tech companies said they would comply with the ban, and some began deactivating accounts before the law came into effect. Several said they had begun notifying users believed to be under 16 that they would need to verify their age with identification or by providing a selfie for facial analysis.

科技公司表示将遵守该禁令，一些公司甚至在这项法律生效前就已开始停用相关账号。有几家公司表示，它们此前已开始通知被认为未满16岁的用户，要求他们通过身份证明或提供自拍照进行面部分析来验证年龄。

表示“服从；遵守；依从”，英文解释为“to act according to an order, set of rules, or request”举个🌰：There are serious penalties for failure to comply with the regulations. 不遵守规定者将受到严惩。

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