CRI听力:Poor Eyesight of Children

短语讲解：

1. The district's Eye Disease Prevention and Treatment Center says the children are highly likely to develop myopic problems, as they grow older, including shortsightedness and astigmatism.

be likely to可能; 倾向于; 很可能
例句：John is likely to be in London this autumn.
今年秋天约翰可能在伦敦。

2. "My child is obsessed with software such as storytelling and children's songs as well as games like Angry Birds."

be obsessed with 沉迷于
例句：David was obsessed with a girl he had just met.
戴维被一个他刚刚认识的女孩迷住了。

3. Yangpu District's Eye Disease Prevention and Treatment Center says this figure is alarmingly high, as it's more common for such children to be farsighted until the age of 12 rather than shortsighted.

rather than而不是
例句：They thus increased their annual grain production rather than diminished it.
他们这样增加了而不是减少了粮食年产量。

4. Therefore, it's crucial that measures be taken to prevent such youngsters from developing poor vision.

take measures采取措施
例句：We should take appropriate measures to improve our teaching.
我们应当采取适当的措施提高教学质量。
prevent from阻止, 防止
例句：Cotton mittens will prevent the baby from scratching his own face.
棉的连指手套使婴儿不会抓伤自己的脸。

5. The object environment refers to the situations where children nowadays start to access iPad, game players and computers at early ages, or they start to learn piano and read musical notation at an early age.

refer to有关, 针对
例句：The new law does not refer to land used for farming.
那条新法律并不涉及耕种用地。

6. Experts suggest that parents get their children more involved in outdoor activities to prevent them from developing vision problems caused by excessive computer or electronic-gadget usage

involve in使参与〔陷入, 牵扯到〕
例句：She was involved in working out a puzzle.
她在聚精会神地解一道难题。