VOA常速英语:Study: Fast-paced TV Cartoons Reduce Kids' Learning

短语讲解：

1. Young children have difficulty learning immediately after watching fast-paced television cartoons full of images and activities that are not possible in real life, according to a new study.

full of充满
例句：Mary's heart was full of distress.
玛丽的心里充满痛苦。

2. University of Virginia researchers wanted to find out whether watching "SpongeBob" affected kids' ability to learn immediately after seeing the show.

find out发现, 看穿, 揭发, 找出;查明
例句：I'll find out about planes to New York.
我去打听一下飞纽约的班机。

3. A third group of children spent time drawing instead of watching television.

instead of (用…)代替…, (是…)而不是…, (用…)而不用…
例句：We went to the Biology class instead of attending the English lesson.
我们去上生物课而不去上英语课。

4. Lillard cautions that her study looked only at how young children learned immediately after watching the TV shows, so she cannot say whether watching these kinds of programs have a permanent effect on learning.

have an effect on对…有影响;对…起作用,产生效果
例句：This had a great effect on the future of both mother and son.
这对母子俩的将来影响很大。

5. But I would say that parents might want to think about when children watch such shows and perhaps how frequently they watch them as well because they are certainly compromised immediately afterwards.

think about回想起, 记起
例句：She was thinking about her childhood days.
她在回忆自己的童年时代。