智能手機(jī)讓我們跟網(wǎng)絡(luò)的距離更近了，我們甚至可以每時每刻都在線，有那么多即時通訊方式，我們想要找誰，也總能找到。這樣的狀況看似很便捷，可回頭想想，我們的生活是不是有點(diǎn)“過度連接”呢？

Over-connectedness refers to the state or condition of having an over-abundance of existing or potential technologically mediated connections to other people and to online resources.

過度連接（over-connectedness）指生活中現(xiàn)有的或潛在可用的、跟別人或網(wǎng)絡(luò)資源連接的技術(shù)設(shè)備過分充足的狀態(tài)。

Over-connectedness is the social disease of the new millennium. It is the anxiety that is going to be produced when telecommunications combines with the “Evernet” — the technology that allows people to get online from their watches, their cars, their toasters or their pens — so that everyone will be able to be connected all the time, everywhere.

過度連接是新千年的社會病，是通訊方式與“永聯(lián)網(wǎng)”結(jié)合后會導(dǎo)致的一種焦慮狀態(tài)。新的技術(shù)讓人們可以通過手表、汽車、面包機(jī)或者筆連接到網(wǎng)絡(luò)，這樣人們就可以隨時隨地聯(lián)絡(luò)到彼此。

（中國日報網(wǎng)英語點(diǎn)津 Helen）