Questões de Inglês

A palavra “cringe” viralizou nas redes sociais no Brasil em 2021. Observe sua definição, em português, apontada pelo “Dicionário Informal” on-line:

 

Vergonha alheia;

 

Exemplo de uso da palavra cringe:
A cena que presenciamos ontem foi muito cringe.
É cada situação cringe que presenciamos.
Não consigo nem ver, de tão cringe.

 

Veja, agora, a definição da mesma palavra pelo “Cambridge Dictionary”, também em versão on-line:

 

to suddenly move away from someone or
something because you are frightened

 

to feel very embarrassed:

    • I cringed at the sight of my dad dancing.

(Disponível em: https://www.dicionarioinformal.com.br/diferenca-entre/crin ge/inglês/; https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/cringe. Acessado em 05/07/2021.)

 

Com base nessas duas definições, pode-se dizer que, em português, a palavra “cringe”

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Social media vs. mental health

    Research has revealed that younger and older users alike are in danger of breaking under the pressure of unachievable standards of beauty and success, which are often inherent in the workings of social networking websites.

    Among young adult users, social media notably increases the incidence of anxiety and depression. According to the results of a sizeable study conducted in 2016, users who frequently checked their accounts had a more than twice as high a risk of depression than their less social media-oriented peers. This may partly be due to the fact that social networks create an artificial need to be available 24/7, to respond to messages and emoji reactions instantly. Despite the fact that such platforms are supposed to enhance our sense of connectedness with other people, research has found that they actually have the opposite effect: they render dedicated users lonelier and more isolated.

    However, this shouldn't really surprise us. The hyperconnectedness takes place at a superficial level, eliminating all of the extra elements that make communication more valuable and psychologically constructive. Such elements include eye contact, body language, the possibility of listening for changes in our interlocutor's tone of voice, or the possibility of physical touch.

(Excerpt taken from: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321498#1.-Social-media-can-affect-mental-health)

 

Glossary

Alike: indistintamente

Unachievable: impossível

Enhance: aumentar

Render: tornar

According to the results of a study conducted in 2016,

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Social media vs. mental health

    Research has revealed that younger and older users alike are in danger of breaking under the pressure of unachievable standards of beauty and success, which are often inherent in the workings of social networking websites.

    Among young adult users, social media notably increases the incidence of anxiety and depression. According to the results of a sizeable study conducted in 2016, users who frequently checked their accounts had a more than twice as high a risk of depression than their less social media-oriented peers. This may partly be due to the fact that social networks create an artificial need to be available 24/7, to respond to messages and emoji reactions instantly. Despite the fact that such platforms are supposed to enhance our sense of connectedness with other people, research has found that they actually have the opposite effect: they render dedicated users lonelier and more isolated.

    However, this shouldn't really surprise us. The hyperconnectedness takes place at a superficial level, eliminating all of the extra elements that make communication more valuable and psychologically constructive. Such elements include eye contact, body language, the possibility of listening for changes in our interlocutor's tone of voice, or the possibility of physical touch.

(Excerpt taken from: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321498#1.-Social-media-can-affect-mental-health)

 

Glossary

Alike: indistintamente

Unachievable: impossível

Enhance: aumentar

Render: tornar

Among young adult users, social media

READ THE TEXT BELOW, THEN ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.

 

Social media vs. mental health

    Research has revealed that younger and older users alike are in danger of breaking under the pressure of unachievable standards of beauty and success, which are often inherent in the workings of social networking websites.

    Among young adult users, social media notably increases the incidence of anxiety and depression. According to the results of a sizeable study conducted in 2016, users who frequently checked their accounts had a more than twice as high a risk of depression than their less social media-oriented peers. This may partly be due to the fact that social networks create an artificial need to be available 24/7, to respond to messages and emoji reactions instantly. Despite the fact that such platforms are supposed to enhance our sense of connectedness with other people, research has found that they actually have the opposite effect: they render dedicated users lonelier and more isolated.

    However, this shouldn't really surprise us. The hyperconnectedness takes place at a superficial level, eliminating all of the extra elements that make communication more valuable and psychologically constructive. Such elements include eye contact, body language, the possibility of listening for changes in our interlocutor's tone of voice, or the possibility of physical touch.

(Excerpt taken from: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321498#1.-Social-media-can-affect-mental-health)

 

Glossary

Alike: indistintamente

Unachievable: impossível

Enhance: aumentar

Render: tornar

According to a research, younger and older users

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    It’s probable you’ve already replied to a couple of emails today, sent some chat messages and maybe performed a quick internet search. As the day wears on you will doubtless spend even more time browsing online, uploading images, playing music and streaming video.

    Each of these activities you perform online comes with a small cost — a few grams of carbon dioxide are emitted due to the energy needed to run your devices and power the wireless networks you access. Less obvious, but perhaps even more energy intensive, are the data centres and vast servers needed to support the internet and store the content we access over it.

    Although the energy needed for a single internet search or email is small, approximately 4.1 billion people, or 53.6% of the global population, now use the internet. Those scraps of energy, and the associated greenhouse gases emitted with each online activity, can add up.

    If we were to rather crudely divide the 1.7 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions estimated to be produced in the manufacture and running of digital technologies between all internet users around the world, it means each of us is responsible for 400 g of carbon dioxide a year.

    But things are not that simple — this figure can vary depending where in the world you are. Internet users in some parts of the globe will have a disproportionately large footprint. One study estimated that 10 years ago, the average Australian internet user was responsible for the equivalent of 81 kg of carbon dioxide being emitted into the atmosphere. Improvements in energy efficiency, economies of scale and use of renewable energy will doubtless have reduced this, but it is clear that people in developed nations still account for the majority of the internet’s carbon footprint.

(Sarah Griffiths. www.bbc.com, 05.03.2020. Adaptado.)

The excerpt from the first paragraph “As the day wears on” has the same meaning as: