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Just As the proliferation of fast food produced the " slow food" movement in the 1980s, and the spread of reality television ins

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问题     Just As the proliferation of fast food produced the " slow food" movement in the 1980s, and the spread of reality television inspired "slow TV" in the early 2000s, the constant buzzing of smartphones with notifications, messages, tweets and posts will, in 2019, give rise to "slow social". It has started already. 【T1】Where once social networks did everything possible to make their services "frictionless" , making it easy to share or forward posts and messages, they have begun, gingerly, to apply the brakes.
    【T2】In July WhatsApp put a limit on the number of people or groups to whom a single message can be forwarded in one go. Instagram, a photo-sharing app, introduced a " You’re all caught up" feature, which reminds users that they have "seen all new posts from the past two days" and should really go and do something else. Facebook launched a feature that allows people to check how much time they are wasting on the social network, and to snooze notifications for a period. 【T3】And in September Twitter announced that it would allow its users to go back to its older timeline, in which tweets are visible in simple reverse chronological order, rather than organized by an algorithm to maximise the time spent using the service.
    If these changes work, and as others follow, social networks will find that their holy metric of "engagement"—how much time people spend on their services—may decline. 【T4】But slowing things down, even if it also means slowing their own growth, is a good way to keep users happy in the longer term and avoid blame for viral misinformation and hate speech.
    Twitter’s algorithmic timeline helped things go viral more easily. So did WhatsApp’s easy-forwarding features. Erecting barriers to virality is perhaps the fairest way for social networks to deal with the problem of misinformation without having to become arbiters of truth. 【T5】Facebook, which owns Instagram and Whats App, says it wants the time people spend on its networks to be " intentional, positive and inspiring". That is an acknowledgment that constant screen time is having a detrimental effect on users. Facebook would rather its users moderated their intake of polarising opinions and holiday snaps than burn out and quit.
    The new time-counting features are akin to road signs and rest stops on the information superhighway. Expect to see more signs, and speed bumps, in 2019.
    You have bought a new camera, but when you got it home you found it had some problems. You returned the camera and spoke to the company representative a week ago, but the camera has still not been repaired. Write a letter of complaints to the company to explain the situation and say what action you would like the company to take.
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答案此前，社交网络竭尽所能力求服务更“顺畅”，让发表文字和分享信息或转载不费吹灰之力，然而社交网络已经开始小心翼翼地放慢了服务步伐。
解析 本句为复合句。句子主干为they have begun，gingerly，to apply the brakes。Where引导的为让步状语从句，其主干为social networks did everything possible to make their services “frictionless”，其中，making引导的为伴随状语。本句翻译时，可注意增添试用四字格，例如“竭尽所能、不费吹灰之力、小心翼翼……”增加译文的美感和可读性。
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