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Battling Internet Addiction

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ID: 1021 Upper Intermediate
Some addictions are better than others. Internet addiction, for example, is bad. Bad, unless of course, the addiction revolves around being on the internet compulsively reloading chinesepod.com every five minutes. Replaying each link of each podcast until slumped over in a heap. Pinning up pictures of the most active users on your wall. This good. Other addictions bad. Learn more in this podcast, in Chinese. 500 times.
Thu Oct 30 2008 | Jenny, John
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
省心 shěngxīn to rest easy
窝 wō to hole up
一塌糊涂 yītāhútu a complete mess
上瘾 shàngyǐn addicted
不行，我明年要去北京陪儿子。
bùxíng ，wǒ míngnián yào qù Běijīng péi érzi 。
This just won't do. Next year, I'm moving to Beijing with our son.
算了吧，他都大二了，你就省省心吧。别管得太严了。
suàn le ba ，tā dōu dà èr le ，nǐ jiù shěngsheng xīn ba 。bié guǎn de tài yán le 。
Oh come on, he's already a college sophomore. Just take it easy. Don't keep him on too short a leash.
我不去看住他，能行吗？你看你那宝贝儿子都成什么样子了，天天窝在宿舍打游戏，根本没心思学习，成绩肯定一塌糊涂。
wǒ bù qù kān zhù tā ，néng xíng ma ？nǐ kàn nǐ nà bǎobèi érzi dōu chéng shénme yàngzi le ，tiāntiān wō zài sùshè dǎ yóuxì ，gēnběn méi xīnsi xuéxí ，chéngjì kěndìng yītāhútu 。
What will happen if I don't keep an eye on him? Look what your precious baby has become, holed up in his dorm room all the time playing video games. He doesn't care at all about studying. I'm sure his grades are atrocious.
还没到这个程度吧。
hái méi dào zhè ge chéngdù ba 。
Things probably aren't that bad yet.
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