介绍:
I need to escape from the planet of the apps
啊！APP们，请远离我！
Bella Mackie
贝拉·麻吉
我的手机经常在响。无论我是在开会、还是躺在床上、或是正在遛狗，手机只要一闪，就吸引了我的注意力。就在我写上面这句话的时候，我的手机又闪了一下。不过一般来说，手机也妨碍不了想来看我的朋友、要向我示爱求婚的人（好吧，还没有过）、或者是工作邮件。这些手机消息都不是某个人发给我的——越来越多的消息都由应用程序发出。
My phone buzzes a lot. It lights up and grabs my attention during meetings, when I’m falling asleep and when I’m walking the dog. It just flashed while I was writing that sentence. But normally, it’s not interrupting my day with friends wanting to see me, or with declarations of love from a suitor (OK, never), or even with work emails. These alerts are not even from a person – they are increasingly from apps.
第一次拿到智能手机的时候，我还没有意识到它可能多有用。我使用了一些基本程序，例如邮件，登陆一些社交账号，玩玩老式诺基亚“贪食蛇”游戏以打发旅途中的百无聊赖。我有够迟钝，花了好长时间才意识到：如果将这些应用程序利用起来，我的生活会更轻松、更有条理。于是我开始玩应用，它记录了我所有外出的时间，我可喜欢这应用了。
When I first got a smartphone, I didn’t realise how useful these could be. I had the basics – email, some social media accounts and a version of the old Nokia game Snake for boring bus journeys. It took me a stupidly long time to realise that my life could be easier and more organised if I utilised some of these apps. So I got a running one, and it timed all my outings and I liked that.
我又装了一个应用，它告诉我公交车到站时间，这是我下晚班的福音。我下载了不计其数的播客节目（目前全是关于美国总统竞选的），过量浏览Reddit网页。最近，我正在练习举重。你猜怎么的？我根本找不到能帮助我练举重的应用。
I got an app that told me when buses were coming, and that was just great for when I left the office at night. I downloaded a zillion podcasts (currently all about the US presidential election), and browsed Reddit far too much. Recently, I’ve been lifting weights, and guess what? There’s an app for that.
我想要熟练掌握意大利语，这样我在点咖啡的时候就不用做什么傻里吧唧的手势、被人嘲笑了，于是我下载了一个语言指南应用。从此，应用程序之门一直为我敞开，我安装了eBay、Spotify、Uber、约会软件、甚至（我并不引以为豪的）bitmoji 。
I want to speak proficient enough Italian so that I can ask for a coffee to take away without gesturing to the road and being laughed at, so I got a language guide. From there, it was an open door: eBay, Spotify, Uber, dating apps and even (and I am not proud of this) Bitmoji.
