“极限捏手机”你敢玩吗？

 　　Move over extreme sports, ‘extreme phone pinching’ is guaranteed to deliver an adrenaline rush like never before. Warning: It’s not for the faint-hearted.

　　极限运动靠边站，现在是“极限捏手机”时代。据说这种活动会令人体肾上腺素分泌暴增，刺激性可以说前所未有。警告：胆小者慎玩。

　　The nerve-wracking new challenge has people dangling¹ their expensive smartphones over all sorts of dangerous places like toilets, drains, balconies and even high cliffs. There’s only one rule – they’ve got to ‘pinch’ their gadgets² using only their thumb and forefinger³!

　　这项超刺激的新挑战要求参与者将昂贵的智能手机悬在各种危险的地方，比如马桶、下水道、阳台边，甚至高高的悬崖上。只有一个规则：挑战者必须仅用拇指和食指“捏”着手机！

　　The bizarre, rather pointless trend was apparently⁴ started by Twenty One Pilots, an American indie pop band. They posted a YouTube video of them performing the phone pinch stunt⁵ and it spread like wildfire across various social networks, garnering⁶ over 300,000 views. Before long, the hashtag #extremephonepinching became a thing and people began tweeting videos and pictures of their own attempts.

　　这项荒诞、没内涵的活动是美国独立流行乐队“二十一号飞行员”发起的。该乐队将一个表演捏手机的视频上传到YouTube后，该视频很快风靡各种社交网站，目前点击量已超30万次。没过多久，“极限捏手机”就成了热门标签，推特（Tweet）上的网友纷纷开始晒自己捏手机的视频和照片。

　　极限捏手机

　　Some of the gifs and videos show people holding their phones over gaps in drains, while others dangle⁷ them over balconies several stories high. A few have held them over cliffs, rivers, famous bridges, and even Niagara Falls. One girl tried the challenge when she was in a hot air balloon. “Almost #extremephonepinching on a hot air balloon but my mom yelled at me,” she tweeted.

　　有些图片和视频中的人拿着手机悬在下水道口上，也有人站在数层高楼的阳台上挑战。还有人拿着手机在悬崖、河流、名桥，甚至尼亚加拉瀑布边进行挑战。有个女孩在热气球中进行了挑战。“在热气球上挑战#极限捏手机，但被妈妈凶了一顿，”她在推特上写道。

　　The trend seems pretty harmless because it seems that the forefinger and thumb do a pretty good job of holding gripping a phone. But there have been a few accidents, like with Twitter user @samtolliver1 who posted pics of his broken phone with the caption⁸ “when extreme phone pinching goes wrong.” And one person was dumb enough to hold their phone over a toilet using a long pair of tongs⁹. Needless to say, it fell right in!

　　这一潮流看似无伤大雅，因为用食指和拇指捏手机看上去没什么难度。但也有一些事故出现，比如，推特用户@ samtolliver1就晒了数张手机摔坏的图片，还配了文字说明：“极限捏手机失败。”还有傻瓜用钳子捏手机悬在厕所上。不用说，手机当然掉进去了！

　　Vocabulary

　　adrenaline: 肾上腺素

　　faint-hearted: 怯懦的；胆怯的

　　tongs: 钳子

1 dangling   

悬吊着( dangle的现在分词 )； 摆动不定； 用某事物诱惑…； 吊胃口

参考例句：

• The tooth hung dangling by the bedpost, now. 结果，那颗牙就晃来晃去吊在床柱上了。
• The children sat on the high wall,their legs dangling. 孩子们坐在一堵高墙上，摇晃着他们的双腿。

2 gadgets   

n.小机械，小器具（ gadget的名词复数 ）

参考例句：

• Certainly. The idea is not to have a house full of gadgets. 当然。设想是房屋不再充满小配件。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
• This meant more gadgets and more experiments. 这意味着要设计出更多的装置，做更多的实验。 来自英汉非文学 - 科学史

3 forefinger   

n.食指

参考例句：

• He pinched the leaf between his thumb and forefinger.他将叶子捏在拇指和食指之间。
• He held it between the tips of his thumb and forefinger.他用他大拇指和食指尖拿着它。

4 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

5 stunt   

n.惊人表演，绝技，特技；vt.阻碍...发育，妨碍...生长

参考例句：

• Lack of the right food may stunt growth.缺乏适当的食物会阻碍发育。
• Right up there is where the big stunt is taking place.那边将会有惊人的表演。

6 garnering   

v.收集并（通常）贮藏（某物），取得，获得( garner的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• And at the forefront was Bryant, garnering nothing but praise from his coaches and teammates. 而站在最前沿的就是科比，他也因此获得了教练和队友的赞美。 来自互联网

7 dangle   

v.(使)悬荡，(使)悬垂

参考例句：

• At Christmas,we dangle colored lights around the room.圣诞节时，我们在房间里挂上彩灯。
• He sits on the edge of the table and dangles his legs.他坐在桌子边上，摆动著双腿。

8 caption   

n.说明，字幕，标题；v.加上标题，加上说明

参考例句：

• I didn't understand the drawing until I read the caption.直到我看到这幅画的说明才弄懂其意思。
• There is a caption under the picture.图片下边附有说明。

9 tongs   

n.钳；夹子

参考例句：

• She used tongs to put some more coal on the fire.她用火钳再夹一些煤放进炉子里。
• He picked up the hot metal with a pair of tongs.他用一把钳子夹起这块热金属。