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Teens and peer pressure
青少年與同齡人壓力
"Come on, everyone's doing it, so why shouldn't you?"
“來吧，每個人都在做，你為什么不能做呢？”
Peer pressure is one thing that many teens have in common. You can't escape it. It is everywhere. No matter how popular you are, how well liked you may be, or how together you feel, sooner or later you will have to face peer pressure.
同齡人壓力是許多青少年都要面臨的事情。你無法逃脫，它無處不在。無論你多么受人歡迎，多么惹人喜愛，或者你覺得自己多么自信，你遲早都會面臨同齡人壓力。
Whether it is pressure to conform to a group norm or pressure to act a certain way, peer pressure is something everybody has to deal with at some time in their life. How successfully you handle peer pressure depends a great deal on how you feel about yourself and your place in the world. Everyone at school is wearing silly hats so you do, too, and your best friend begs you to go running with her because you both need more exercise, so you go, too. These are all examples of peer pressure. Don't get it yet?
不管是順從群體規(guī)范的壓力，還是遵循某種行為方式的壓力，同齡人壓力是每個人在生活的某些時刻必須處理的事情。處理得成功與否在很大程度上取決于你的自我感覺以及你對自己在這個世界所處位置的理解。學(xué)校里的每個人都戴著愚蠢的帽子，所以你也這樣做；你最好的朋友求你去和她一起跑步，因位你們倆都需要鍛煉，所以你去了。這些都是同齡人壓力，你明白了嗎？
Peer pressure is the feeling that someone your own age is pushing you toward making a certain choice, good or bad. So, what's so difficult about shunning peer pressure?
同齡人壓力是你感到同齡人在促使你作出某種選擇——這種選擇可能是好的，也可能是壞的。那么，回避同齡人壓力有什么困難呢？
People want to be accepted and liked by people their own age. At some point, everyone has the desire to fit into a group. If you are interested in sports, you might hang out with "jocks." If you're interested in music, you spend time with others who enjoy music. You belong to that group, and feel secure when you're part of it. The group identifies who you are and what you're about. It's natural for people to identify with and compare themselves to their peers as they consider how they wish to be or what they want to achieve. People are influenced by peers because they want to blend in, be like peers they admire, do what others are doing, or have what others have.
人們都想讓同齡人接受自己，喜愛自己。在某種程度上，每個人都渴望融入一個群體。如果你對體育運動感興趣，你可能會和“成天運動的笨家伙”一起閑逛。如果你對音樂感興趣，你可能會和其他喜歡音樂的人待在一起。你屬于這個群體，當(dāng)你成為他們中的一員時，你會有安全感。這個群體認識你，也知道你會做什么。人們在思考自己希望成為什么樣的人或想要實現(xiàn)什么目標時，自然會與同齡人尋求認同并進行比較。人們之所以會受到同齡人的影響，是因為他們想融入、成為他們所欣賞的同齡人、做別人正在做的事情，或擁有別人擁有的東西。
