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My rocky recovery from iPhone abuse
戒掉iphone的艱難之路
My name is Amy. I’m a 25-year-old graduate student who likes yoga, home-decorating and eating spoonfuls of peanut butter straight from the jar. Oh yeah, and I’m an iPhone addict.
我叫艾米。我是一名25歲的研究生，喜歡瑜伽、家庭裝修和直接吃罐裝花生醬。哦，對了，我還是個iPhone迷。
I wasn’t always an addict. In fact, for many years I told myself I didn’t want a fancy cellphone. They seemed like too much work, always beeping, ringing and demanding attention. I was perfectly content with my simple antique, and I didn’t anticipate changing my mind any time soon.
說起著迷，我不是一直如此。事實上，多年來我一直告誡自己，我不需要什么高檔手機。這類手機似乎太耗精力，總是嗶嗶作響、沒完沒了，需要時刻留意。我十分滿足于簡單的古董機，也并不期望很快改變我這一想法。
However, about a year ago, I found myself envious of all those proud iPhone owners, cradling their shiny new phones and showing them off to all their friends. I started eavesdropping on conversations about “iPhone apps”, feeling like a tourist listening to a language I couldn’t speak.
然而，大約一年前，我發現自己有點嫉妒那些趾高氣昂的iPhone用戶，他們拿著耀眼的新手機，向所有的朋友炫耀著。我開始偷聽關于“iPhone應用程序”的對話，感覺像是游客在聽一門完全不懂的語言。
Eventually I couldn’t ignore my iPhone instinct any longer, and I welcomed my new iPhone into my life. I instantly fell in love with the little bundle of joy, and could no longer imagine a life without it.
最終，我再也無法忽視對iPhone的渴望了，我讓一部新iPhone進入了我的生活。我立刻愛上了這個有趣的小東西，甚至再也無法想象沒有它的生活。
To my surprise, I suddenly found myself with a whole new circle of friends—other iPhone owners I could go to for advice and support as I learned the various functions of my new device. They responded to my iPhone-related queries when my non-iPhone friends couldn’t, and didn’t roll their eyes when I bragged about all the things little Eloise (yes, I named her) could do.
令我驚訝的是，我突然發現自己有了一個全新的朋友圈——當我了解到新設備的各種功能時，我可以向其他iPhone用戶尋求建議和幫助。他們可以回答有關我的iphone的相關問題，而其他非iphone用戶的朋友回答不了。當我吹噓小伊洛伊絲(是的，我給她起了個名字)能做的所有事情時，他們也不會無語地翻白眼。
For a couple months I was living on iCloud nine as I built my new life with Eloise. However, I realized I had a problem when one day I found myself Google-mapping my way to my mailbox, which is just outside my front door.
幾個月來，當我和伊洛伊絲開始新生活時，我一直心情愉悅。然而，當有一天我發現自己用谷歌地圖找郵箱時，我意識到不對勁兒了，而郵箱就在大門外面。
