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Young people in Britain have become a lost generation who can no longer mend gadgets and appliances because they have grown up in a disposable world, the professor giving this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures has warned. 在英国皇家科学研究所的圣诞讲座上，一位教授发出警告：英国年轻人已经沦为迷惘的一代。他们生活在这个用完即扔的“一次性”的时代，没有能力修理那些小器械和电器。 Danielle George, Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering, at theUniversityofManchester, claims that the under 40s expect everything to ‘just work’ and have no idea what to do when things go wrong. 丹尼尔·乔治是曼彻斯特大学的射频工程学教授。他声称40岁以下的人只期望自己的物品“能用就成”，当这些用品损坏时，他们毫无办法。 Unlike previous generations who would ‘make do and mend’ now young people will just chuck out their faulty appliances and buy new ones. 不像过去那代人，东西坏了想到的是修补一下接着使用；现在年轻人能做的只有将这些坏产品扔掉，再去买一个新的。 But Prof George claims that many broken or outdated gadgets could be fixed or repurposed with only a brief knowledge of engineering and electronics. 然而，乔治教授声称，很多损坏和过时的小器械其实只需要掌握一些简单的工程和电子知识就可以修好，并得以重新使用。 | 
