两个好友面对面坐着喝茶聊天，各自的手机都放在手边，手机一有响动，便会拿起来看一眼或者回复信息，而两人的谈话便会因此中断一会儿。这种情况在英语里叫做phubbing。

Phubbing refers to the activity of being impolite in a social situation by looking at your phone instead of paying attention to the person you are with.

Phubbing指在社交场合不关注身边的人，而是一个劲看手机的不礼貌行为，我们可称之为“低头症”。

Have you ever been chatting to a friend and succumbed to the temptation, mid-conversation, of checking your mobile and apologetically interrupting the flow because you just can't resist replying to a text message? If so, then you're guilty of a 21st century impropriety now known as phubbing. People who can’t help checking their phones during a conversation are known as phubbers.

你有没有过这样的经历，跟朋友聊天的过程中忍不住想看手机，然后很抱歉地暂停你们的对话，因为你实在忍不住要回个短信？如果有的话，那么你就是21世纪无礼行为“低头症”的一份子。跟人聊天时老忍不住看手机的人就被称为“低头族”。

The word phubbing and its related derivations first appeared in 2012, formed from a blend of the noun phone and verb snub meaning 'to insult someone by ignoring them'.

Phubbing一词及其衍生词最早出现在2012年，由名词phone和表示“怠慢”的动词snub组合而成。

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