Millions of youngsters across Europe could suffer permanent hearing loss after five years if they listen to MP3 players at too high a volume for more than five hours a week, EU scientists warned.
欧盟的科学家们向欧洲数百万年轻人发出警告，如果他们以过高的音量每周听MP3超过五个小时的话，五年后可能会永久失聪。
The scientists' study, requested by the European Commission, attacked the concept of "leisure noise," saying children and teenagers should be protected from increasingly high sound levels--with loud mobile phones also coming in for criticism.
受欧洲委员会委托开展的此项研究抨击了所谓的“休闲噪音”，指出应保护儿童和青少年，让他们远离日益增多的音量危害，手机噪音也同时成为被指摘的对象。
"There has been increasing concern about exposure from the new generation of personal music players which can reproduce sounds at very high volumes without loss of quality," the Commission, the EU's executive arm, said in a statement.
作为欧盟的执行机构，该委员会在一份声明中表示，“新一代的个人音乐播放器在以很高音量播放音乐时仍能够保证音质不失真，由此引发的安全使用问题已受到越来越多的关注。”
