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Teens and peer pressure
青少年与同龄人压力
"Come on, everyone's doing it, so why shouldn't you?"
“来吧，每个人都在做，你为什么不能做呢？”
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.
同龄人压力是许多青少年都要面临的事情。你无法逃脱，它无处不在。无论你多么受人欢迎，多么惹人喜爱，或者你觉得自己多么自信，你迟早都会面临同龄人压力。
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?
不管是顺从群体规范的压力，还是遵循某种行为方式的压力，同龄人压力是每个人在生活的某些时刻必须处理的事情。处理得成功与否在很大程度上取决于你的自我感觉以及你对自己在这个世界所处位置的理解。学校里的每个人都戴着愚蠢的帽子，所以你也这样做；你最好的朋友求你去和她一起跑步，因位你们俩都需要锻炼，所以你去了。这些都是同龄人压力，你明白了吗？
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?
同龄人压力是你感到同龄人在促使你作出某种选择——这种选择可能是好的，也可能是坏的。那么，回避同龄人压力有什么困难呢？
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.
人们都想让同龄人接受自己，喜爱自己。在某种程度上，每个人都渴望融入一个群体。如果你对体育运动感兴趣，你可能会和“成天运动的笨家伙”一起闲逛。如果你对音乐感兴趣，你可能会和其他喜欢音乐的人待在一起。你属于这个群体，当你成为他们中的一员时，你会有安全感。这个群体认识你，也知道你会做什么。人们在思考自己希望成为什么样的人或想要实现什么目标时，自然会与同龄人寻求认同并进行比较。人们之所以会受到同龄人的影响，是因为他们想融入、成为他们所欣赏的同龄人、做别人正在做的事情，或拥有别人拥有的东西。
