The number of young people with no close friends has risen fivefold(五倍的) since 2014 as a result of growing up in a “bleak(黯淡的，无望的) world” dominated by austerity(紧缩政策), the pandemic and social media.
自2014年以来，没有密友的年轻人数量增长了五倍，原因是他们在紧缩政策、疫情和社交媒体主导的“黯淡世界”中成长。
New research paints a sobering picture(描绘令人警醒的画面) of how 11- to 24-year-olds in England are increasingly lonely, isolated(孤立的，孤独的) and “disconnected” from themselves, peers(同龄人，同辈) and wider society.
新研究描绘了一幅令人警醒的画面：英格兰11至24岁的年轻人日益孤独、孤立，并与自我、同伴和更广泛的社会“脱节”。
“Young people in England are becoming dramatically(显著地，急剧地) more isolated from one another, with one in 20(二十分之一) now reporting that they have no close friends at all, up from one in 100 in 2014,” according to a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank(智库) called “the loneliest generation”.
“英格兰的年轻人正变得彼此更加孤立，如今每20人中就有1人报告完全没有密友，而2014年这一比例为每100人中有1人，”公共政策研究所（IPPR）智库一份名为“最孤独的一代”的报告称。