短新闻泛读 | Day 2：元宇宙Metaverse需要儿童安全功能

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Hoping to avoid the child-wellbeing controversies that have dogged Instagram, Meta will roll out several features meant to increase safety for pre-teens in its virtual-reality realm.

the child-wellbeing: is a combination of children’s physical, mental, emotional and social health.

A dog is a pet, but other than that, dog also means to follow sb closely in a way that has annoys them.

roll out several features: introduce product functions to market

In addition, it will add to existing features on Instagram, intending to tamp down on the debates about the app’s effects on kids.

tamp down: decrease/reduce; press sth down

The parental controls, which activate only when a teen has linked a account with a parent’s, also allow parents to view a child’s screentime, see who the child has added as a friend and block content form a PC(personal computer) to the VR headset.

Activate: let sth start working

同义替换：kid, child, teen, pre-teen

View, see, control

丰富表达：为了：hoping to do, meant to, intending to

精确表达：activate