The average person in the United States watches almost five hours of television a day, more than an hour greater than the average of people in the world's biggest economies, new research says.
新研究指出，美國平均每人每天看近五個小時電視，比世界經濟大國民眾看電視的平均時間多一個小時。

2015's International Communications Market report, an annual survey by the UK's telecoms regulator Ofcom, said the average American watches 282 minutes of broadcast television a day - or four hours and 42 minutes.
英國通信管理局進行的2015年國際通信市場年度調查報告顯示，美國人平均每天看282分鐘電視——即4小時42分鐘。

In comparison, the average Brit watches three hours and 40 minutes of TV - one minute below the average.
相比之下，英國平均每人每天看電視的時間是3小時40分鐘——比世界平均時間少1分鐘。

However, the figures include only live television and recorded programmes, not catch-up television or recorded media - which Ofcom said the UK leads the world in.
然而，該數據只包括電視直播和錄制節目，不包括網絡電視和紀錄片——英國通信管理局稱英國在這兩方面的觀看時長居世界之首。

The UK saw the greatest decline in linear TV viewing last year, down 4.9 percent, but Ofcom said the UK appears to be "the most technologically-advanced of European nations".
去年英國有線電視收看下降4.9個百分點，是下降最多的國家。但英國通信管理局說英國似乎是“擁有最先進技術的歐洲國家”。

81 percent of Brits have used an online service to watch TV or films, such as Netflix or BBC iPlayer, in the last month, while 16 percent have watched catch-up TV on a tablet. Both were ahead of any other country in the group of the world's biggest economies.
上個月，81%的英國人用在線設備看電視節目或者電影，比如用網飛和BBC iPlayer應用軟件，16%的人用平板看網絡電視。在世界最大經濟體中，這都領先于其他任何國家。

42 percent of UK households own a TV connected to the internet, more than any country except Spain.
42%的英國家庭有一臺連接互聯網的電視，僅次于西班牙，排名世界第二位。

In comparison, the US's broadcast TV viewing per day declined by 3.8 percent last year, and France's declined by 2.2 percent.
相比之下，去年美國廣播電視收視率下降3.8個百分點，法國下降2.2個百分點。

Of the 15 countries included in the survey, Sweden, China, Korea, the Netherlands and Australia watch less linear TV a day, compared to the UK.
在包括瑞典、中國、韓國、荷蘭和澳大利亞的15個調研國家中，他們看電視的時長都比英國少。

英文來源：每日電訊報
譯者：張卉
審校&編輯：丹妮