Parents grapple with E -learning as Chinese schoolsstay shut
中國學校停課，家長努力應對(孩子)在線學習問題
Working mom Chen Yan has taken to installing a surveillance camera at home to see what her 12-year-old son is up to during the day while she's at the office in Guangdong province.
在廣東上班的媽媽陳燕(音)，已經開始習慣在.上班的時候使用安裝在家中的監控攝像頭來看看自己12歲的兒子白天都在幹些什麼。
So far, she's caught him doing everything but studying, including napping while live- streamed lessons play in the background.“We can't hear a single sentence from the teacher smoothly given the slow Internet," she said. “And I'm sure the teacher won't notice if my son is listening in a 60-student class."到目前為止，她發現兒子什麼事都做了，唯獨沒有學習;一旁的網課正在直播的時候，兒子還在打著盹兒。“網速很慢，所以我們連老師的一句話都無法順暢地聽完，” 她說，‘ 而且我敢肯定，在一個60人的班級裡，老師不會注意到我兒子有沒有在聽課。
China's novel coronavirus outbreak has forced millions of parents across China to share space with their children schooling from home as campuses from the elementary to university level extend closures through March.新型冠狀病毒在中國暴發，迫使全國各地數百萬名家長不得不與在家遠程上課的孩子們待在-起，因為從小學到大學的各級學校都將開學延期至3月底。
It's been an unexpected boon for one industry:online education, which now must figure out how to engage students accustomed to classroom interaction. While parents are suffering, Chinese online education companies are stunned at their good fortune. What was a fiercely-competitive,cash-burning market segment is now one of the few business winners from the health crisis.
這對一個行業而言是意外的福音，那就是在線教育。線上教育企業現在必須想出辦法，讓那些習慣於線下課堂互動的學生參與進來。在家長們飽受網課折磨之際，中國的線上教育企業則正震驚於自己的好運。在線教育市場曾是個競爭激烈、燒錢不斷的細分市場，而如今卻成為了疫情之下屈指可數的商業贏家之一。
The boost to online learning platforms may ebb away quickly after the epidemic passes.
疫情結束後，推動在線學習平臺增長的動力也許會迅速消退。
“There's no guarantee that this short-term boom can be turned into long-term growth,”said Yvette Chan, Hong Kong-based managing director at consultancy Alvarez & Marsal.“Companies need to have high-quality learning platforms to keep students in the virtual classrooms."
“在線教育的短期繁榮並不一定能轉化為長期的發展，” 安邁企業諮詢公司駐香港的董事總經理陳宇婷表示，“企業需要擁有高質量的學習平臺，才能將學生留在虛擬課堂裡。”
For kids already steeped in the digital age, the addition of one more screen to their daily lives might be more seamless than for their bedraggled parents.
而比起被網課折磨得狼狽不堪的家長，對於在數字化時代長大的孩子們而言，給他們的日常生活多加一塊屏幕也許是再自然不過的事情。
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