Observing the world during the past 24 months, it seems that the most apparent hibernating species is not the commonly perceived, good-old garden-variety bear, but instead the Homo Sapien.
观察过去24个月的世界，似乎最明显的冬眠物种不是人们普遍认为的、古老的花园品种熊，而是智人。
Ever since the COVID pandemic began, public spaces around the world became less and less crowded, with people staying in their own homes all the time. Schools and work were postponed or switched quickly to online.
自新冠肺炎疫情爆发以来，世界各地的公共场所越来越不拥挤，人们一直呆在自己家里。 学校和工作被推迟或迅速切换到线上。
According to cnbc.com, people looking for online jobs increased 460 percent in 2 years, between June, 2019 and June, 2021). There was also a 15-fold increase in the number of new registrations on the online course website, edX, during April 2020.
根据cnbc.com的数据，在2019年6月至2021年6月期间，寻找在线工作的人数在2年内增长了460%）。 2020年4月，在线课程网站edX的新注册数量也增加了15倍。
For me, ever since the virus started, I have hardly ever left my neighbourhood, buying any required materials online, chatting with my friends and studying through digital means. We became the bears, hibernating in our caves with our supply of websites, Zoom calls, and online courses, during the long-lasting winter of COVID.
对我来说，自从病毒爆发以来，我几乎没有离开过我的邻居，在网上购买任何必要的材料，与朋友聊天，并通过数字方式学习。 在新冠肺炎的漫长冬天，我们变成了熊，在我们的洞穴中冬眠，提供网站、Zoom通话和在线课程。
However, just as hibernation allows animals to get ready for springtime and prepare for the warmth and birth of the new organisms that it brings, this human hibernation could also allow our global society to prepare for new changes in life in the post-COVID era.
然而，就像冬眠让动物为春天做好准备，并为它带来的新生物的温暖和诞生做准备一样，这种人类冬眠也可以让我们的全球社会为后新冠肺炎时代的新生活变化做好准备。
So, what have Chinese people been up to while hibernating in their homes? According to statista.com, the most activity during COVID in China is surfing the internet, with 78.7 percent of female and 73 percent of male survey participants claiming so. Next up comes chatting, gaming and sleeping.
那么，中国人在家里冬眠时在做什么呢？ 根据statista.com的数据，在中国新冠肺炎期间，最大的活动是上网，78.7%的女性和73%的男性调查参与者声称如此。 接下来是聊天、玩游戏和睡觉。
While these activities may not seem like the most productive, they have allowed us to look within ourselves and at others in a clearer perspective.
虽然这些活动可能看起来不是最有成效的，但它们让我们以更清晰的视角看待自己和他人。
Hibernation has given us time to reflect and think deeply about things we think of as significant, such as our goals in life and important relationships, as well as the things we enjoy doing. Unable to go to school in early 2020, I had more time to consider my goals, plans and my true interests, which, in a way, made my room my own special cave. Here, I stored winter supplies, such as bullet journals or my stationary while I waited, using them to bring about better changes in the spring to come.
冬眠让我们有时间反思和深入思考我们认为重要的事情，例如我们的人生目标和重要的关系，以及我们喜欢做的事情。 2020年初无法上学，我有更多的时间来考虑我的目标、计划和真正的兴趣，从某种程度上说，这使我的房间成为我自己的特殊洞穴。 在这里，我在等待时储存了冬季用品，如子弹日记或我的文具，用它们在来春天带来更好的变化。
Secondly, consider the smallest things that happen in our daily lives, as compared to the huge pandemic hanging over our heads. Who has not wondered as to their health and how they are still alive on this Earth today?
其次，与笼罩在我们头上的巨大疫情相比，想想我们日常生活中发生的最小的事情。 谁不想知道他们的健康，以及他们今天仍然活在这个地球上？
For me personally, I am most thankful for that I still have people who are happy to be with me, such as friends and family. This hibernation period has also allowed me to keep in touch with some of my old friends in a city where I formerly lived.
就我个人而言，我非常感谢我仍然有愿意和我在一起的人，比如朋友和家人。 这个冬眠期也让我与我以前居住的城市的一些老朋友保持联系。
It all amounts to the steps of change that lead to a warmer, happier spring.
这一切都相当于变化的步骤，导致一个更温暖、更快乐的春天。
