外刊真题题源泛读2:居家绿植治愈风潮(A篇题源 2025 全国二卷 )

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外刊真题题源泛读：居家绿植治愈风潮（2025 全国二卷 A 篇原题源）

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一、基础信息

二、主要内容

疫情居家期间，线上多肉绿植店主 Sonja Detrinidad 原本不看好自家网店生意，却迎来订单爆单，一年发货 7 万多株；大量顾客来信表示绿植缓解焦虑、治愈低落情绪。文章同步采访新奥尔良线下绿植店主 Teresa Thomas、线上绿植品牌 The Sill 公关负责人 Alisa，三方均证实居家时长增加带动绿植需求暴涨。民众居家闲暇增多，绿植成为低成本解压爱好，兼具装饰、净化空气双重作用；品牌线上社群调研显示大量普通人从几盆入门，逐步发展成大型绿植收藏爱好者，室内园艺成为流行心理疗愈方式。

三、英文原文（820 词）

How Houseplants Became a Pandemic Mental Health Trend

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When onetime personal plant shopper and aspiring "Martha Stewart of Succulents" Sonja Detrinidad opened her website, Partly Sunny Projects, in Southern California just weeks into the pandemic, she didn't have high hopes for it. Detrinidad figured people wouldn’t have the expendable income to spend on plants while they were instead scrambling to find groceries and toilet paper. But the opposite happened: She was flooded, shipping out 1,200 orders in June of 2020 alone. In the past year, Detrinidad estimates that she’s sent out more than 70,000 plants. Her success is just one obvious example of the industry-wide explosion of houseplant business brought by long homebound time.

Detrinidad runs a popular plant-focused TikTok account with over 285,000 followers, and her influence on customers turns out far bigger than she expected. One customer wrote her a sincere note: "Thank you again for sharing your videos on TikTok. Not to put pressure on you, but you have changed my life. I finally found something that helps me with my anxiety and sad days." Detrinidad admits she has received dozens of similar letters from buyers, all talking about how houseplants pulled them through tough, lonely pandemic periods.

"Where I live I have wide outdoor green spaces to relax," Detrinidad explains, "but many city dwellers are stuck in tiny studio apartments with no access to nature. They long to see green trees and lively plants. Growing houseplants offers them a precious chance to slow down and fully embrace the living space they stay in every single day."

Plus, Detrinidad points out, plant collecting can turn into a healthy, gentle addictive hobby. "You buy your first small plant, and soon you spot attractive leaves, unique colors and strange shapes of other varieties, then you just want to add more to your collection," she says.

Teresa Thomas, co-owner of New Orleans plant store Crazy Plant Bae, comes from a family full of plant lovers with green thumbs. She has witnessed unprecedented rising demand for indoor greenery this year, with both walk-in store sales and online delivery orders jumping sharply. "There’s an obvious close link between staying home and growing interest in houseplants," Thomas analyzes. "People gain much spare time during lockdowns and hope to beautify their living rooms. Besides, many choose air-purifying plants to ease worries about indoor air pollutants and poor air quality."

Alisa Richter, PR director of The Sill — an online plant brand with physical shops in New York and California — also confirms the huge business boom over the past year. "At the peak of lockdown restrictions, our website traffic and sales grew way beyond our original forecasts," Richter says. "We see lots of brand-new plant parents signing up. Since people spend most time indoors, they long for lively green plants to warm their living space. Those who only owned one or two plants before the pandemic now build large collections and take indoor gardening as a regular hobby."

Last autumn, The Sill launched a survey inside its Facebook fan group to ask members how plant parenting changed their lives during lockdown. One typical reply reads: "I ordered my first four plants back in April when everything shut down just to kill time. Now I own fifty plants, and they helped me get through all the weird, stressful pandemic days mentally."

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居家绿植如何成为疫情心理健康潮流

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索尼娅・德特里尼达曾是私人绿植采购者，一心想成为 “多肉界玛莎・斯图尔特”。疫情爆发仅数周，她在南加州上线线上绿植店铺 “晴半计划”，彼时她完全不看好店铺前景。德特里尼达认为，人们都在抢购食品、卫生纸，不会有多余闲钱购买绿植。但现实截然相反：仅 2020 年 6 月，她就发出1200 份订单；过去一整年，她估算累计寄出 7 万多株植物。她的成功只是居家时间拉长，带动室内绿植行业全面爆发的典型缩影。

德特里尼达运营粉丝超 28.5 万绿植抖音账号，对顾客的影响力远超自己预期。一位顾客给她写了真挚留言：“再次感谢你在 TikTok 分享视频。说句心里话，你改变了我的生活。我终于找到了能缓解焦虑、度过低落日子的寄托。” 德特里尼达坦言收到数十封同类来信，买家纷纷诉说绿植陪伴自己熬过孤独艰难的疫情时光。

“我居住的地方有大片户外绿地可以放松，”德特里尼达解释，“但很多城市居民被困狭小单间，接触不到自然。他们渴望看见绿树、鲜活草木。养室内绿植给了他们难得的机会，慢下来，好好拥抱每日生活的空间。”

除此之外，德特里尼达提到，收集绿植会变成健康温和的爱好。“你买下第一株小苗，很快会被其他品种别致叶片、独特色彩、奇特造型吸引，忍不住不断添置。”

新奥尔良绿植门店 “疯狂绿植宝贝” 联合店主特蕾莎・托马斯出身养花世家，全家都擅长养护植物。她亲眼见证今年室内绿植需求空前暴涨，线下到店客流与线上配送订单同步大幅攀升。“居家隔离与养花兴趣高涨存在明显关联，” 托马斯分析道，“封锁期间人们拥有大量空闲时间，希望美化居室；同时很多人选择空气净化绿植，缓解室内污染物、空气质量带来的担忧。”

线上绿植品牌 The Sill 在纽约、加州设有线下门店，公关负责人艾莉莎・里希特同样证实去年行业迎来巨大红利。“封锁管控最严格时，网站访问量与销售额涨幅远超预期，” 里希特说，“大量新手入坑养护绿植。人们长期居家，渴望鲜活绿植温暖房间。疫情前家里只有一两株植物的人，如今收藏大批绿植，把室内园艺当成固定爱好。”

去年秋天，The Sill 在脸书粉丝群发起问卷，询问大家养护绿植的生活变化。一条极具代表性回复写道：“全城封锁的四月，我下单四株绿植打发时间。现在我拥有五十盆草木，它们在这段压抑特殊的疫情时光里治愈了我的精神。”