Decades ago japanese companies produced heaps of cheap , plastic playthings .

几十年前，日本的公司还在生产着大量的廉价塑料玩具。

One way to find out is to look to the animal kingdom , where there are no gender-specific playthings .

有一种方法可以探寻答案，就是转向动物王国，那里没有针对特定性别的玩具。

For western consumers , the lost lives were an invitation to consider the real cost of their electronic playthings .

对于西方的消费者来说，他们的电子玩具包含了生命失去的成本。

In the 1980s nobody foresaw that mobile phones would become anything more than executive playthings ; and the runaway success of text-messaging took the entire industry by surprise .

在80年代没有人能预见移动电话会成为比玩具还普遍的东西；并且文字短信的巨大成功让整个产业都感到惊讶。

The toy industry is tapping into children 's fascination with tablets and smartphones by rolling out new playthings that connect with touch-screen devices .

随着平板电脑和智能手机在儿童世界的风靡，玩具产业不失时机地推出了能够与这些触摸屏设备关联起来的新玩具。