锂离子电池的应用非常广泛，从iPod到波音（Boeing）787飞机上都能找到它的身影。我有充分的证据相信，这种电池在特定环境下会过热，甚至还会自燃。据韩国首尔《朝鲜日报》 （ Chosun Ilbo）报道，上周末，一位55岁韩国用户的三星（Samsung）GalaxyNote手机在裤子口袋中突然着火，导致该用户大腿右侧二度烧伤。

    我曾经听说过iPhone发生爆炸，导致用户受伤的事，不过我倒是头一回听说三星Galaxy手机也有类似的事情。是不是三星的设备很少会自燃？还是说只是因为这类事情较少曝光？

    I have it on good authority that the lithium-ion batteries used in everything from iPods to Boeing 787s will, under the right circumstances, overheat and self combust. Just this weekend, according to the Seoul-based Chosun Ilbo, a Samsung Galaxy Note caught fire in the pants pocket of a 55-year-old Korean, leaving second-degree burns on his right thigh.

    I'd heard of iPhones exploding and injuring their owners, but this was the first I'd read of the same thing happening to a Samsung Galaxy. Is it that Samsung devices rarely catch fire? Or is it that we just don't hear much about them?

    用谷歌（Google）新闻搜索，很快就解开了第一个问题。我找到不少新闻：去年3月，一位韩国男生的Galaxy S II手机突然在他裤子口袋中自燃，机主因此受伤；去年6月，一位爱尔兰人的Galaxy S III手机爆炸，当时此人正将手机放在微波炉中烘干。

    对于第二个问题，为什么我们很少听闻Galaxy手机自燃，上面的谷歌趋势图表也许能说明一些问题。尽管我找到了三起Galaxy手机爆炸事件，但只有发生在爱尔兰的那桩在谷歌搜索结果中算是排得上号，而且关注度也不太高。如果按从0分到100分评分，假如2011年11月iPhone在一架飞往澳大利亚的航班上自燃的事件得分为100；那么这次Galaxy S III在韩国自燃的得分仅仅为18。(财富中文网)

    译者：项航

    A Google News search quickly answered the first question. I found accounts of a Korean schoolboy being injured last March when a Galaxy S II blew up in his trousers and of a Galaxy S III exploding in June when its owner -- an Irishman -- tried to dry it in a microwave.

    As for the second question -- why don't we hear more about Galaxies catching fire -- the Google Trends chart above offers a hint. Of the three Galaxy explosions I was able to track down, only the Irish incident registered a blip in Google's search results, and not a very big one at that. On a scale from 0 to 100 where the iPhone that caught fire on aflight to Australia in November 2011 is 100, the exploding Galaxy S III was an 18.