【话匣子英语】病毒视频

什么是病毒视频？这是一种病毒软件吗？不是，它指的是转发很快的视频。

 

Maura: We’re going to tell you about some new terms and new expressions that have come up in the past 10 years because of social media¹. And when we talk about social media, we’re talking about Facebook, Twitter, blogs, podcasts. So, we’re gonna look at the new words that are connected to the new media that we use online.

 

Harp²: Today we’re gonna talk about viral videos.

 

Maura: And then we’re gonna talk about the expression that something is trending³.

 

Harp: And then we’ll talk about some new forms of media, specifically⁴ podcasts and blogs. I think we should get started.

 

Maura: So, first we’re gonna talk about one of my favourite things.

 

Harp: Viral videos.

 

Maura: Yes, viral videos. And viral videos are videos that become very popular that you watch online.

 

Harp: Yes. And so if we think about the word, viral videos, it’s like a virus⁵. When people get sick, a virus spreads very, very, very quickly and that’s what happens with viral videos; they get spread to a lot of people really quickly and people are watching them everywhere.

 

Maura: Yeah. It’s kind of fun, because you can see on Facebook that everybody’s watching it. Or at work or school, you might talk about these videos because a lot of people are watching them around the same time.

 

Harp: Yeah, it must be crazy, if you actually make a video that goes viral, to see how many people start watching it every day and how fast it goes.

 

Maura: Yeah, that would be very exciting. I remember a few months ago, actually, I was watching a video online and I’d noticed it because people I knew had posted it on Facebook and it was a really sad video. It was about a teenager who had been bullied⁶ at school. Anyways, I actually watched this video go viral. And what I mean is I watched it on YouTube and I saw that about 250,000 people had watched the video and when I checked back an hour later, one million people had watched the video.

 

Harp: Really?

 

Maura: Yeah. And then I checked back a little while later again, and another few hundred thousand people had watched the video, so it was really cool to see the numbers increase so fast.

 

Harp: Wow, that’s crazy.

 

Maura: Yeah, it really does happen that fast. In a matter of a few days or a week, millions of people around the world can watch one video.

 

Harp: Yeah, it’s crazy how fast it goes.

 

Maura: Yeah. Well, according⁷ to my research online, it seems that the idea of viral videos started not very long ago, in maybe 2009, when videos would really catch on and spread. You can’t go back very far in history and talk about viral videos.

1 media   

n.(medium的复数)媒体，新闻媒介，传播媒介

参考例句：

• The local media reported rioting across the country.当地媒体报道了全国范围的骚乱。
• His latest movie is being hyped up by the media.他新近的电影正被媒体大肆炒作。

2 harp   

n.竖琴；天琴座

参考例句：

• She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
• He played an Irish melody on the harp.他用竖琴演奏了一首爱尔兰曲调。

3 trending   

v.伸向( trend的现在分词 )；趋向；倾向；使趋向

参考例句：

• Since the 1920's, consumers are trending toward higher quality dessert apples. 二十世纪二十年代以来消费者都爱好高质量的生食苹果。 来自辞典例句
• Share prices have been trending down. 股票价格一直趋向下降。 来自辞典例句

4 specifically   

adv.明确地，具体地；特别地，特意

参考例句：

• The book was written specifically for children.这本书是特地为儿童编写的。
• I told you specifically not to do that.我明确地告诉你不要那样做。

5 virus   

n.病毒，滤过性微生物，毒害，恶毒；（一个能够复制、感染其他程序或破坏操作系统的程序）

参考例句：

• He is suffering from a virus infection.他受到病毒感染。
• There is a virus going round the world.世界上流行着一种病毒性疾病。

6 bullied   

adj.被欺负了v.恐吓，威逼( bully的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• My son is being bullied at school. 我儿子在学校里受欺负。
• The boy bullied the small girl into giving him all her money. 那男孩威逼那个小女孩把所有的钱都给他。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 according   

adj.按照，根据

参考例句：

• According to the Bible we are all the seed of Adam.根据《圣经》所说的，我们都是亚当的后裔。
• We must cut our coat according to our cloth this year.今年我们必须学会量入为出。