英语博客-北美风情 217、Viral Videos—Culips English Podcast

 　　With the Internet and social media, people are on computers and cell phones more than ever! This means that there are all kinds of new terms that have been created to describe all the new trends and innovations¹ online, one of which you already know: podcast! Listen to this episode² to learn some of English’s cutting-edge vocabulary.

 

　　Maura:Those are some viral videos, and check out our Facebook page because we’ll post some of these videos this week so you can check them out. Now, another expression that has become popular recently is to say that something is trending.

 

　　Harp:Yes. If something is trending.

 

　　Maura:Yeah. So if something is trending, it means that it’s very popular online at the moment.

 

　　Harp:Yes. Something that is popular online, you could say something is trending.

 

　　Maura:And you know something is trending when a lot of people are talking about it on Twitter or people are making comments or posting about it on Facebook. Another way that we know something is trending is when a lot of people do searches for it. So it’s become a really, really popular topic to be searched.

1 innovations   

改革( innovation的名词复数 )； 新观念； 新事物； 新设施

参考例句：

• The engineer has many technical innovations to his credit. 这位工程师有许多项技术革新的成就。
• This year's copy contains no innovations over those in the past. 今年的版本没有不同于过去的新花样。

2 episode   

n.（作品的一段）情节，插曲，系列事件中之一

参考例句：

• The episode was a huge embarrassment for all concerned.这段小插曲令所有有关人员都感到非常尴尬。
• This episode remains sharply engraved on my mind.这段经历至今仍深深地铭刻在我的心中。