夏说英语新闻晨读 第491期:表情符号将成世界通用语?（在线收听）

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From getting ready in the morning to the trip to the church, the rings, the photographs, the celebrations, the drink, the love, and lots and lots of sleep, Murray's tweet, in part, heralded the rise of a brand new form of communication. This was the rise of the emojis, which linguistics professors such as Vyvyan Evans, author of The Emoji Code: The Linguistics behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats, would soon declare to be “incontrovertibly the world's first truly universal form of communication”, and even “the new universal language”.

get ready 准备好
trip to... 去……的路程
in part = partly 某种程度上来说
herald vt. 预示，预兆
The rise of China heralds the golden era.

brand new 全新的，崭新的
declarevt. 宣布，宣告
incontrovertibly adv. 无疑地，无可争辩地