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Dialogue 1
Jingjing and Mark are chatting on the subway.
京晶和马克在地铁上聊天。
Jingjing: Is this seat taken?
京晶：这个座位有人坐吗？
Mark: Go ahead. Oh, Jingjing, it's you!
马克：没人，你坐吧。哎呀，是你呀京晶！
Jingjing: I'm on my way to work.
京晶：我这是去上班路上
Mark: Me too, I'm just looking through WeChat moments to pass the time.
马克：我也是。我一直在看微信朋友圈打发时间。
京晶：你注意到最近的发布热点了吗？
Mark: Yeah. Lately, a lot of people have been posting pictures of when they were 18 years old.
马克：注意到了。最近，有许多人都在晒自己十八岁时的照片。
Jingjing: Do you know why that is?
京晶：你知道为什么会这样吗？
Mark: Let me guess: since it's 2018, someone got the idea, and it went viral.
马克：我猜猜，因为2018年了，有人有了这个想法，然后就广泛地流行开来。
Jingjing: That's a good guess. This coming year is also the first year that the post-90s generation can no longer call themselves teenagers.
京晶：这个猜得好！这新的一年也是九零后们不能再把自己叫做“青少年”的第一年。
Mark: You know what I noticed about all those pictures?
马克：你知道我在所有的这些照片里注意到什么了吗？
Jingjing: What was that?
京晶：什么呢？
Mark: Fewer of them were selfies.
马克：很少有自拍。
京晶：我不知道这是不是说明人们十八岁时更少自拍。
Mark: Yeah, I guess if you have a whole year of photos to choose from, you don't have to use a selfie.
马克：对啊，我猜如果你有一整年的照片可以选，不需要非选自拍嘛。
Jingjing: The most charming4 ones are group photos, showing what people were doing when they were 18 years old.
京晶：最吸引人最好看的就是集体合影了，展示了人们在十八岁的时候都在干什么。
Mark: Right. It's cool to see what hobbies and interests people had when they were younger.
马克：对。很酷，能看见人们在年轻一些的时候都有哪些喜好和兴趣。
京晶：很好的一个潮流，回望青葱岁月。
Mark: You said it.
马克：是啊！
New words: 习语短语
trends 潮流，趋势
something that more and more people are doing (a general change in the way people are behaving, or a behavior that is very common for a short time)
went viral 社交媒体上的快速广泛的传播
post-90s generation 90 后
people in 1990 or afterwards (but not after 2000)
Dialogue 2
接下来，一群人下车了，安静得又可以继续聊天
Jingjing: Are you still looking at WeChat moments?
京晶：你还在看微信朋友圈吗？
Mark: Kind of. I'm having a look at my subscriptions8. There's already an article about why people are posting pictures of themselves as 18-year-olds.
马克：在吧。我在看我的订阅。这里已经有篇文章在说人们为什么要晒自己十八岁时的照片。
Jingjing: Does it give the same reason I told you?
京晶：也给出了我给你说的同样的理由吗？
Mark: Yeah, and it talks a little about other social media trends.
马克：对，也谈到了一点其他社交媒体上流行的东东。
Jingjing: Is there a general pattern?
京晶：有普遍模式吗？
Mark: There might be. You know, each of these trends starts out as a cute joke. It becomes wildly popular, and everyone wants to get involved. Then, a few people make a joke about the joke. Finally everyone forgets about it.
马克：可能有哦。你知道，每个这样的潮流都是从一个可爱的笑话开始。然后广为流行，然后每个人都想参与其中玩起来。然后，又有一些人开这个玩笑的玩笑，最终人们把这事儿给忘了。
Jingjing: It seems like the 18-year-old posts are still a pretty hot trend. I wonder what the joke could be?
京晶：看上去18岁晒照这事儿还挺火的。我在想这可能会是个什么玩笑呢？
Mark: Well, the article predicts9 that people will post pictures of themselves at 18-months old, or post pictures of famous people (like Donald Trump10 or Lù Hán) when they were 18 years old.
马克：这篇文章预计人们会晒自己十八个月时的照片，或者发名人十八岁时的照片（比如特朗普或者鹿晗）
Jingjing: Those would be pretty funny.
京晶：那些就挺好玩了。
Mark: There's even a guy that takes old social media trends and makes new videos about them.
马克：甚至还有一个人把老的社交媒体梗又拿出来做了新的视频。
Jingjing: How does that work?
京晶：怎么弄呢？
Mark: Well, he must have access to the sets at a movie studio11. He took the ice bucket12 challenge13, and set it at the time of the Beijing Olympics. Everyone's wearing those volunteer uniforms.
马克：他肯定在电影工作室有门路。他参加了冰桶挑战，然后把时间设置在了北京奥运会上，每个人都穿着志愿者制服。
Jingjing: Let me see. Oh yeah, here's another one where people—it looks like the Tang dynasty—are eating fresh dates and bananas.
京晶：让我看看。这儿还有另一个，时间好像—看着像唐朝呢！在吃鲜枣儿和香蕉。
Mark: That one's good for a laugh. Those videos make it look like he was the one who started each of these trends.
马克：那个真够逗的。那些视频看着好像他就是开启所有这些潮流的人呢。
Jingjing: Interesting idea. I wonder what he'd do with the 18-year-old trend.
京晶：好玩的想法。我很好奇重返十八岁他会玩点什么？
New words: 习语短语
wildly popular 超级流行
so popular that people do/like it without knowing the reason
ice bucket challenge 冰桶挑战
a social media trend, in which people dumped buckets of ice water on themselves and collected money for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research (aka ALS ice bucket challenge)
good for a laugh 太好笑值得一看
funny, worth seeing/reading just because it's funny
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trend
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| n.趋势，倾向，方位；vi.倾向，转向 | |
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trends
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| n.趋势( trend的名词复数 )；（海岸、河流、道路等的）走向；流行；时尚v.伸向( trend的第三人称单数 )；趋向；倾向；使趋向 | |
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charming
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innocent
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subscriptions
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predicts
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trump
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studio
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