夏说英语新闻晨读 第477期:抖音火遍全球（在线收听）

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TikTok, the Chinese short-form video app, has been gaining global momentum. It's been downloaded about 80 million times in the United States, and nearly 800 million times worldwide, according to data from mobile research firm Sensor Tower. (Those figures exclude Android users in China.) "TikTok could be the first long-term successful social app in the United States owned and operated by an Asian company," Apptopia wrote in a recent report.

TikTok: 抖音
tick-tock: 秒针的声音；音乐的节奏
short-form video: 短视频
momentum: （物理）势能
We had a slow start with this project, but we are starting to gain strong momentum.
according to: 根据
Apptopia: 移动应用数据分析公司