VOA慢速英语2014 今年最热门的搜索内容是什么?
时间：2019-01-03 作者：英语课 分类：2014年VOA慢速英语(十二)月
What’s the Top 'Trending' Search This Year? 今年最热门的搜索内容是什么?
The American-based company Google has just released its list of the top trending online searches of 2014. Google keeps records of everything Internet users enter on its search engine. The new list gives the names or expressions that appeared in ever-increasing numbers over a set, limited period. Trending is not to be mixed up with the most popular searches on the website.
At the top of Google’s top-trending searches list is Robin 1 Williams, the American comedian 2 and actor who died four months ago. The list also includes the World Cup, Ebola, Malaysia Airlines, ISIS and Flappy 3 Bird.
Chances are that more people have heard of the game Angry Birds than Flappy Bird. But there it is.
Flappy Bird was the fifth most trending search term in the United States and the sixth most trending term around the world.
In the U.S., Flappy Bird even beat out major news stories like Ferguson, Ukraine and ISIS, the militant 4 group also known as ISIL or the Islamic State.
Flappy Bird started as a mobile app game in the Apple Store and on Google Play. The man who developed the program is Dong Nguyen of Vietnam, also known as @dongatory. He said it only took him a few days to create the game.
Earlier this year, people downloaded the Flappy Bird app 50 million times. The online magazine Verge 5 said it was the most popular game on mobile devices and earned about $50,000 a day from advertising 6.
The game was simple enough. A player is required to touch the computer screen to keep the bird alive and to fly through small spaces between pipes. In the words of @Beansprites, another game developer, Flappy Bird “reminds me of simple old school games from the 80’s! Simple & Addictive 7!”
By early February, the game earned more than 47,000 reviews on the App Store. Some players even produced a video called “How to Beat Flappy Bird.”
As popular as the game was, on February 8, Dong Nguyen tweeted “I can call ‘Flappy Bird’ is a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it.”
He followed with another tweet: “I am sorry ‘Flappy Bird’ users, 22 hours from now, I will take ‘Flappy Bird’ down. I cannot take this anymore.” The message was resent 8 nearly 140,000 times and he removed the game as he had promised.
The reaction was quick. Some of the unhappy “Flappy Bird” fans went on social media to send death threats and even suicide 9 notes to Mr. Nguyen.
Luckily, no one was killed and he is still busy creating new games.
- The robin is the messenger of spring.知更鸟是报春的使者。
- We knew spring was coming as we had seen a robin.我们看见了一只知更鸟，知道春天要到了。
- The comedian tickled the crowd with his jokes.喜剧演员的笑话把人们逗乐了。
- The comedian enjoyed great popularity during the 30's.那位喜剧演员在三十年代非常走红。
- Flappy flying suit! Thank you, Mr. Big Hat. Isn't he wearing his big hat? 飞行服，谢谢你，大帽子先生不是戴着帽子吗？
- Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
- He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
- The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
- She was on the verge of bursting into tears.她快要哭出来了。
- Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
- The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
- The problem with video game is that they're addictive.电子游戏机的问题在于它们会使人上瘾。
- Cigarettes are highly addictive.香烟很容易使人上瘾。
- I resent his dictatorial manner.我痛恨他的独断作风。
- I resent comments on the impracticality of small cars.我反对说小骄车不实用的说法。