中英文本

From Behind the Great Firewall
网络防火墙背后的故事
The next big thing in social media, TikTok, is fun, irreverent, and Made in China.
抖音国际版TikTok是社交媒体届的下一个重头戏，它有趣、荒诞、始创于中国[g+HT4&D)9EJL#;j(1b。
It's also got some unusual ideas about censorship and free speech.
对于审查制度和言论自由，它也拥有一些非同寻常的想法rT-K8,n7btVGznCPY98。
MOST nights, from around 7 till midnight, Sydney Jade is on TikTok, the smartphone app of the moment.
大多数晚上7点到午夜的时间里，雪梨·杰德都泡在Tiktok上，这是时下最火的智能手机应用yvo[xQdyrKzgeO)_An。
The platinum blond teenager films herself singing show tunes, doing jumping jacks, and joking around with store clerks at a Walmart not far from her home in Oklahoma.
这位住在俄克拉荷马州的金发少女录制自己的视频，她唱着歌，跑跑跳跳，还和离家不远的沃尔玛商店中的店员们开着玩笑D8WVku4wrTpLrN-Y_。
Her short music videos and livestreams are popular—Jade has 284,000 followers, some of whom periodically send her virtual gifts, like 99-inch Rainbow Puke stickers.
杰德的音乐短视频和LiveStreams都很受欢迎，她拥有28.4万粉丝，其中一些人定期给她送虚拟礼物，比如99英寸的彩虹催吐剂贴纸-~07#kpQ0=s-,I。
Jade's parents resisted TikTok at first.
杰德的父母起初抵制她录制视频=8E;s%,8C|WaLLQr^J。
They hadn't heard of the app and, Jade says, "didn't like the idea of strangers watching me sing alone in front of the pink curtains in my bedroom."
他们没有听说过这个应用，杰德说，“他们不喜欢陌生人看着我在卧室粉色窗帘前独自唱歌的想法@2hnzh_i;DKL[。”

But she convinced them that TikTok was "friendlier for kids than other apps like Facebook."
但她让父母相信，Tiktok“和脸书等其他应用相比，更适合孩子使用”s%THpm,cjcs.GPIUo*。
They let her join last year, just as, it seems, every other teenager signed on as well.
去年，他们让她和其他青少年一样也注册了应用K~,AAP36G=。
In January, TikTok was the most downloaded app in the Android and iPhone stores, according to research firm Sensor Tower Inc.
今年1月，根据研究公司Sensor Tower的数据，Tiktok是安卓和iPhone应用商店中下载次数最多的程序N[gTLPU0W~i]t。
The story sounds a lot like the rise of other social media powers such as Instagram and Snapchat, both of which pitched themselves as alternatives to Facebook's big blue app.
这个故事听起来很像Instagram和Snapchat等其他社交媒体巨头的崛起，它们都将自己定位为脸书蓝色应用的替代品ubJh)uMV@K-。
But TikTok wasn't created by Stanford students Mark Zuckerberg could buy off or spend into the ground.
但是，Tiktok并非由斯坦福大学的学生马克·扎克伯格所研发，可以花钱买断^|54A7ktqx.)DaUw=eS。
It's a subsidiary of a Beijing startup, Bytedance Ltd., that's built a collection of valuable apps in China powered by vast troves of data and sophisticated artificial intelligence.
它是由北京一家初创企业字节跳动科技有限公司的子公司开发，该公司在中国开发出一系列非常实用的应用，这些应用由大量数据和复杂的人工智能提供支持br3P)vy-248e|_GJ。
Last year, Bytedance's investors valued the company at $75 billion, the most of any startup in the world.
去年，字节跳动科技有限公司的投资者所评估的公司估值为750亿美元，超过全球所有初创企业的估值_^ClMy3PV=cmH]%mgp。

重点讲解

1.be far from 离......很远；远离

You will also be far from your family.

你还会远离家人#PKnPh^]v5e。

2.at first 起先；最初

You will find it hard at first, but stick at it.

你会发现刚开始时有点难，但要坚持下去9U1BC6HxF4。

3.in front of 在......前面

We dried our clothes in front of the fire.

我们在火前烘干了衣服f5!]FLEwa67l。

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