How to Communicate without emoji

河北 朱宇哲

□語(yǔ)篇導(dǎo)讀

你知道有一個(gè)詞叫“表情包”嗎？它就是我們所說的網(wǎng)絡(luò)表情。雖然它不是中國(guó)人發(fā)明的,但表情包文化在中國(guó)已經(jīng)十分流行。幾乎所有人的社交軟件中都保存著各種表情,甚至有人以“斗圖”的形式取代了日常的交流。人們?yōu)槭裁慈绱藷嶂杂诒砬榘兀侩y道沒有表情包就不能好好聊天了嗎？

Today's world is one in which the emoji plays a necessary part.“Emoji” is a Japanese word made up of the Japanese characters—“e”,meaning “picture”,and “moji”,meaning “written character”.With the development of the Internet technology,emojis are the world's most widely understood language.

However,on Chinese social media,just understanding how to use emojis is not enough.Recently,young Chinese have become crazy about an even more complex form of emoji called “biaoqingbao”or sticker sets.

In contrast to emojis,sticker sets have many different types,including superstars,cartoons and popular sayings and so on.In fact,sticker sets are more interesting and special than emojis.More importantly,anyone can create them.

Sticker sets have come to mainly hold the social networks of young Chinese people,especially those born in the 1990s. For some of them,verbal and text-based conversations have been replaced by all kinds of sticker sets,and they are often in a kind of competition to see who has the most or the funniest.Young people have used this technology to build their own system of expression and communication with unique taste and value systems.

◆詞語(yǔ)沉淀

1.character/'k?r?kt? /n.文字;字符；性格；特點(diǎn)

2.technology/tek'n?l?d??/n.技術(shù)；工藝

3.complex/'k?mpleks/adj.復(fù)雜的；合成的

4.competition/?k?mp?'t??n/n.競(jìng)賽;比賽

5.in contrast to相比之下；與……形成對(duì)照

◆典句賞析

1.Today's world is one in which the emoji plays a necessary part.emoji表情在當(dāng)今的世界扮演了一個(gè)不可或缺的角色。

(1)該句子是一個(gè)含定語(yǔ)從句的復(fù)合句,one在這里指代“世界”,同時(shí)也是先行詞。which是關(guān)系代詞,在定語(yǔ)從句中充當(dāng)狀語(yǔ)的成分。

(2)短語(yǔ)play a...part in意為“在……扮演一個(gè)……的角色”,相當(dāng)于“role in sth.”。

【即時(shí)嘗試】環(huán)境在我們的日常生活中扮演了一個(gè)重要的角色。

2.However,on Chinese social media,just understanding how to use emojis is not enough.然而,在中國(guó)的社交媒體上,單單了解如何使用emoji表情是不夠的。

understanding是動(dòng)名詞。當(dāng)動(dòng)名詞作主語(yǔ)時(shí),謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞要用單數(shù)。另外,動(dòng)詞不定式作主語(yǔ)時(shí),謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞同樣要用單數(shù)。例如：

To get up early is necessary.早起是必要的。

【即時(shí)嘗試】眼見為實(shí)。

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譯文助讀

emoji表情在當(dāng)今的世界扮演了一個(gè)不可或缺的角色。“emoji(絵文字)”是一個(gè)日語(yǔ)單詞(意思是“象形文字”),它是由代表“圖片”的日文漢字“絵”(e)和意思是“文字”的moji組成的。隨著互聯(lián)網(wǎng)技術(shù)的發(fā)展,emoji表情是全球最通用的語(yǔ)言。

然而,在中國(guó)的社交媒體上,單單了解如何使用emoji表情是不夠的。最近,中國(guó)年輕人已經(jīng)開始迷戀上一種更復(fù)雜的表情符號(hào)“表情包”。

與emoji相比較,表情包有多種多樣的形式,包括明星、卡通、流行語(yǔ)等等。事實(shí)上,表情包比emoji表情更加有趣、個(gè)性化。更值得一提的就是,任何人都可以制作表情包。

表情包已經(jīng)占領(lǐng)了中國(guó)年輕人的網(wǎng)絡(luò)社交平臺(tái),特別是90年代后出生的那些人。對(duì)于一些90后來(lái)說,語(yǔ)言文字交流已經(jīng)被表情包斗圖所取代。他們也經(jīng)常會(huì)進(jìn)行一種比賽,看誰(shuí)的表情包最多、最有意思。年輕人用這種技術(shù)建立了具有獨(dú)特審美和價(jià)值體系的專屬表達(dá)交流系統(tǒng)。