當朋友的狗仔隊
Mark and Alice are roommates. Alice is taking a selfie.
馬克和愛麗絲是室友。愛麗絲正在自拍。
Alice: What do you think of my selfie with this filter?
愛麗絲：你覺得我用這個濾鏡自拍怎麼樣？
filter(n.)濾鏡、過濾器
Mark: Go easy on the retouching. It’s a bit fake.
馬克：別修太大啦。這有點假。
go easy on sth.節制retouching修圖fake(adj.)假的
Alice: Really? I’ll try another one.
愛麗絲：真的嗎？我試另一個。
Mark: Don’t you think that some people spend too much time on selfies? I saw a girl on the MRT the other day. She was taking selfies the whole time.
馬克：你不覺得有些人花太多時間自拍嗎？前幾天我在捷運上看到一個女生。她一直在給自己拍照呢。
spend time on sth.花時間the other day某天the whole time整段時間、一直
Alice: Well, now many people are addicted to it just like her. Their Instagram pages are filled with pictures of themselves.
愛麗絲：現在很多人都像她一樣沉迷自拍。IG上全部都是自己的照片。
be addicted to sth.上癮、addiction(n.)癮頭be filled with sth.充滿
Mark: I heard some people are saying no to this whole selfie culture. For example, there’s a photo-sharing app called Poparazzi that encourages users to take photos of friends only.
馬克：我聽說有些人開始排斥這樣的自拍文化。比方說有個app叫Poparazzi，鼓勵大家只拍朋友的照片。
culture(n.)文化、cultural(adj.)encourage sb. to do sth.鼓勵某人做某事
Alice: I like the name. I guess it’s a play on the Italian word “paparazzi,” right? So it’s like taking a paparazzi shot of your friends.
愛麗絲：我喜歡這個名字。我猜這是跟義大利文的狗仔有關，對吧？所以這就像當朋友的狗仔隊一樣。
word play文字遊戲take a shot拍照
Mark: Exactly. The app also turns off the front camera so that users can’t take selfies. Posts on the app will not even show the numbers of followers and likes.
馬克：沒錯。這款app還會關閉前鏡頭，就無法自拍，也不會顯示追蹤人數和點讚數。
turn off關閉front(adj.)前面的number(n.)數字follower追蹤人數、粉絲
Alice: This idea is fascinating. Let’s download the app!
愛麗絲：很有趣欸。我們下載用看看！
fascinating(adj.)引人入勝的