誰在潑髒水？
Carol and Chad are chatting.
卡蘿和查德正在聊天。
Chad: Hey, what are you reading?
查德：嘿，你在看什麼呢？
Carol: It’s a piece of news that my friend shared with me.
卡蘿：這是我朋友分享給我的新聞訊息。
Chad: There’s a lot of fake news online nowadays. Hopefully you know better than to believe everything you read online.
查德：現在網路上有很多假新聞，你知道我們最好不要盡信吧？
nowadays(adv.)如今、現在hopefully(adv.)但願、真希望
Carol: I do. Last year, two Mexican men got arrested for some petty crimes. But then some fake news emerged claiming that they’d kidnapped children, so they ended up being burned to death as a result.
卡蘿：我知道。去年有兩個墨西哥男子因輕罪被逮捕，但有假消息說他們誘拐兒童，所以他們最後因此被活活燒死。
arrest(v.)逮捕get V-pp被動語態(被…)petty(adj.)瑣碎的、無足輕重的emerge(v.)出現、浮現claim(v.)聲稱、斷言kidnap(v.)綁架、劫持had V-pp過去完成式as a result因此
Chad: That’s horrible! I also heard about this other tragedy caused by fake news – a Japanese entertainer was falsely branded as a murderer for ten years thanks to some fake news that had been circulating. The police was able to prove some ten years later that he actually had nothing to do with the murder at all, but his life had already been ruined.
查德：那太可怕了！我也聽到一則假新聞造成的悲劇：一位日本藝人因為假新聞的散佈，而被認定是殺人犯長達十年。警察十年後終於能夠證實他與謀殺案無關，但他的人生卻已經毀了。
tragedy(n.)悲劇cause(v.)造成、導致entertainer(n.)表演者、藝人brand(v.)加污名於、譴責thanks to由於=because ofhad been V-ing過去完成進行式circulate(v.)散佈、傳遞prove(v.)證明have nothing to do with與…無關ruin(v.)毀掉、破壞
Carol: Jesus! Fake news can literally end up killing people. We really shouldn’t share any news with anyone unless we’re certain that it’s true.
卡蘿：天啊！假新聞能致人於死耶！除非我們確定資訊的真實性，否則不應該把消息分享給任何人。
literally(adv.)確實、名副其實地unless(conj.)除非certain(adj.)確定的