
色情網站訪問量增加
Ian is watching videos on YouTube. Ivy just came in.
伊恩正在看YouTube上的影片,艾薇這時進來了。
just(adv.)剛才、此時
Ivy: Hey, what are you watching?
艾薇:嘿,你在看什麼呢?
Ian: It’s Charlie the Unicorn, a viral video on YouTube in 2005.
伊恩:這是獨角獸查理,一部2005年YouTube的爆紅影片。
unicorn(n.)獨角獸viral(adj.)病毒的、爆紅的
Ivy: What is it about?
艾薇:它是關於什麼呢?
Ian: A unicorn, Charlie, is taken by two other unicorns on an adventure to the mysterious Candy Mountain, but it turns out that Charlie gets tricked by the other two unicorns – one of his kidneys is gone.
伊恩:一隻獨角獸查理,被另外兩隻獨角獸帶去神秘的糖果山冒險;但結果是查理被另外兩隻獨角獸耍了—牠的其中一個腎臟不見了。
adventure(n.)冒險、奇遇mysterious(adj.)神秘的turn out結果是…、最終發現get(v.)被trick(v.)欺騙、誘騙kidney(n.)腎臟gone(adj.)消失的、不復存在
Ivy: It sounds ridiculous. By the way, did you know that there were some access problems to YouTube a few days ago?
艾薇:聽起來滿荒謬的。對了,你知道前幾天YouTube有一些連接問題嗎?
sound(v.)聽起來ridiculous(adj.)荒唐的、可笑的access(n.)進入ago(adv.)以前、從前
Ian: Some access problems…… like people can’t watch videos or log in to YouTube?
伊恩:連接問題……像是人們無法觀看影片或登入YouTube嗎?
like(prep.)像log in進入、登錄
Ivy: Yup! The problems were fixed in two hours though. But you know what? During the outage, the traffic of a pornographic website Pornhub increased by 21%!
艾薇:是啊,雖然問題在兩個小時內就解決了;但你知道嗎?在當機期間,一個色情網站Pornhub的訪問量竟增加了21%。
yup(adv.)是的fix(v.)修理though(adv.)儘管、雖然during(prep.)在…期間traffic(n.)通信pornographic(adj.)色情的increase(v.)增加
Ian: It seems like people always need something else to watch.
伊恩:人們似乎總是需要某些其它的東西看。
seem(v.)似乎else(adv.)其他、別的