Day 188 - The Economist - Weibo is in deep trouble
Foreign press read notes Day 188
The Economist - Weibo is in deep trouble
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📒 article source:
The EconomistIt is a magazine published by The Economist Newspapers Limited, founded in September 1843 by founder James Wilson.
Most of the magazine's articles are witty, humorous, strong, serious and witty, and focus on how to tell readers the most information in the smallest space.
The Economist, as one of the important sources of English-language questions, has a high degree of re-matching of words with English-language words. The long difficult sentences in the magazine and their composition structure are worth learning.
📒 article title:
Weibo woes
Weibo is in deep trouble
📒 summary of the article:
The article, selected from The Economist, is about the dilemma facing Weibo. In order to become the Chinese version of Twitter's micro-blog is really as dependent on advertising revenue as Twitter, the emergence of the outbreak has 100,000 ads, which is the biggest challenge facing microblogging. But Weibo also faces a long-term challenge, namely, the rise of companies such as Byte Bounce, which has challenged the dominance of Weibo and Tencent in the social media advertising market.
Article 400 words or so, relatively short, there are no new words, but there are many good to use expression, recommended reading and accumulation
What I'm sharing today is the first paragraph of this article 1⃣
The structure of the article is combed
Original (para 1)
THREE YEARS after Twitter launched in 2006, Chinese techies created a similar microblogging service in China. Weibo (literally “microblog” in Chinese) boasted an average of 241m daily active users in March, more than Twitter. Like its American cousin, Weibo allows users to follow other users, tweet, retweet and browse a real-time list of trending topics (though it steers clear of politics, out of bounds in its communist homeland). And like Twitter, it relies heavily on advertising revenue.
Read Notes (para 1)
The first sentence of the first paragraph
THREE YEARS after Twitter launched in 2006, Chinese techies created a similar microblogging service in China.
Three years after Twitter launched in 2006, Chinese tech talent has created a similar microblogging service in China.
📖 techie
n. someone who knows a lot about computers or other electronic equipment Technical personnel; science and technology fans; (especially) computer pass, computer fans
The second sentence of the first paragraph
Weibo (literally “microblog” in Chinese) boasted an average of 241m daily active users in March, more than Twitter.
In March, Weibo, the literal Chinese meaning of "micro-blog", claimed an average of 241 million daily users, surpassing Twitter.
📖 boast (writing recommendation✏️)
vt. if a place, object, or organization boasts something, it has something that is very good (Places, institutions, etc.) proud to have (good things)，eg: The city boasts two excellent museums. The city prides itself on having two excellent museums.
boast还可以表示：to talk too proudly about your abilities, achievements, or possessions boasting, boasting, boasting。 It can be used as both a verb and a object verb, boast (about/of) sth brags about something，eg: sth amy boasted that son was a genius. Amy boasted that her son was a genius. / he's boasting about how much money he has made. He is bragging about how much money he has earned. / the company is inclined to boast of its success. The company likes to show off its achievements.
The first paragraph is three sentences
Like its American cousin, Weibo allows users to follow other users, tweet, retweet and browse a real-time list of trending topics (though it steers clear of politics, out of bounds in its communist homeland).
It's the same kind of software in the U.S. Weibo allows users to follow other users, post tweets, retweet tweets and browse live leaderboards of popular topics (though it avoids banned politics in China).
📖 cousin (key word 👀)
n. something that has the same origins as something else Ants, similar things
In addition to referring to what we know as "cousins, cousins", this kind of thing can also be used to refer toother things such as plants and animalsFor example, when the outbreak first occurred this year, the introduction of the new coronavirus was usually a cousin of SARS.eg: The Alaskan brown bear is a close cousin of the grizzly bear. The Alaskan brown bear is a close relative of the grizzly bear.
📖 tweet
v. to publish a short remark or piece of information on Twitter Post information on Twitter，eg: He tweeted that he was just about to meet the president. He tweeted that he was about to meet the president.
📖 browse
vt. to look at information on the internet Browse (Internet);。eg:to browse the web to browse the World Wide Web
📖 steer clear of sb/sth
to avoid someone or something that seems unpleasant, dangerous, or likely to cause problems To avoid (unpleasant or dangerous people or things)，eg: Her speech steered clear of the issues. Her speech avoided controversial issues.
📖 out of bounds
If an area is out of bounds, people are not allowed to go there.(Somewhere) it is forbidden to enter
The first paragraph is four sentences
And like Twitter, it relies heavily on advertising revenue.
And, like Twitter, microblogging relies heavily on advertising revenue.
Full translation
THREE YEARS after Twitter launched in 2006, Chinese techies created a similar microblogging service in China. Weibo (literally “microblog” in Chinese) boasted an average of 241m daily active users in March, more than Twitter. Like its American cousin, Weibo allows users to follow other users, tweet, retweet and browse a real-time list of trending topics (though it steers clear of politics, out of bounds in its communist homeland). And like Twitter, it relies heavily on advertising revenue.
Three years after Twitter launched in 2006, Chinese tech talent has created a similar microblogging service in China. In March, Weibo, the literal Chinese meaning of "micro-blog", claimed an average of 241 million daily users, surpassing Twitter. It's the same kind of software in the U.S. Weibo allows users to follow other users, post tweets, retweet tweets and browse live leaderboards of popular topics (though it avoids banned politics in China). And, like Twitter, microblogging relies heavily on advertising revenue.
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