故事要从几颗吸水球说起，
这个玩意儿，相信你小时候应该玩过，有叫吸水球，吸水弹，也有叫“水精灵”，总之就是泡在水中它会变得越来越大。
今天的故事就要从它说起，法国一位名叫Cyril Schreiner的网红小哥，他有一个大胆的想法，把这些小球泡满浴缸会发生什么呢？
直接看视频吧，法语预警！
polymer
表示“聚合物”，英文解释为“A polymer is a chemical compound with large molecules made of many smaller molecules of the same kind. Some polymers exist naturally and others are produced in laboratories and factories.”
bead
1）表示“（液体的）小珠，小滴”，英文解释为“a very small amount of liquid”举个🌰：
Beads of sweat stood out on his forehead.
他额头上冒出了汗珠。
2）表示“（中间有孔的）小珠子”，英文解释为“Beads are small pieces of coloured glass, wood, or plastic with a hole through the middle. Beads are often put together on a piece of string or wire to make jewellery.”
marble
1）表示“（玻璃）弹子”，英文解释为“a small ball of coloured glass that children roll along the ground in a game”；
2）表示“大理石”，英文解释为“a type of hard stone that is usually white and often has coloured lines in it. It can be polished and is used in building and for making statues, etc.”如：a slab/block of marble 一块大理石板。
YouTuber who copied viral craze for filling a bath with Orbeez beads that expand in water blocks his entire neighbourhood's drain system when he tries to empty it by pulling the plug
Daily Mail
A French social media influencer has gone viral after he filled his bath with orbeez and managed to block his entire neighbourhood's drainage systems with the jelly-like balls.
drainage system 排水系统
drain：a pipe that carries away dirty water or other liquid waste 下水道；排水管
jelly
1）表示“果冻”，英文解释为“a soft, sweet, usually brightly coloured food made from sugar, gelatine, and fruit flavours, that shakes slightly when it is moved”；
2）表示“胶状物，胶凝物”，英文解释为“any thick sticky substance, especially a type of cream used on the skin”；
YouTuber Cyril Schreiner, from Alsace, poured three boxes of Orbeez - beads that expand in water - into a bath for his latest video.
But events took a turn for the worst when he decided to unplug the bath to try to get rid of the jelly balls down the drain.
unplug
1）表示“拔去…的电源插头”，英文解释为“If you unplug an electrical device or telephone, you pull a wire out of an outlet so that it stops working.”举个🌰：
Whenever there's a storm, I unplug my computer.
一有暴雨，我就拔掉电脑插头。
2）表示“除掉…的障碍物”，英文解释为“to remove what is blocking something”举个🌰：The video shows you how to unplug a bath drain full of hair.
这段视频向你展示如何疏通一个完全被头发堵塞的浴缸下水道。
3）后文用的是pull the plug，就是plug的反义词，指的就是把浴缸的塞子拿掉了。
The balls filled the pipes and flooded into the toilet and sink. Cyril then made it even worse by trying to flush the toilet, which only resulted in it overflowing and flooding his bathroom.
sink
sink作名词在卡戴珊家洗手池是平的 网友：有钱真好！刷席子最方便！一文中就出现过。sink作动词比较常见，表示“下沉，沉没”（to go down below the surface of water, mud etc），如：The boat was beginning to sink fast. 那艘船开始迅速下沉。
此处作名词，即指“洗脸盆；洗涤槽；洗碗池”，英文解释为“a large open container that you fill with water and use for washing yourself, washing dishes etc”；
此外，它还有个特殊的用法，作为形容词，表示“位于社会条件差的/贫穷地区的；贫民窟的”（located in a poor area where social conditions are bad），如：sink estate/school 垃圾住宅区/学校，指的就是“an area where people live or a school that is in a very bad condition and seems unlikely to improve” 。
A further update revealed the entire neighbourhood's drainage system had been blocked and the mayor was looking for the culprit.
culprit
· culprit表示“罪犯；造成破坏（问题）的人”（the person who is guilty of a crime or doing something wrong）
类似的：
· perpetrator表示“作恶者；犯罪者”，英文解释为“someone who does something morally wrong or illegal”。
· prankster表示“恶作剧者”(someone who plays tricks on people to make them look silly）
Although the videos were all in French, one English-speaking Twitter user - with the username @yuqheis - translated the events in a thread that has been viewed six-million times.
They wrote: 'This French guy filled his tub with orbeez then had no idea how to get rid of them so he just pulled the plug which resulted in orbeez overflowing both in his toilet and sink.'
tub
等于bathtub，表示“浴缸”，英文解释为“a long plastic, metal, or ceramic container that is filled with water so that you can sit or lie in it to wash your whole body”。
It was one disaster after another when his vacuum cleaner caught on fire while he tried to clean the mess.
The Twitter user added: 'His hoover caught on fire when he tried to hoover them up, then he found out the Orbeez invaded the entire sewer system in his neighbourhood.
hoover
可以作动词，也可以作名词，表示“吸尘器；用真空吸尘器清扫（地毯、地板等）”，英文解释为“to clean a carpet, floor, etc. with a vacuum cleaner”。上文用的vacuum cleaner同样指的吸尘器；真空吸尘器。
'Someone suggested to use salt and it actually worked until poop started flooding not only his house but the neighbourhood too. There are genuine tears streaming down my face at this point.
poop
poop这个词在比尔·盖茨在演讲中举起一杯“粪便”和搞笑，我们是认真的！2019年搞笑诺贝尔奖揭晓！文中都接触过，poo/ poop均表示“屎，大便”，英文解释为“solid waste from the body”；一说poo是英式，poop是美式，比较不正式，口语上更常用；而柯林斯英汉双解大词典解释称poo是儿童用语“大便；臭臭”（Poo is a child's word for faeces.）
poop此处作动词，表示“拉屎”，如：
Ted, did you poop in your pants?
泰德，你是不是拉在裤子里了？
poop还有一些奇怪的用法：
比如poop out可以表示“筋疲力尽”，英文解释为：to become too tired to continue what you are doing. 举个🌰：
I just poop out if I stay up too late.
我晚上熬夜熬得太晚的话就会筋疲力尽的。
还可以指机器或者设备“停止工作，停止运行，熄火”，英文解释为：to stop working or operating. 举个🌰：
The engine pooped out before we reached our destination.
在我们抵达目的地之前发动机就坏了。
当然，更奇怪的是在old-fashioned slang中，作为名词的poop还可以表示“信息; 事实”（information），感受下这个🌰：
Did you get the poop on all the candidates?
你弄到所有候选人的信息了吗？
'The Orbeez actually blocked the entire water system in his neighbourhood and he received a letter from town hall saying cops are searching for the culprit.'
Cyril, who has half a million subscribers, originally posted the full video on his YouTube channel. And when he saw the English translation of his antics on Twitter he commented: 'HELLO IT'S ME THE IDIOT.'
下面简单总结下这位小哥的神奇操作，
1. 吸水球充满浴缸后，他竟然“拔掉了浴缸的塞子”，准备让吸水球从下水道里溜出去。
2. 听说吸尘器可以吸掉水球？于是用着用着把吸尘器烧掉了。
3. 听说加盐有效果？还真有点效果，于是整个卫生间变成了💩💩💩，以及邻居家也遭殃了...
4. 市政的找上门了...
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