“为我们的友谊干杯”，国外的中老年表情包长啥样丨夜听双语
2018.12.9 周日
表情包
A "meme" is an idea or image that spreads throughout a culture.
宜
开心
郁闷
忌
每个人都会使用甚至创作表情包。
我们的父母，也不例外。
但是他们的表情包常常带着时代气息。
随手点开微信家庭群、家族群，艳丽的配色、硕大的字体、“知足常乐”等等朴实的标语，这些都无不彰显着代际差异。
英语中的表情包可以叫做meme（/miːm/），指的是那种流行在网络上的配字的大图。
在土味表情包这件事上，人类估计是有共通点的。来体会一下。
So, a “meme” is an idea or image that spreads throughout a culture. Richard Dawkins coined this term in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Sometime in the early to mid 2000s, someone must have seen Richard Dawkins’ coined phrase and used it to describe different internet phenomenon.
“Meme（迷因或模因）”指的就是一个遍及整个文化圈的想法或者图像。Richard Dawkins在他1976年的书《自私的基因》中首次使用了这个词。两千零几年的时候，有人就看到过这个词，并且用它来描述不同的互联网现象。
理查德·道金斯
The word caught on, and now we use it to describe a multitude of internet images and/or videos. The type of meme you're referring to is called “image macro”.
这个词后来就流行起来了，现如今，我们用这个词来互联网上大量的图片或者视频。你指的这种迷因就叫做“表情包（大图）”。
Although they come in many forms, the most common type of image macro consists of:
尽管表情包有着多种呈现形式，最常见的表情包包含下列两种特点：
❶ Text, typically a large text in the Impact font, centered at the top and bottom of the image, using all upper-case letters. White text with a black border is typically used because it is easily readable on almost any background color. Typically, the text at the top is only for introduction and the text at the bottom is the main message. Exaggerated, intentional spelling errors are also used frequently for humorous effect.
文字，通常是粗体字，出现在图的顶上和底下，而且都是大写字母。文字还会加上黑边，因为这样不管背景颜色是什么，都很易于阅读。通常顶部的文字只是引入，底部的文字才是重点。人们也经常用夸张的、故意的拼写错误去产生幽默的效果。
❷ Image to be placed behind the text. These are typically drawn from a set of "known images" that are understood by many Internet users. However, by using the aforementioned typographic style, any image can take on the context or aesthetic of an image macro.
图在文字的后面。这些图都来源于网民们熟知的图。但是只要配上了刚刚说到的文字，任何一张图就有了表情包的语境和恶趣味。
One of the more famous image macros is "O RLY?" O RLY is often used on the internet as an abbreviation for the phrase "Oh, really?" Originally started with a snowy owl photograph (which is the classic O RLY image macro), it spread out over the Web quickly and was followed by other macros that convey a wide range of emotions.
火了的表情包有“ORLY?”，在网络上用这个表情包意在表达“噢？是吗？”，它最初起源于一个雪白猫头鹰的照片（就是个很经典的ORLY），这个表情包在网络上迅速传开了，后续又多出了很多别的表情包，表达着各种各样的情绪。
Another style of image macro that has amassed its own separate subculture is the "lolcat", an image combining a photograph of a cat with text intended to contribute humour. The text is often idiosyncratic and grammatically incorrect, and its use in this way is known as "lolspeak" or "kitty pidgin". Many times, the image is told from the point of view of the animal.
另外一种聚集了自身亚文化的表情包就是“lolcat（笑猫）”，这种图里面有一张猫的照片，再配有文字传递幽默。这些配文通常都很怪异，语法也有错误，这种用法就叫做“lolspeak”或者是“kittypidgin（猫咪皮钦语）”。很多时候图的意思是通过动物的角度传递出来的。
优秀的表情包火到可以拥有自己的文字版。比方说，黑人问号.jpg
打出这几个字，可以起到“诶，你怎么可以发图片”的效果。
你都有哪些爱用的表情包，你的收藏夹清理过几次？欢迎留言分享。
meme /miːm/ : n 模因；迷因（通过模仿等非遗传方式传导的行为）
coin: v 造（新词）
consist of: v 由……构成
exaggerated: adj 夸张的
intentional: adj 故意的；有意为之的
aforementioned: adj 之前提到的
pidgin /'pɪdʒɪn/: n 洋泾浜语
编辑：左卓
推 荐 阅 读
中国日报双语新闻
↑长按关注中国最大的双语资讯公众号↑