day 21the feed

the feed

Explain a trend with 原因主要有两个, back each cause with 拿……来说, show a chain reaction with 一旦……就……, retell an explainer about video feeds, and say why people spend so long on short videos.

words to say

• 平台 píngtái · platform
• 用户 yònghù · user
• 推荐 tuījiàn · to recommend
• 浏览 liúlǎn · to browse
• 娱乐 yúlè · entertainment; to have fun
• 热门 rèmén · popular, in demand
• 点击 diǎnjī · to click
• 数据 shùjù · data
• 系统 xìtǒng · system
• 吸引 xīyǐn · to attract, draw in

sentences

• 这个平台有好几亿用户。 · This platform has hundreds of millions of users.
• 系统会根据你的浏览记录推荐视频。 · The system recommends videos based on what you’ve browsed.
• 一旦开始看，就很难停下来。 · Once you start watching, it’s hard to stop.
• 热门的视频往往有几百万次点击。 · Popular videos often get millions of clicks.
• 拿我自己来说，我一看就是一个小时。 · Take me, for example: once I start watching, an hour goes by.

say it after the voice

• 一旦你看完一个视频，系统就会马上给你推荐一个差不多的。 · Once you finish one video, the system immediately recommends you another one just like it.
• 拿我自己来说，我本来只想看五分钟，结果一看就是一个小时。 · Take me: I only meant to watch for five minutes, and an hour went by.
• 平台记录下用户的每一次点击，用这些数据来判断你喜欢什么。 · Platforms record every click a user makes and use that data to work out what you like.
• 短视频又轻松又有意思，目前很多人下班以后最主要的娱乐就是看视频。 · Short videos are light and fun, and at present, for many people, watching them is the main entertainment after work.

questions to answer

• 你喜欢看短视频还是长视频？ · Do you prefer short videos or long ones?
• 如果手机一天不能上网，你会做什么？ · If your phone couldn’t go online for a day, what would you do?
• 为什么热门视频大多很短？ · Why are most popular videos short?

a passage to retell

• Have you noticed that video platforms seem to understand you better and better? That’s because the system records everything you do. Which videos you watched to the end, which you swiped away quickly, which you liked: it knows them all. Then it recommends more content just like it. Over time, the range of what you see gets narrower and narrower. So it’s best, now and then, to search for something new on purpose.

a passage to read aloud

有人说，一个人每天把注意力放在哪里，他就会慢慢变成什么样的人。今天，手机上的世界丰富多彩，可是我们看到的内容，很多是系统根据数据替我们挑选的。一旦习惯了被推荐，我们就很少再主动去寻找自己真正感兴趣的东西。时间一长，我们的眼睛越来越忙，心却越来越空。我们看了一整个晚上，却说不出自己到底看了什么。其实，注意力是一个人最宝贵的东西。把它交给一块屏幕，还是留给一本好书、一位朋友、一段安静的散步，这个选择，每天都在我们自己手里。