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“duang”的來龍去脈

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The character "duang" is so new that it does not even exist in the Chinese dictionary. But it has already spread like wildfire online in China.
It appearing more than 8 million times on China's micro-blogging site Weibo, where it spawneda top-trending hashtag that drew 312,000 discussions among 15,000 users. On China's biggest online search engine Baidu, it has been looked up almost 600,000 times. It's been noticed in the West too, with Foreign Policy seeing it as a "break the internet" viral meme - like a certain Kim Kardashian image, or a certain multicoloured dress.

“duang”的來龍去脈

But what does it mean?
  "Everyone's duang-ing and I still don't know what it means! Looks like it's back to school for me," said Weibo user Weileiweito.
  Another user asked: "Have you duang-ed today? My mind is full of duang duang duang."
  "To duang or not to duang, that is the question," wrote user BaiKut automan.
  "Duang" seems to be an example of onomatopoeia, a word that phoneticallyimitates a sound. It all seems to have started with Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan, who in 2004 was featured in a shampoo commercial where he said famously defended his sleek, black hair using the rhythmical-sounding "duang". The word resurfaced again recently after Chan posted it on his Weibo page. Thousands of users then began to flood Chan's Weibo page with comments, coining the word in reference to his infamousshampoo appearance.
  The word appears to have many different meanings, and there's no perfect translation, but you could use it as an adjective to give emphasis to the word that follows it. A kitten might be "duang cute", for example. Or you might be "very duang confused" by this blog.
  For readers of Chinese characters, the Jackie Chan theme is also apparent from the quirky way in which the word is written: a combination of Chan's Mandarinnames.
  1 spawned(魚、蛙等)大量產(卵)( spawn的過去式和過去分詞 ); 大量生產
  參考例句
  The band's album spawned a string of hit singles. 這支樂隊的專輯繁衍出一連串走紅的單曲唱片。The computer industry has spawned a lot of new companies. 由於電腦工業的發展,許多新公司紛紛成立。
  2 phonetically按照發音地,語音學上
  參考例句:
  In actual speech, a phoneme is realized phonetically as a certain phone. 在實際會話中,音位總是以某個音素的形式得以體現出來。Though phonetically alike, they are written with different ideographs. 雖然語音相同,它們的書寫卻不同。
  3 sleek adj.光滑的,井然有序的;v.使光滑,梳攏
  參考例句:
  Women preferred sleek,shiny hair with little decoration.女士們更喜歡略加修飾的光滑閃亮型秀髮。The horse's coat was sleek and glossy.這匹馬全身潤澤有光。
  4 infamous adj.聲名狼藉的,臭名昭著的,邪惡的
  參考例句:
  He was infamous for his anti-feminist attitudes.他因反對女性主義而聲名狼藉。I was shocked by her infamous behaviour.她的無恥行徑令我震驚。
  5 Mandarin n.中國官話,國語,滿清官吏;adj.華麗辭藻的
  參考例句:
  Just over one billion people speak Mandarin as their native tongue.大約有十億以上的人口以華語爲母語。Mandarin will be the new official language of the European Union.普通話會變成歐盟新的官方語言。