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随身英语 The rise of the emoji 表情符号的兴起 Play audio file 很多人在用手机发短信时，经常会在字里行间内加上几个被称作“表情符号”的小图标，这个近来十分流行的新功能不仅能让枯燥无味的文字看起来丰富多彩，还可以快速且高效地向他人传达我们的情感。你经常使用哪些表情符？本集《随身英语》探讨表情符号成为一种国际化语言及重要交流工具的发展过程。 课文内容 Vocabulary: emotions 词汇: 情感 Happy, angry, amazed – these are some of the emotions we like to express these days when we're sending a message on our smartphones! That's why many of us now add little pictures to our texts to brighten up someones mobile screen but we're also using them as a quick way of telling someone how we're feeling. Yes, emojis have become a vital tool for communication. Let's clear one thing up first – there are emojis and emoticons. The latter are little images made using normal keys on a keyboard. For example, a colon, two dots, followed by the curved line of a close brackets is a 'smiley face'. But as technology has become more sophisticated, pre-made images have been created that can be simply added to your messages, which is great! The emoji was first invented in Japan in the late 1990s and the word 'emoji' comes from the Japanese words for 'picture' and 'character'. The number of different images has dramatically increased since then and now we have a picture for every mood or situation. | 
