Seven or eight years ago, a new kind of televisual(电视的) entertainment was born in China. Microdramas: over-the-top, soap opera-type series with splashy, schlocky premises such as infidelity, arranged marriage and secret billionairehood, in which each episode is a mere 60-90 seconds long, took off there among an audience of the phone-addicted.(微短剧：情节夸张、肥皂剧式的剧集，以出轨、包办婚姻、秘密亿万富翁身份等花哨俗套的设定为卖点，每集仅60到90秒，在手机成瘾的观众中迅速走红。)
七八年前，中国诞生了一种新的电视娱乐形式。微短剧：情节夸张、肥皂剧式的剧集，以出轨、包办婚姻、秘密亿万富翁身份等花哨俗套的设定为卖点，每集仅60到90秒，在手机成瘾的观众中迅速走红。
And now, as with many cultural phenomena that start in China, microdramas have made it over here. The form is forecast(预测) to take in(获得（收入）) $1.5bn in revenue(收入) in the US by the end of this year. Channel 4 announced recently that it was launch(推出)ing its first microdrama, and the UK is already leading Europe in terms of(在……方面) microdrama-watching, with 8.2 million of us tuning in to these things every month.
如今，正如许多发源于中国的文化现象一样，微短剧也传到了我们这里。据预测，到今年年底，这一形式在美国的收入将达到15亿美元。第四频道最近宣布将推出其首部微短剧，而英国在微短剧观看方面已经领跑欧洲，每月有820万英国人收看这些内容。
Numbers such as this give me a queasy, vertiginous feeling about the vast difference in possible human experiences existing alongside each other at the same time.(这样的数字让我感到一阵恶心和眩晕，因为人类可能同时经历着如此巨大的差异。) What do you mean, millions and millions of people are watching this stuff that seems, to me, catastrophically brainless and objectively bad?(你什么意思，数以百万计的人在观看这种在我看来极其无脑、客观上很糟糕的东西？) Who? What do they eat for breakfast? What do they dream of at night?
这样的数字让我感到一阵恶心和眩晕，因为人类可能同时经历着如此巨大的差异。你什么意思，数以百万计的人在观看这种在我看来极其无脑、客观上很糟糕的东西？谁在看？他们早餐吃什么？他们晚上梦到什么？