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今天来跟大家聊一个东西叫做锦鲤。

锦鲤

锦鲤呢，就是koi fish。

它是一种鲤鱼，鲤鱼就是carp，carp fish。

所以它是鲤鱼的一种。

那为什么要聊到它呢？因为如果你有用中文来上一些网，比如微博之类的话，你可能经常会见到这个词叫做锦鲤。

有的时候大家会说转发锦鲤，转发就是repost。

转发锦鲤，哎，这个是什么意思呢？

锦鲤本身只是一种观赏鱼，观赏的意思，就是欣赏，就是看看这个东西有多好看。

观赏。

所以观赏鱼只是因为它外表非常的鲜艳，颜色很丰富，所以人们喜欢把这些锦鲤养在家里来看着它，觉得它美丽漂亮。

可是呢，它还有一层含义，就是大家认为锦鲤代表着好运，特别有运气。

所以呢，有的时候大家在网上面看到某一个人，他特别好运，那大家就会来转发。

把他当做一个非常好运的象征，好像锦鲤一样，来转发它，希望能把他的好运来带给自己。

所以转发锦鲤的意思，就是想要借由这个人的好运带给自己，让自己也能变好运的意思。

转发锦鲤。

有的时候我们会看到一个人，他啊，考试考得非常好。

然后他在网上面放了自己的成绩，大家可能会把他的成绩转发一下。

那有的时候，可能有一个人他中奖了，中了一个很大的奖，那大家可能在转发的时候，就会像开玩笑一样地说：“转发锦鲤～转发锦鲤”，希望自己也能沾沾好运。

Okay！那这边就是我们今天的内容了，关于锦鲤。

那我们下次再见吧，拜拜。

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English

Hi everyone, I'm your Mandarin teacher Nana.

Welcome to the latest episode of our podcast.

Today I want to talk to you about a thing called koi.

锦鲤 Koi

锦鲤 is koi fish.

It is a kind of carp. 鲤鱼 is the carp. Carp fish.

So it's a kind of carp.

So why talk about it? Because if you use Chinese on some websites, like Weibo, you might often see this word called koi

Sometimes people will say to repost koi. 转发 is to repost.

Reposting koi, ah, what does this mean?

Koi itself is just a kind of ornamental fish. 观赏's meaning is to appreciate; to see how good-looking this thing is.

观赏

So the ornamental fish, just because its appearance is very bright and rich in colour, people like to keep these kois at home and look at it, thinking it's beautiful.

However, it also has another layer of meaning. That is, people think that the koi represents good luck. With especial luck.

So, sometimes when people see someone on the Internet, that he's particularly lucky, then people will repost it.

Taking him as a symbol of good luck, like koi fish, and repost it, hoping to bring his good luck to oneself.

So the meaning of reposting koi is that you want to bring good luck to yourself by the person's good luck. It means making yourself lucky.

Reposting koi.

Sometimes, we will see a person, he, ah, he did very well on in the exam.

Then he posted his grades online. People might repost his results.

That sometimes, there may be a person who wins a prize. A big prize. When reposting, people may say jokingly: "reposting koi ~ reposting koi", hoping they can also be lucky.

Okay! That's all for today about koi.

I'll see you next time, bye-bye!