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Vocabulary:

1. ‘b站 - Bilbili

2. 动漫 – Cartoons, animation

3. 视频 - video

4. 内容 - content

5. 全 - （全面） - comprehensive

6. 用户 （用户们） - Users

7. 并且 （grammar point..and besides, furthermore)

8. 体验 – experience

9. 广告 - advertisements

10. 依旧 – as before, unchanged, still

11. 领域 – field, area, sphere, realms

12. 游戏 - game

13. 攻略 – strategy

14. 课程 – course, curriculum

15. 飞速 – at full speed

16. 搜索 – to search

17. 具体 - specific

18. 来源 – origin

19. 订阅费 – subscription fee

Bilibili,简称“B站”，被中国人认为是中国版的YouTube。

B站一开始只有动漫视频。因为内容很全，所以很受用户们的喜爱。

并且，为了保证好的用户体验，B站很早就有一个承诺：看视频永远没有广告。这一点B站做的比较好，现在在它上面看视频依旧是没有像YouTube那样的广告。后来B站开始有其他领域的内容，比如游戏攻略、英语课程等。

过去几年它飞速发展，越来越多的用户会来搜索自己感兴趣的视频。

如果看一些具体介绍的话，我们会发现B站其实和YouTube有很大的区别，比如游戏是B站收入的重要来源之一，而YouTube的重要收入来源是广告和订阅费.

Bilibili, jiǎnchēng “B zhàn”, bèi zhōngguó rén rènwéi shì zhōngguó bǎn de YouTube. B zhàn yī kāishǐ zhǐyǒu dòngmàn shìpín. Yīnwèi nèiróng hěn quán, suǒyǐ hěn shòu yong hù men de xǐ'ài. Bìngqiě, wèile bǎozhèng hǎo de yònghù tǐyàn,B zhàn hěn zǎo jiù yǒu yīgè chéngnuò: Kàn shìpín yǒngyuǎn méiyǒu guǎnggào. Zhè yīdiǎn B zhàn zuò de bǐjiào hǎo, xiànzài zài tā shàngmiàn kàn shìpín yījiù shì méiyǒu xiàng YouTube nàyàng de guǎnggào. Hòulái B zhàn kāishǐ yǒu qítā lǐngyù de nèiróng, bǐrú yóuxì gōnglüè, yīngyǔ kèchéng děng. Guòqù jǐ nián tā fēisù fāzhǎn, yuè lái yuè duō de yònghù huì lái sōusuǒ zìjǐ gǎn xìngqù de shìpín. Rúguǒ kàn yīxiē jùtǐ jièshào dehuà, wǒmen huì fāxiàn B zhàn qíshí hé YouTube yǒu hěn dà de qūbié, bǐrú yóuxì shì B zhàn shōurù de zhòngyào láiyuán zhī yī, ér YouTube de zhòngyào shōurù láiyuán shì guǎnggào hé dìngyuè fèi.

Bilibili, called "Station B" for short, is considered by the Chinese to be their version of YouTube. While Station B only had anime videos at the beginning, because of its comprehensive content, it is very popular among users.

Moreover, in order to ensure good user experience, Bilibili made a promise very early on: there will never be ads when watching videos. This is one of the well-done aspects of Station B. When watching videos on there even now, there are still no ads such as the ones on YouTube. Later, Station B began to have content in other realms, such as gaming strategy, English courses, etc.

It has developed rapidly in the past few years, and more and more users are searching for videos that interest them. If we look a little more closely, we will find that Bilibili is actually very different from YouTube. For example, games are one of the important sources of revenue for Bilibili, while YouTube's important sources of revenue are advertising and subscription fees.