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For years the word “geek” had negative
1)connotations. You thought nerd, a 2)loner playing 3)board games at home with mum and wearing knitted 4)cardigans in the process. But not anymore.
For anyone unaware of Simon Pegg’s hit Spaced (as I know there are some who were 5)living under rocks at the time and have missed its cultural influence), Spaced focused on the lives of Tim and Daisy, who pretended to be a couple to have a lovely London flat. Made up of film 6)parodies and 7)bizarre plots, it has some very 8)hard-core fans (including myself) that spread the word and keep the show alive.
Spaced was ahead of its time, its main themes were geek culture and the 9)quarterlife crisis, the crisis that graduates were going through as they left university but had no clue what to do after it. TV and film have addressed these issues since, but Spaced was the first to use it with pop culture to create a truly great show based around the so-called geek culture.多年来，“极客”这个词有着负面的含义。你以前认为那就是个性格孤僻的书呆子，穿着针织羊毛衫在家里和妈妈一起玩棋类游戏。然而，情况已今非昔比。总会有人没看过西蒙·佩吉的热片《屋事生非》（因为我知道当时总有些人不闻世事，错过了该作品的文化影响），《屋事生非》讲述了蒂姆和黛西为了得到一所温馨的伦敦公寓而假装成情侣的故事。该电视作品由诙谐的影视模仿和怪诞的剧情组成，已经有了一些铁杆“粉丝”（包括我自己在内），粉丝们四处推广该剧，使其保持着活力。
《屋事生非》走在了时代的前列，它的主题是极客文化和青年危机。所谓的青年危机是指大学生毕业后不知道自己要做什么时所经历的危机。自从这些问题被提出以来，不管是电视作品还是电影作品都涉及过此类主题，但是《屋事生非》首创性地用流行文化来诠释该主题，围绕着所谓的“极客文化”创造出了一部真正伟大的电视作品。
In my opinion, this rise of geek culture can only be a terrific thing. People aren’t so afraid to be themselves anymore, and of all the worlds to be a part of, the geek world is the most accepting. We can smell a fake geek that’s 14)jumped on the bandwagon a mile off, and we don’t always like it, but we accept it regardless.
The problem is geeks have been given a new image, a cooler image, a more acceptable to the masses image. Although this is probably a good thing, I can’t help but think this almost sells out the origins of geek and changes it into something mainstream to the point where it’s not itself anymore. It’s started to become a parody of itself, something if Spaced was still around it would have picked up on.
Geek is a not an image or an idea, it’s something you are. It has its own culture, and we are proud to be a part of it. In our own awkward way of course.
在我看来，这种极客文化的崛起就是一件了不起的事情。人们不再那么害怕展现真实的自己了，在世界各种领域之中，极客领域是最具包容性的。我们可以在一英里之外就闻出跟风的伪极客的气息，虽然我们不总是喜欢他们，但我们毫不在意地接受了他们。
问题是极客已被赋予了新的形象，一种更酷、更易被群众接受的形象。虽然这可能是一件好事，但我不得不想，这几乎违背了极客的起源而变成了一种主流的东西，不再是原本的极客了。它已经开始成为自身的拙劣模仿，如果《屋事生非》还继续播出的话，一定也会信手拈来。
怪胎不是一种形象或一种想法，它就是你自己的本质。它有自己的文化，我们因为能成为其中一份子而感到自豪。当然，是以我们自己笨拙的方式。
1)connotations. You thought nerd, a 2)loner playing 3)board games at home with mum and wearing knitted 4)cardigans in the process. But not anymore.
For anyone unaware of Simon Pegg’s hit Spaced (as I know there are some who were 5)living under rocks at the time and have missed its cultural influence), Spaced focused on the lives of Tim and Daisy, who pretended to be a couple to have a lovely London flat. Made up of film 6)parodies and 7)bizarre plots, it has some very 8)hard-core fans (including myself) that spread the word and keep the show alive.
Spaced was ahead of its time, its main themes were geek culture and the 9)quarterlife crisis, the crisis that graduates were going through as they left university but had no clue what to do after it. TV and film have addressed these issues since, but Spaced was the first to use it with pop culture to create a truly great show based around the so-called geek culture.多年来，“极客”这个词有着负面的含义。你以前认为那就是个性格孤僻的书呆子，穿着针织羊毛衫在家里和妈妈一起玩棋类游戏。然而，情况已今非昔比。总会有人没看过西蒙·佩吉的热片《屋事生非》（因为我知道当时总有些人不闻世事，错过了该作品的文化影响），《屋事生非》讲述了蒂姆和黛西为了得到一所温馨的伦敦公寓而假装成情侣的故事。该电视作品由诙谐的影视模仿和怪诞的剧情组成，已经有了一些铁杆“粉丝”（包括我自己在内），粉丝们四处推广该剧，使其保持着活力。
《屋事生非》走在了时代的前列，它的主题是极客文化和青年危机。所谓的青年危机是指大学生毕业后不知道自己要做什么时所经历的危机。自从这些问题被提出以来，不管是电视作品还是电影作品都涉及过此类主题，但是《屋事生非》首创性地用流行文化来诠释该主题，围绕着所谓的“极客文化”创造出了一部真正伟大的电视作品。
In my opinion, this rise of geek culture can only be a terrific thing. People aren’t so afraid to be themselves anymore, and of all the worlds to be a part of, the geek world is the most accepting. We can smell a fake geek that’s 14)jumped on the bandwagon a mile off, and we don’t always like it, but we accept it regardless.
The problem is geeks have been given a new image, a cooler image, a more acceptable to the masses image. Although this is probably a good thing, I can’t help but think this almost sells out the origins of geek and changes it into something mainstream to the point where it’s not itself anymore. It’s started to become a parody of itself, something if Spaced was still around it would have picked up on.
Geek is a not an image or an idea, it’s something you are. It has its own culture, and we are proud to be a part of it. In our own awkward way of course.
在我看来，这种极客文化的崛起就是一件了不起的事情。人们不再那么害怕展现真实的自己了，在世界各种领域之中，极客领域是最具包容性的。我们可以在一英里之外就闻出跟风的伪极客的气息，虽然我们不总是喜欢他们，但我们毫不在意地接受了他们。
问题是极客已被赋予了新的形象，一种更酷、更易被群众接受的形象。虽然这可能是一件好事，但我不得不想，这几乎违背了极客的起源而变成了一种主流的东西，不再是原本的极客了。它已经开始成为自身的拙劣模仿，如果《屋事生非》还继续播出的话，一定也会信手拈来。
怪胎不是一种形象或一种想法，它就是你自己的本质。它有自己的文化，我们因为能成为其中一份子而感到自豪。当然，是以我们自己笨拙的方式。