话题14 热词（凡尔赛文学 盲盒）-2020-2021学年高一期末复习热点话题阅读与题型专练（通用版）

2020-2021学年高一期末复习热点话题阅读14 话题：热词（凡尔赛文学盲盒） 【1】 A competition making up Versailles literature was launched on Sina Weibo recently. So what is Versailles literature? Actually, the term has nothing to do with the French palace nor with literature. It came from The Rose of Versailles, a Japanese manga series about aristocratic (贵族化的) life at the palace of Versailles in France in the late 18th century, and was coined by a Chinese influencer earlier this year. Known as humblebragging, it is a boast (吹牛) disguised as a complaint. “I have too many houses. How can I decide which one to decorate?” and “I thought I lost weight this morning. So disappointed when I realized it was because I took off the huge diamond ring my boyfriend gave me last night” are some examples of Versailles literature. The intention is to show off --- usually things of materialistic values, yet one ought to pretend that’s not the point. As the 19th century English author Jane Austen famously wrote, “Nothing is more deceit