拿到题目一看，我首先想到的是何为流行文化———是电视剧、广告？还是流行歌、电影、畅销书？
When I got the title, I first thought about what is pop culture - TV series and advertisements? Or pop songs, movies, Bestsellers?
不可否认，流行文化对于我们青少年的吸引极大，虽然我对流行文化本身没有任何热爱，比如说有些畅销书，我认为都是粗制滥造的文化快餐，再比如说那些在台上咿咿呀呀的流行歌手，这些在我看来我简直可以用“恶俗”来形容。
It's undeniable that pop culture attracts our teenagers a lot. Although I don't have any love for pop culture itself, for example, some best-selling books, I think they are all made of rough cultural fast food, for example, those pop singers babbling on the stage, which in my opinion can be described as "vulgar".
伴随着社会的变化，流行文化全方位地影响了我们的生活，似乎成为这个社会当中主流的、强有力的东西，在我们当代生活中无所不在。它深刻地影响着我们的生活，构建着我们的文化，可以这样说，它影响着一代又一代的人，这一代又一代的人有些开始成为这个社会的主流，可是喂养他们长大的这些流行文化却处在一个尴尬的状态当中。说实话，我们沉浸在周杰伦字句不清的音乐声中，沉浸在那些速食文化中，我们受流行文化的影响比那些经典文化要大得多。
With the change of society, popular culture has influenced our life in an all-round way. It seems to be the mainstream and powerful thing in this society, which is ubiquitous in our contemporary life. It has a profound impact on our lives, building our culture, so to speak, it has an impact on generations of people, generations of people have begun to become the mainstream of this society, but the popular culture that feeds them has been in an awkward state. To be honest, we are immersed in Jay Chou's ambiguous music and fast food culture. We are much more influenced by popular culture than those classic cultures.
流行文化的声色感受，流行文化的直观刺激，流行文化的绚丽形式，在当代青少年生活中无处不在地影响着年轻一代，它们巧妙地、不失时机地迎合了身心未定的、缺乏判断能力的青少年。它们制造着一种如泡泡糖一般的快乐，我们这一代人从未经历风雨，尚未步出教室，哪里领悟社会的繁杂？尚未经历困苦，哪里体味人世的辛酸？尚未健全自己的文化取向，哪里能知所归趋，做出正确的选择？我们完全束手无策，只得任其摆布。老师讲课，往往拿出一摞书，大谈特谈唐诗、宋词、元曲和明清小说，一股脑地灌输给我们经典文化，其实我回到家却去看《大话西游》、去看日剧韩流，去听后街男孩、孙燕姿。我们欣赏并且喜爱这样的文化，觉得它给我提供快乐，虽然只是一种简单的快乐。它们构造了我的情感方式、我的价值观念、我的生活方式和我的向往。从某种意义上说，它对我的人生产生了影响。
The feeling of popular culture, the visual stimulation of popular culture and the gorgeous form of popular culture are influencing the young generation everywhere in the contemporary youth life. They cleverly and timely cater to the young people who are uncertain in body and mind and lack of judgment ability. They create a kind of happiness like bubble gum. Our generation has never experienced wind and rain, and has not yet stepped out of the classroom. Where can we understand the complexity of society? Have not yet experienced hardship, where to appreciate the bitterness of the world? Without a sound cultural orientation, where can we know the trend and make the right choice? We had no choice but to let it go. Teachers often take out a pile of books to talk about Tang poetry, Song Ci, Yuan Opera and novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties. In fact, when I come home, I go to see Dahua westward tour, Japanese drama and Korean current, and listen to backstreet boys and Stefanie Sun. We appreciate and love this culture and feel that it provides me with happiness, although it is just a simple happiness. They construct my emotional style, my values, my life style and my yearning. In a sense, it has an impact on my life.
当然，真正重要的是要去读那些厚重的、已经经过历史筛选的重要着作，它会在不知不觉当中，提高你、改善你、影响你。余秋雨说，只有经典，才能将辽阔的空间和漫长的时间浇灌给你，把历史上一切早已消逝的高贵灵魂的讯号传递给你，把一切的美丽和智慧对比着愚昧和丑陋一起呈现给你。
Of course, it's really important to read those heavy and important works that have been screened by history, which will unconsciously improve you, improve you and influence you. Yu Qiuyu said that only classics can irrigate vast space and long time for you, transmit to you the signal of all the noble souls that have long disappeared in history, and present to you all the beauty and wisdom compared with ignorance and ugliness.
流行文化作为一种现象，有它存在的理由。文化是大河，任何一个时代如果不能提供一个多元的文化，那么整个的文化大河就是一条死河、臭河。不过，作为青少年的我们仍然要多与经典文化同呼吸，共命运。
As a phenomenon, popular culture has its reasons. Culture is a big river. If any era can not provide a multi-cultural, then the whole cultural river is a dead River and a smelly river. However, as teenagers, we still have to breathe and share our destiny with classic culture.
