Memes, they can be reproduced in large numbers as well.

模因，它们也可以被大量复制。

For memes, however, fidelity is not always so important.

然而，对于模因来说，准确性却不是很重要的因素。

The textbooks with online novels and memes are very boring.

那些有网络小说和表情包的教科书很无聊。

Funny memes can be seen almost everywhere in their textbooks.

在他们的教科书中，有趣的表情包几乎随处可见。

These memes have longevity because they are memorable for one reason or another.

这些模因之所以经久不衰，是因为它们由于某种原因而令人难忘。

By this definition, most of what you know, ideas, skills, stories, songs are memes.

根据这个定义，你所知道的大部分事物，包括想法、技能、故事和歌曲等，都是模因。

You must have seen the memes of singer Huang Zitao with his famous words, "I will not die easily."

你一定见过歌手黄子韬名言的表情包：“我不会轻易死去。”

Realizing that his classmates enjoyed online novels and memes, he decided to add those things to his notes.

意识到他的同学喜欢网络小说和表情包，他决定把这些东西添加到他的笔记中。

On the other hand, memes make online messaging chatting closer to real-life than just sending text messages.

另一方面，相比发短信，表情包使网上聊天更接近现实生活。

By analogy, memes also get replicated and in the process pass on cultural information from person to person, generation to generation.

以此类推，模因也被复制，并且在这个过程中，文化信息在人与人之间、代际之间进行传递。

The whole point of defining this familiar process as transmission of memes is so that we can explore its analogy with the transmission of genes.

将这个熟悉的过程定义为模因传播的关键是我们可以探索它与基因传播的类比。

Memes Stronger than Genes?

所以说文化基因比基因更强大？

Sometimes when people say, "Do memes exist?"

有时候人们问我，真的存在模因这东西吗？

The best memes are passed down through generations.

最佳的文化基因一代代传承。

Hallowed laws, regulations, standards and memes will evaporate.

神圣不可侵犯的法规、标准和文化基因都将不复存在。

Well, now how are we going to tell the good memes from the bad memes?

可是我们怎么去鉴别哪些是好的模因，哪些是坏的模因呢？

Hold and participate in online contests, challenges, blog carnivals and memes.

保持参与在线的竞赛，挑战，博客嘉年华和博客聚合(blog memes)。

Others will accept that genes are replicators but reject the idea of memes.

有些人会接受基因是一种复制因子但是反对媒母这个概念。

These memes are spreading around the world and they are wiping out whole cultures.

这些模因正在全世界范围内传播，并且大有吞噬我们原有文化之势。

They use the phrase "selfish memes" but still firmly reject memetics (Blackmore 2006).

他们虽然用了“自私的媒母”这个短语但是依然坚定反对媒母理论(Blackmore 2006)。

Nor could it have retained control of memes once they began evolving in their own right.

而且，一旦模因开始了自己的进化，那么它们将不会再受控制。

The Internet is the ultimate mating ground for ideas, the supreme lekking arena for memes.

因特网是思想观点的最终交流阵地，是迷因的最潜在的竞技场。

This copying is quite different from the way cells copy strands of DNA or humans copy memes.

这种复制与细胞DNA链的复制或者人类对媒母的复制大不相同。

Our peers are the selection pressure as we struggle to pass our memes on to the next generation.

当我们努力将自己的基因传给下一代的时候，我们的同类就是这个“选择”的压力。

They also kept track of so-called memes by identifying suddenly popular keywords or links to websites.

研究者还通过追踪所谓的即时动态信息（memes）来甄别那些突然流行起来的关键词或者网页连接。

You may further see what the other people are publishing in their Memes and repost everything you find.

您还可以看到其他人在他们的Meme上发布了什么，并可以转发您看到的任何内容。

Once our ancestors could imitate they created lots of memes that competed to use their brains for their own propagation.

当我们的祖先开始模仿之后他们创造出了很多的媒母，这些媒母又在人类的脑海中为它们自己的繁衍而竞争。

Pet ownership patterns have varied tremendously over time and across cultures and can resemble fads or infectious social memes.

时代和文化差异会让宠物豢养模式变得面目全非，这种模式与时尚潮流（或称之为传染性的社会文化基因）非常近似。