If the adoration¹ of cute baby animals could be converted into electricity, the world would finally have a clean source of renewable energy, and all war would end. Unfortunately, that's not possible, and instead we just have to come up with new words to describe these tiny, precious things. Enter "smol," a mutated spelling of "small" that provides inflection and tone. 

如果对蠢萌小动物的喜爱能转化成电力，那么全世界就能拥有一种可再生的清洁能源，所有的战争也将结束。可惜，这是不可能的。我们能做的只是想出一些新的词语来描述这些小小的，惹人怜爱的小家伙。于是，由英文单词small衍生出的smol就出现了，这个词能表达出对小动物的所有喜爱情绪。

 

First used to describe a childish member of a boy band, smol came into vogue² as a creature descriptor on Twitter and Tumblr in 2015 and brought with it an entirely³ bizarre new way to baby-talk about the animal kingdom. Those outside of the trend were either incredibly confused or brutally⁴ annoyed, but smol continues to be used widely as a way to make sure everyone knows that the animal you are describing is not just cute, but awwdowable.

Smol这个词最初被用来形容某男孩团体中的一个小鲜肉，后来在推特和轻博客Tumblr上被广泛用来形容小动物，并且因此形成潮流，成为大人们卖萌描述小动物时常用的一个新奇手法。不了解这个潮流的人可能会对这个词的走红感到困惑甚至厌烦，可是，smol这个词依然被广泛使用，好像就是要让每个人都知道他们用smol形容的这个小动物有多么的萌萌萌......

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