bottle cap challenge
瓶盖挑战
The bottle cap challenge is a new viral trend where people spin off a bottle cap usually with a spinning kick.
The challenge took off a few days ago, and the #bottlecapchallenge hashtaghasalready hadover 27,000 thousand posts on Instagram.
First started by a taekwondo champion and then picked up in the world of mixed martial arts, the #BottleCapChallenge has started to attract many a Chinese star.
率先发起“瓶盖挑战”的
哈萨克斯坦跆拳道冠军法拉比·达莱钦
（Farabi Davletchin）
On the microblogging platform Sina Weibo, the hashtag #PinggaiTiaozhan (#瓶盖挑战) sparked over 100,000 discussions and was viewed 400 million times.
hashtag 话题标签
Hashtag原本指“井号（#）”，在社交媒体平台多用来标注某个话题，也称为“话题标签”。微博上常见的一些跟话题相关的功能有：热搜榜（most searched hashtags）、热门话题榜（most popular hashtags）等。
如果要表达“某个话题在微博上疯传”就可以用很经典的句式the hashtag went viral on Weibo来表示。
The challenge requires participants tountwist a bottle cap from a bottle using aback-spin kick only.
While many Chinese netizens believed that no one would be able to beat Hollywood action star Jason Statham at the challenge,Hong Kong martial arts superstar Donnie Yen Zidan, 55, managed it, whileblindfolded.
Yen shared a video of himself on Sina Weibo on Wednesday in which heshowed off his impressive martial arts skills by popping off a bottle cap while blindfolded. He then finished the move with his Ip Man kung fu stance.
participants(参与者，参加者）
untwist a bottle cap（拧开瓶盖）
back-spin kick（转身后踹）
Hong Kong martial arts superstar（功夫巨星）
blindfolded.（蒙住眼睛的）
showed off（展示，炫耀）
After watching Yen gracefully knock off the bottle cap without even being able to see it, it was clear that a champion had emerged（冠军已经出现/诞生了）,commented one netizen, whose opinion represented the views of many other commentators.The trending topic "Yen Zidan's Bottle Cap Challenge" has been viewed more than 60 million times as of press time.
Inspired by Yen, many netizens posted their own challenge videos, some successful, some less so.
While most netizens were crazy about mastering the game, famous Chinesecomedian Pan Changjiang raised eyebrows in an unexpected way. The video featuring Pan shows him failing to kick off the cap, and then twisting off the cap with his hands, whichamused netizens.
Many other Chinese celebrities including Taiwan singer Jay Chou's wife Kun Ling (Hannah Quinlivan) and Chinese mixed martial artist Zhang Weili also gamely accepted the challenge.
comedian（喜剧演员）
raised eyebrows（使吃惊，引人注目）
amused netizens.（使网民大笑/把网民逗乐了）
除了上面这些明星，还有周杰伦、谢霆锋、潘玮柏、卢靖姗、吴谨言等明星也纷纷加入了#瓶盖挑战#的队伍中。
其中，画风最清奇的大概就是我们的杰伦小公举了↓↓
用银行卡凌空击掉瓶盖，超酷的。
The most impressive trick would be the one done by Jay Chou the Chinese popular singer who flashed a bank card swiftly to unscrew a bottle cap successfully.
还po出一段早年自己拍摄《青蜂侠》的影片，表示“瓶盖挑战”早就是自己玩过的梗了。
He even posted a clip of the movie “The Green Hornet” which he took part in 8 years ago, showing that this bottle cap challange is not a new game.
视频中，周董直接用手旋飞两个瓶盖，画面超酷炫，几乎可以想象出老周翻出这段视频时的傲娇表情了。
随着该挑战在社交媒体的火爆，很多网友也加入到了其中。自导自演了一些令人捧腹的版本。
As the challenge is going viral in social media, lots of netizens have got involved and posted some truly hilarious entries directed and acted by their own.
哈哈哈哈哈哈笑到头掉！
网友点评：这才是妇联内战爆发的真正原因叭？
不晓得是哪个人才，还给瓶子弄了个复仇版！
哈哈哈哈哈让你们人类天天踢我！我也要踢回来！
It’s “spinning” out of control on the Internet right now!! How many attempts do you think you need before you can successfully complete this challenge?
这就是现在在网上最红的
螺旋踢“瓶盖挑战”。
你觉得你能做到吗？？？
