The New York Times:

In three short years, TikTok has grown in the public imagination from an app for dancing teens into an all-purpose cultural powerhouse, driving trends in music, food, news and politics, and changing the way people communicate online. In the process, it’s also become something else: a place where people buy things. Lots of them.

生词短语：

app

应用程序

teen

13-19岁的青少年

all-purpose

通用型的

powerhouse

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