美國文化脫口秀 第275期:2015牛津年度十大新詞

今年牛津收錄了哪些新單詞?從emoji, 到lumbersexual, 快聽節(jié)目學習這些熱詞吧。

The Oxford Word of the Year: 牛津年度熱詞

It's just as important as text itself:它和文字一樣重要

It's been around since the 90's: emoji這個詞90年代就有了

The reason emoji was selected: emoji這個詞當選的原因

Loanword/borrowed word:外來詞(從外語輸入本國語言的詞)

The usage of emoji has gone up a lot this year: 表情符號本身的使用頻率大幅增長

Selection committee: 評選委員會

They chose emoji because it has replaced the use of text itself: 他們選擇emoji因為表情符號的使用已經(jīng)開始取代文字本身

Happy face: 笑臉

Sad face:苦臉

Face with tears of joy: 淚中帶笑的表情符號

Subtlety: 精妙之處

Interpret: 解釋、理解

2015牛津年度十大新詞

除了emoji, 以下這些新詞、熱詞也進入了牛津的榜單：

The Oxford Shortlist 其它上榜詞匯

Lumbersexual (noun): a person who is sexy in a rugged lumberjack way. 伐木工性感范兒。形容不修邊幅卻性感的男人。

例句: Daniel Craig is a lumbersexual.

Rugged:不修邊幅的

Metrosexual: 幾年前的熱詞，形容愛打扮、精致的花樣美男。

Lumberjack: 伐木工

Bushy beard: 大胡子

2. They (noun): describes a person of unspecified sex. 形容一個性別不容易分辨的人，看上去既像男的，又像女的。為了避免冒犯他/她，就可以用'they'來形容這個人。注意，這個詞這里是形容單數(shù)、一個人。

例句: Is that a man or a woman? I don't know. It's a they.

3. Brexit (noun): Britain possiblly exits the European Union. 英國可能退出歐盟。

例句: Should Britian make a Brexit?

4. Sharing economy (noun): an economic system in which assets or services are shared between individuals, either for free or for a fee, typically by means of the internet. 共享經(jīng)濟。

另外有個常用的類似概念：the Uberization of the economy (優(yōu)步模式經(jīng)濟)

5. Refugee (noun): a person who is forced to leave their country to escape war, persecution or natural disasters 難民。

媒體常提refugee crisis: 難民危機

6. Ad blocker (noun): A piece of software that prevents advertisements from appearing on a web page. 廣告過濾軟件。

7. The dark web (noun): the part of the internet only accessible by a special piece of software. 暗網(wǎng)。

8. On fleek (adjective): extremely good, attractive or stylish. 潮、有范兒。

例句: You're looking on fleek today.