牛津的编辑们开始欢迎一批新的单词加入他们的语料库里,验证了年轻人的想法并且使老年人的生活少点困惑。
牛津词典,作为牛津大家族的一部分,关注于现代英语,在星期三宣称他们将添加一些最新的词汇。添加的方式是俳句的形式,在2014年能够反映人性的地方可以在以下地方体现到:超连通的hot mess。YOLO?FML.或者是:side boob。
Cray clickbait。Second screen。Live- tweet。Throw Shade。ICYML。
每一个新词都会进入牛津在线的数据库,这份数据库会收集一些现在使用的词语。并且添加了一小部分的激起人们快乐的词语。
对于那些想用鹅毛笔写入羊皮纸文稿并且宣布英语语言的结束的人说一句,既然如此无聊的词语得到牛津的尊重,请记得这不是来自牛津英语词典的尊重。牛津词典作为牛津家族的一部分更像是一位严肃而充满智慧的祖父,它总是保留他对于年轻一代的肯定。换句话说,牛津英语词典的编辑者们在加词汇作为参考之前会更需要一些更具有历史性,更重要的一些词汇。
说明已经完成,接下来就来看看我们选的一些新词汇吧:
acquihire(名词):购买一个公司主要是基于公司内部员工的技能和特长。
adorbs(形容词):激起人们的高兴的感觉;可爱的或值得崇敬的
air punch(名词):将握紧的拳头朝向天空,代表一种胜利的姿势。
amazeballs(形容词):令人印象深刻,令人愉快的和富有吸引力的。
anti-vax(形容词):反对接种疫苗的。
等等许多新词(欲浏览更多新闻,请关注中国进出口网:www.Chinainout.com)
Oxford's editors have welcomed a new batch of words to their database, validating young people and making life less confusing for old people
Oxford Dictionaries, the arm of the Oxford family that focuses on current English, announced on Wednesday that they’ve added the latest batch of words to ranks. Put into haiku form, reflections of humanity in 2014 could easily look something like this:
Hyperconnected hot mess.
YOLO? FML.
Or this:
Side boob. Cray clickbait.
Second screen. Live-tweet. Throw shade.
ICYMI.
Yes, each of those is a new entry in Oxford’s online database that collects modern uses of words. And that’s just a small sample of the many adorbs (adj., arousing great delight) additions.
For all those who are ready to set their quills to parchment and declare the end of the English language, now that such frivolous terms are getting respect from Oxford, please keep in mind that this is not the Oxford English Dictionary. That arm of the family is more like the serious and intellectual grandfather who constantly withholds his approval from younger generations. In other words, the OED editors require words to have much more historical, significant impact before adding them to that reference.
Caveats made, here is a selection of Oxford Dictionaries’noobs:
acquihire (n.): buying out a company primarily for the skills and expertise of its staff.
adorbs (adj.): arousing great delight; cute or adorable.
air punch (n.): thrusting one’s clenched fist up into the air, typically as a gesture of triumph.
amazeballs (adj.): very impressive, enjoyable, or attractive.
anti-vax (adj.): opposed to vaccination.