时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

 今年牛津收录了哪些新单词?从emoji, 到lumbersexual, 快听节目学习这些热词吧。


The Oxford 1 Word of the Year: 牛津年度热词
It's just as important as text itself:它和文字一样重要
It's been around since the 90's: emoji这个词90年代就有了
The reason emoji was selected: emoji这个词当选的原因
Loanword/borrowed word:外来词(从外语输入本国语言的词)
The usage of emoji has gone up a lot this year: 表情符号本身的使用频率大幅增长
Selection committee: 评选委员会
They chose emoji because it has replaced the use of text itself: 他们选择emoji因为表情符号的使用已经开始取代文字本身
Happy face: 笑脸
Sad face:苦脸
Face with tears of joy: 泪中带笑的表情符号
Subtlety 2: 精妙之处
Interpret: 解释、理解
2015牛津年度十大新词
除了emoji, 以下这些新词、热词也进入了牛津的榜单:
The Oxford Shortlist 其它上榜词汇
Lumbersexual (noun): a person who is sexy in a rugged 3 lumberjack way. 伐木工性感范儿。形容不修边幅却性感的男人。
例句: Daniel Craig is a lumbersexual.
Rugged:不修边幅的
Metrosexual: 几年前的热词,形容爱打扮、精致的花样美男。
Lumberjack: 伐木工
Bushy beard: 大胡子
2. They (noun): describes a person of unspecified sex. 形容一个性别不容易分辨的人,看上去既像男的,又像女的。为了避免冒犯他/她,就可以用'they'来形容这个人。注意,这个词这里是形容单数、一个人。
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. 英国可能退出欧盟。
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. 共享经济。
另外有个常用的类似概念:the Uberization of the economy (优步模式经济)
5. Refugee (noun): a person who is forced to leave their country to escape war, persecution 4 or natural disasters 难民。
媒体常提refugee crisis: 难民危机
6. Ad blocker (noun): A piece of software that prevents advertisements from appearing on a web page. 广告过滤软件。
7. The dark web (noun): the part of the internet only accessible by a special piece of software. 暗网。
8. On fleek (adjective): extremely good, attractive or stylish 5. 潮、有范儿。
例句: You're looking on fleek today.

n.牛津(英国城市)
  • At present he has become a Professor of Chemistry at Oxford.他现在已是牛津大学的化学教授了。
  • This is where the road to Oxford joins the road to London.这是去牛津的路与去伦敦的路的汇合处。
n.微妙,敏锐,精巧;微妙之处,细微的区别
  • He has shown enormous strength,great intelligence and great subtlety.他表现出充沛的精力、极大的智慧和高度的灵活性。
  • The subtlety of his remarks was unnoticed by most of his audience.大多数听众都没有觉察到他讲话的微妙之处。
adj.高低不平的,粗糙的,粗壮的,强健的
  • Football players must be rugged.足球运动员必须健壮。
  • The Rocky Mountains have rugged mountains and roads.落基山脉有崇山峻岭和崎岖不平的道路。
n. 迫害,烦扰
  • He had fled from France at the time of the persecution. 他在大迫害时期逃离了法国。
  • Their persecution only serves to arouse the opposition of the people. 他们的迫害只激起人民对他们的反抗。
adj.流行的,时髦的;漂亮的,气派的
  • He's a stylish dresser.他是个穿着很有格调的人。
  • What stylish women are wearing in Paris will be worn by women all over the world.巴黎女性时装往往会引导世界时装潮流。
学英语单词
'rickshaw
allel-
anticounseling
antigravitons
approximation conditioning
barf me out
break into pieces
Caesar's wives
caustic treatment
Colles fracture
collision hazards
Cona, L.
constant load rupture test
contrapolarization
datwyler
David Seaknoll
Dendrobium Sw.
different temperatures
dough salver
El Mezzouna
electro-mechanical computers
fomes annularis
forbis
free-cutting alloy
garter webbing
Gelting
glacifluvial
glassy diabase
grapper
hashing method
high frequency spark gap oscillator
hydraulic-motor
hypnotherapeutics
IATCT
ideal imperfect-crystal
isoecho
jorden
Khogot
Kosterёvo
laser detection
levelling beam
mid-parallel
midevening
mikelbank
Mohammadia
monotone sequence of number
nasal passage
nicotinamide methylkinase
Nolton
nontested
obstacle by passing
of gentle disposition
old-worldliness
orthopaedic-related
overlends
pale rosin
palmoplantar keratoderma
pederasty
pharyngeal anesthesia
plexus vertebralis
pre-dinner
problem incidence
proport
public service ethos
public welfare payment
put salt on a bird's tail
quasiferromagnet
quirkily
record access management
red trichomycosis
reversible magnetic ater effect
Rubus alexeterius
s peak
sector disk
seizing
semidefiniteness
service arm
simulated accident
slant-eyed
sleep dissociation
slowplay
stereophotogrammetry
symbolic virtual address
systemless
tetrahydrocannabinol(THC)
th-pb age determination method
The End
thermograph
thyrle
toxignomic
transverse parameters
triethanomelamine
trophic plasticity
troutman
twites
two-way value
ultrasonic method
utilising
wles
woman of the street
wyartite
zinc blende lattice