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
a plume of smoke
adjusted income
Alkilon
amblyopia crapulosa
ampere capacity
Anatomia clinica
antinepotistic
as free as the air
ASC (automatic sequence control)
bentched
Bonaparte, Mount
bottom dead center
box staff
break out friction
buffer storage hopper
callirhoe involucratas
card punch and reader
centipede sting
cerein
coccidologists
coextensiveness
counter rotating propellers
covit
daily valuation
DB, db
deutschemarks
dietellae
diffhse myelitis
disassemblers
drilling and screwing machine
egg-associateds
embers
energy eigenstate
eplerenone
fabric rope scouring machine
family umbelliferaes
file association
fishery genesiology
five flavors
flat counter
footage measurement of roadway
friction rub
funtion multiplier
give sb the cut direct
global data base
glycerinum acidi borici
guydi
have no head for sth
hunt clubs
in taste
inisling
interactive restructuring
jecca
jerboa
juarezs
Konyavska Planina
law of comparative judgement
learner's permit
low-weight
Magnoliales
main drive gear bearing oil slinger
melolonthoid
multifunctional robot
nailbombs
nasal angle of the eye
net payoff
non vults
nonpractitioners
North Atlantic Free trade
nuclear proliferation
one-goal
Paget's disease of vulva
percentage of success
perfervidly
phosphoacceptor
pigmented basal cell carcinoma
pressure signal
pressure-sensitive geophone
procedural error
puttying
Rapanea kwangsiensis
reader-awareness
real-time data reduction
rearward c.g. stalling speed
scaly winged
Sepher Torah
set of basic standards
short loan
side pull lay
sitting height
squab pie
stevinson
stopping signal
surface of action
ternately compound leaf
the Royal Military Academy
unconjunctive
vibrographs
virilio
wheest
white cow
wrawls