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
acid resisting brick
aerial infection
andreev
angle fron
architectural ornaments
automatic calling (in a data network)
bipolymer
blowesses
casual loss
cavitation core
cimifugol
contorts
conveyor head roll
core shooting
corer
cramdown
cross the Bar
crystallographic symmetry
cut-off frequency
cyathus striatus
damp course
data input unit
Delatest
demon-king
DLS
dog mark
downy ash
Doylist
driftlessness
drop type fuse link
ebil
electrochemical etching
electrooptic(al) material
elims
ELLOBIIDAE
entolomas
finite setting time
flews
full information maximum likelihood estimation
gas pressure-regulating station
gaudiest
gravity thickener
grouped joint
gunpoke
gym-rat
hardness test(ing)
healme
heterophil
hold hands
humdrummeries
hydrodynamically
impacted school district
interim certificate
joint action by the contracting parties
key entry
light economic structure
Lippmann's capillary electrometer
Lucky Lake
mail cover
margarins
metaling bar
Min of Ag
Mollugo nudicaulis
month calendar control
motorbiking
netmask
neutral humus
nibur
nine times out of ten
nonparametric test
object signing
off the book payment
op. cit
operating personnel error
ox gall
papyritious
platform independence
pleonectite
PLGB
Pyrolaxonum
rasks
sarplys
secondary optimization problem
semi-average
shunted interpole
shuttle receiver box
solid circle
spiral plate exchanger
staphylococcus vaccine
sub-deans
synperiodic
tethered submersible
throw a sickie
trans-quantitative method
type of work
universal radial drilling machine
unless otherwise specified (UOS)
vampira
Vinnitsa
water supply tank
WEI (World Environment Institute)
xillix