时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:2018年NPR美国国家公共电台1月


英语课

 


RAY SUAREZ, HOST:


Staying on the topic of words of the year, let's talk about one of the winners from two years ago - emoji - you know, those little cartoon-like pictures. One of the things to look forward to in 2018 is that dozens of new emojis will be unveiled. One of the most popular additions - redheads.


JEREMY BURGE: Red hair, yeah. People felt like they were getting left out.


SUAREZ: That's Jeremy Burge. We reached him at his home in London. He's vice-chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee - yes, that's a real thing. He also runs a website called Emojipedia, devoted 1 to every minute change that has happened to the 2,600 emojis over the years.


BURGE: This is what I do - emojis from when I wake up until when I go to bed.


SUAREZ: Burge is responsible for the new emoji with red hair.


BURGE: Even though I don't have red hair myself, that was the No. 1 request we got for the last two years running, so I felt like I should step up and try and make that happen.


SUAREZ: The committee looks at all the proposed additions and winnows 2 down the list, in part based on how useful they expect the new emoji to be. So far this year, three proposed emojis didn't make the cut.


BURGE: A face with question marks over the eyes, a face that had the letters O and K over the eyes and pile of poo version that was frowning rather and smiling.


SUAREZ: Michael Everson was one of the impassioned commenters who helped kill the frowning excrement 3. We reached him on Skype about an hour west of Dublin.


MICHAEL EVERSON: Why do we need to send a picture of this? It's just - ah. It's just offensive - needlessly offensive and pointless. It's not cute. It's not funny. It isn't good in any particular way. I don't mind lobster 4, parrot, peacock, badger 5 - these are good. These are fine. But is there to be an end of it? Could we not have any class?


SUAREZ: Well, if you're looking for class, there's also a cupcake, a superhero, a llama and a teddy bear. Now that's something to smiley face about.



1 devoted
adj.忠诚的,忠实的,热心的,献身于...的
  • He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
  • We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
2 winnows
v.扬( winnow的第三人称单数 );辨别;选择;除去
  • A wise king winnows the wicked and drives the wheel over them. 智慧的王簸散恶人,用碌碡滚轧他们。 来自互联网
  • A wise king winnows the wicked, And drives the threshing wheel over them. 箴20:26智慧的王、簸散恶人、用碌碡辊轧他们。 来自互联网
3 excrement
n.排泄物,粪便
  • The cage smelled of excrement.笼子里粪臭熏人。
  • Clothing can also become contaminated with dust,feathers,and excrement.衣着则会受到微尘、羽毛和粪便的污染。
4 lobster
n.龙虾,龙虾肉
  • The lobster is a shellfish.龙虾是水生贝壳动物。
  • I like lobster but it does not like me.我喜欢吃龙虾,但它不适宜于我的健康。
5 badger
v.一再烦扰,一再要求,纠缠
  • Now that our debts are squared.Don't badger me with them any more.我们的债务两清了。从此以后不要再纠缠我了。
  • If you badger him long enough,I'm sure he'll agree.只要你天天纠缠他,我相信他会同意。
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acute dialysis
ageing of cathode
allantoic veins
Ancid
Andance
antifrosting agent
armbinder
asbestos putty
assert a maritime claim
availability sampling
azacyclopropane
capacity of being stained
Capt.
category (soil)
Cerenkov laser
Chamelife
chaotic laser light
Cisjordania
clocks on
cloth coverings
coral-snake
cotyledonary trace
dering
dilute sewage
dirgeful
ditch compost
dorium
double bottom center
echolocalization
enneastyle building
estocada
Euzoniella
failure of issue
functional model of memory
gas channeling
hair-on leather
Hassler method
high-energy bremsstrahlung
horned chameleons
housekeeping program
in loose order
inclined stacking
inert-gas shielded arc welding
inferior palpebral veins
intermediate frequency gain
involuntary
irreversible charge
jazireh
kerfs
laser irradiated surface
make peace
melarhyodacite
mint geraniums
moddel
monocrystalline semiconductor
murkest
not have a farthing
nrl
nuclear science
Obaix
oberea taihokensis
obvelation
onomously
ophi
pellicularia filamentosas
permanent denture
pile cylinder pier
pluse voltage multiplier
reduced distribution function
relieving ring
rivalties
Rochester
saracens
save value
setting poles
shnorr
short term scheduling
shrivelled
skidder-loader
smell of the lamp
Song of Songs
special spindle oil
spodogram
student employment
subacute infective endocarditis
sweep device
talk you up
tans(e)y
technical control board
think box
thirstinesses
tropo
unvapourised
use definition chaining equation
vulgarizers
waking hours
wash thickener
WINDSAT
wireless engineering
withdrawalists
work organization
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