你想過沒 韋氏詞典是怎樣收錄歷年新詞的？

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During last year’s presidential debates, and through this year’s inauguration, Merriam-Webster has been an active presence on Twitter, sharing words experiencing an uptick in search, or funny, relevant trivia.

在去年總統(tǒng)競選辯論以及今年的就職典禮期間,，韋氏詞典一直在推特上很活躍,，分享著那些搜索量增加的詞匯或是一些相關(guān)趣事。

You might even say the dictionary provided a safe space on social media, or “a place (as on a college campus) intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations.”

你可能會說這本詞典在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上提供了一個安全空間,，或“一個（像大學(xué)校園一樣的）場所,，（那里）沒有偏見、沖突,、指責(zé),，或是潛在的危險活動,，可以自由地交流思想或進(jìn)行對話,。”

It’s fitting, then, that “safe space” is among the 1,000 new additions Merriam-Webster made to its online dictionary today. The word was first used in 1970, and has been used by colleges post-election to describe themselves as campuses that will protect students who might feel in danger due to their religious beliefs, sexual orientation, race or gender.

后來,，韋氏詞典就把“safe space”（安全空間）這個詞收錄到現(xiàn)今在線詞典的1000個新增詞條中,，這也是十分恰當(dāng)?shù)摹?970年，這個詞被第一次使用,，大選后,，大學(xué)就用這個詞來稱自己為“保護(hù)那些因個人宗教信仰、性取向,、種族或性別而感到危險的學(xué)生的校園”,。

Not all of the added words have been around for decades. Some of them, like “binge-watch” and “photobomb,” are products of newer technologies, but saw big spikes in recent use.

不是所有的新增詞匯都已使用了幾十年,。像“binge-watch”（刷劇）和“photobomb”（照片**）這樣的一些詞匯是新興技術(shù)的產(chǎn)物,，而最近其使用率迅速增長,。

In an announcement, Merriam-Webster explained its methodology: “In some cases, terms have been observed for years and are finally being added; in others, the fast rise and broad acceptance of a term has made for a quicker journey.”

在一則聲明中，韋氏詞典解釋了它的方法論：“在某些情況下,，一些詞被觀察多年,，最后被收錄到新詞中；在其他情況下,，一個詞,，其使用率迅速增長，且被廣泛接受,，這個詞就會更快地被收入詞典中,。”

In a statement to The Huffington Post, Merriam-Webster’s editor-at-large Peter Sokolowski added that the words announced today were added to the dictionary’s digital pages. “The online dictionary gives us both more space to expand entries and a way to add them more quickly,” he said.

在發(fā)給赫芬頓郵報的一則聲明中,，韋氏詞典的特約編輯彼得·索科洛夫斯基補(bǔ)充道,，如今發(fā)表的新詞被添加到字典的數(shù)字頁面中�,！霸诰�詞典既為我們提供了更多的空間來擴(kuò)展詞條,，又為我們提供了一個迅速補(bǔ)充詞條的方法�,！�

Other entries are updates of pre-existing words, such as “ghost” used as an informal verb, and “train wreck” used metaphorically to describe “an utter disaster or mess.”

其他詞條是對現(xiàn)有詞匯的更新,，如“ghost”（悄悄地行進(jìn)）這個詞被用作一個非正式的動詞，而“train wreck”則被比喻為“一場徹底的災(zāi)難或混亂”,。

The new additions come from medicine, sports, literature, fashion, politics and technology. One even comes from the name of a prolific word inventor — “Seussian,” meaning “suggestive of the works of Dr. Seuss.”

新增詞匯出自醫(yī)藥,、運(yùn)動、文學(xué),、時尚,、政治以及技術(shù)領(lǐng)域。甚至還有一個詞匯出自一個富有創(chuàng)造力的詞匯發(fā)明家的名字,，“Seussian”,，意為“瑟斯博士提出的詞匯”。(滬江英語)