Top ten word lists of 2003
美国网络词典门户网站发布了2003年流行英语词汇Top 10排行榜。
Top Ten
Words of 2003
Embedded (潜伏) |
News correspondents embedded in military
units suggested to many that news correspondents were in bed with the
military. |
Blog (网络日记) |
Web logs have come of age and, regrettably,
this lexical mutation with them. |
SARS (严重急性呼吸道症候群) |
Farm animals strike back at the humans who
eat them again with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. |
Spam (垃圾邮件) |
This old word now refers to a plague
contending with SARS for destructive potential. |
Taikonaut (太空飞行员) |
The Chinese astronaut proved that China is
a rising industrial power. |
Bushism
(布什主义) |
This word now has a real possibility for
remaining in the language. |
Allision (撞上一个不能移动的物体) |
U.S. National Transportation and Safety
Board in investigating the Staten Island ferry tragedy concluded it wasn't
a collision (between two moving objects) but an allision (a crash with an
immoveable object) |
Recall (罢免) |
As in California Recall that resulted in
the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Governator |
Middangeard (中等危险) |
Middle English for Middle Earth in the
movies of Tolkien's trilogy, still fascinating millions around the world
with its characters and insights into the origins of the English
language. |
Celibacy (独身生活) |
The word which holds the key to ending the
seemingly eternal scandal of the US Catholic Church. |
Top Ten Phrases of
2003
Shock-and-Awe (震慑行动) |
Remember the initial strategy of the Iraqi
War? There was probably more of this when we watched Saddam Hussein emerge
from his 'spider-hole.' |
Rush to
War (仓促上战场) |
Something the US was accused of by our
allies and the slogan of liberals attacked by Limbaugh. |
Tire
Pressure (轮胎压力) |
Announced the imminent
disintegration of the Space Shuttle. |
Weapons of Mass
Destruction (大规模杀伤性武器) |
The reason given for
the Rush to War. Removing a genocidal maniac wasn't reason enough?
|
16
Words |
"The British
government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant
quantities of uranium from Africa." |
Guantanamo
Bay (关塔那摩湾) |
The US Justice and
Defense Departments thought they would "Gitmo" cooperation from suspected
terrorists off shore. |
Spider-Hole (蜘蛛洞) |
Looks like this one is
going to stick around for a while: Sen. Lieberman is already accusing
Howard Dean of 'crawling into a spider-hole of denial'. |
Tipping
Point |
When any topic moves
from one level to the next or the state of a politician one word away from
falling flat on his face. |
Angry
Left |
The early followers of
Howard Dean seem to have frightened him to the center. |
Halliburton
Energy Services |
Vice President
Cheney's old company was supplying our fighting men and women with fuel at
enlightened prices before the dust settled in Iraq (if it has settled
yet). | |