十年最具影響力英語詞google問鼎

2003Word of the Year:

　　metrosexual, fashion-conscious heterosexual male。

　　Most Useful: flexitarian, vegetarian who occasionally eats meat。

　　Most Creative: freegan, person who eats only free food。

　　Most Unnecessary:freedom for “French,” as in fries and kisses。

　　Most Outrageous: cliterati, feminist writers or leaders。

　　Most Euphemistic:pre-emptive self-defense, attack before a possible attack on oneself。

　　Most Likely to Succeed: SARS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, viral disease first reported in Asia in February。

　　Least Likely to Succeed: tomacco, poisonous hybrid of tomato and tobacco。

　　Best Revival of an old term:spider hole, World War II term for a hole deeper than a foxhole used for surprise attacks; in 2003, where Saddam Hussein was hiding。

　　2002Word of the Year: weapons of mass destruction or WMD, sought for in Iraq。

　　Most Likely to Succeed:blog, from “weblog,” a website of personal events, comments, and links。

　　Most Useful:google (verb)， as in “to google someone,” to search the Web using the search engine Google for information on a person or thing。

　　Most Creative:Iraqnophobia, strong fear of Iraq。

　　Most Unnecessary:wombanization, feminization, from Alexander Barnes’s book “The Book Read Backwards: The Deconstruction of Patriarchy and the Wombanization of Being。”

　　Most Outrageous:neuticles, fake testicles for neutered pets。

　　Most Euphemistic: regime change, forced change in leadership。

　　2001Word of the Year:9-11, 9/11 or September 11, terrorist attacks on that date。

　　Most Likely to Succeed:9-11.

　　Most Useful (tie)：facial profiling, using video “faceprint ” to identify terrorists and criminals, and second-hand speech, cell phone conversations heard by others in public places。

　　Most Creative: shuicide bomber, terrorist with bomb in shoes。

　　Most Unnecessary: impeachment nostalgia, longing for the superficial news of the Clinton era。

　　Least Likely to Succeed: Osamaniac, woman sexually attracted to terrorist Osama bin Laden。

　　Most Outrageous:assoline, methane used as fuel. Most Euphemistic: daisy cutter, large bomb that explodes a few feet above the ground。

　　Most Inspirational: Let’s roll! words of Todd Beamer to start the attack that foiled the hijackers of United Flight 93 on September 11.

　　2000Word of the Year:chad, a small scrap of paper punched from a voting card。

　　Most Likely to Succeed:muggle, Harry Potter term for a non-wizard; a mundane, unimaginative person。

　　Most Useful:civil union, legal same-sex marriage。

　　Most Creative:dot bomb, a failed dot-com。

　　Most Unnecessary: sudden loss of wealth syndrome。

　　Least Likely to Succeed: kablokeys, used in phrases like “It scared the kablokeys out of me。”

　　Most Outrageous: wall humping, rubbing a thigh against a security card scanner to allow access without removing the card from one's pocket。

　　Most Euphemistic:courtesy call, an uninvited call from a telemarketer。

　　Brand New(coined during the year, not previously attested)： unconcede, to rescind a concession as presidential candidate Al Gore did on election night. (It was later discovered that candidate Bob Dole had unconceded the presidential election in 1996, and there were occasional instances of that word going back several centuries。)

　　每一年，美國方言協(xié)會(ADS)都會選出當(dāng)年最熱門、最具影響力的英語詞匯，而過去十年間的No.1是誰呢？最終“Google”贏得了這一殊榮，不過注意這里它不是那家搜索引擎公司，而已經(jīng)是個通用動詞，意思是利用Google搜索引擎在WWW上查找資料。

　　和Google一起入圍最終決賽圈的其他五個候選詞匯是：“9/11”(九一一事件)、“green”(綠色節(jié)能)、“blog”(博客)、“text”(短信)、“war on terror”(反恐戰(zhàn)爭)。

　　回到2002年，當(dāng)時的年度詞匯是“weapons of mass destruction”(大規(guī)模殺傷性武器)，而Google被選為最有用的，blog則是最有潛力的。2006年年中，《牛津英語詞典》和《韋氏詞典》陸續(xù)將Google收錄為動詞。如今，我們已經(jīng)很難想象沒有Google的世界。

　　十年來最火熱的詞匯大多數(shù)都是互聯(lián)網(wǎng)造就的，但也有很多來自政治或者媒體，或者二者兼而有之，比如出自美國大選的“red state”(支持共和黨的紅色之州)和“blue state”(支持民主黨的藍色之州)。

　　以下是過去十年的年度英語詞匯：

　　2000：Chad、Courtesy call、Civil union、Nader traitor

　　2001：9/11、Suicide bomber、Ground zero、Misunderestimate

　　2002：WMD、Google(動詞)、Blog、Amber alert、Regime change

　　2003：Metrosexual、Embed、SARS、Pre-emptive self defense

　　2004：Red state、blue state、purple state、Flip-flopper、Phish、krunked

　　2005：Truthiness、Katrina、Podcast、Sudoku

　　2006：Plutoed、Macaca、YouTube、Lactard、waterboarding

　　2007：Subprime、Facebook、Green-(前綴)、Truther、Toe tapper

　　2008：Bailout、Barack Obama、Change、maverick、Shovel ready、TWD (texting while driving)、Bromance、Terrorist fist jab

　　2009：Tweet、-er(后綴)、Fail、Public option、H1N1、Death panel、Sexting