【话匣子英语】你听过这些最新的俚语吗

 安德鲁最近得到了一份可以和广大青少年接触的工作，从他们那里，安德鲁学习到了很多新的词汇和俚语，来看看都有什么吧

Andrew: Harp¹, what’s new with you?

 

Harp: Not much. It was a pretty boring day. How about you?

 

Andrew: Well, you know what? I actually started a new job today.

 

Harp: Oh. That’s really exciting.

 

Andrew: Yeah. I’m working at a local college and I am working with a bunch of teenagers.

 

Harp: Wow! That’s pretty interesting.

 

Andrew: Yeah. And I’m really excited about this job because, as you probably know, teenagers are the ones who really are creative with language. They really drive language change. And so, by working with teenagers, I get to hear lots of cool new slang words.

 

Harp: Well, that’s actually perfect for this episode.

 

Andrew: Yeah. It’s great, because today we are going to talk about some new words and new slang.

 

Harp: Yup. It’s a Chatterbox episode but with a little twist. We’re just gonna throw out new slang and see if we know it and what it could possibly mean.

 

Andrew: Right. This will be, maybe, a learning experience for us as well as all the listeners out there. So all languages invent new words, and English really invents tons of new words every year. And at the end of the year, a lot of the big English dictionaries, like Oxford² Dictionaries, Cambridge Dictionaries, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, also Dictionary.com, all the big dictionaries, come out with a list of some of the new words that they added to their dictionary for the year.

 

Harp: Yup, exactly. And by the time they’re added into these dictionaries, I usually know them, but we’re gonna go to some slang words that aren’t in the dictionary yet but that are becoming popular.

 

Andrew: Mmhmm. So we’re gonna look at some of these lists and just test each other to see if we have learned these new words yet.

 

Harp: I think it’s gonna be very interesting!

 

Andrew: All right. So let’s start. Shall we?

 

Harp: Let’s do it!

 

Andrew: OK. So the first word I’m gonna test you on, Harp, is raptivist.

 

Harp: Raptivist.

 

Andrew: Mmhmm. Raptivist.

 

Harp: Well, I have to be honest; I’ve definitely never heard this word before. But if I take a guess… raptivist. So activist³. Rap, like a rapper?

 

Andrew: Exactly. So a raptivist is a type of activist who tries to create social change. And they do this by making rap music. So through their music, they lobby for social changes to happen.

 

Harp: It’s kind of a fun word: a raptivist.

1 harp   

n.竖琴；天琴座

参考例句：

• She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
• He played an Irish melody on the harp.他用竖琴演奏了一首爱尔兰曲调。

2 Oxford   

n.牛津（英国城市）

参考例句：

• 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。

3 activist   

n.活动分子，积极分子

参考例句：

• He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
• He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。