美国国家公共电台 NPR Bigly Listicle Of Banished Words For 2017 Unveiled

 

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: 

For many of us a new year means a clean start, the chance to toss out things we don't need anymore or get rid of bad habits. Well, the folks at Lake Superior State University in Michigan say we ought to start with some of the lamest¹ slang and ear-clanging jargon² of 2016. They've come up with a list of words they'd like banished³ from our vocabulary in 2017. And to start - post-truth...

JOHN SHIBLEY: Which is sort of an oxymoron.

CORNISH: Historic...

SHIBLEY: Thrown around far too much.

CORNISH: And a historical leftover⁴ from the world of politics - the town hall meeting.

SHIBLEY: Usually civic⁵ affairs, they're now overproduced media events.

CORNISH: That's John Shibley. He helps create LSSU's annual - and yes, this is the real title - "List Of Words Banished From The Queen's English For Mis-Use, Over-Use And General Uselessness. It's been going on for 42 years. He says the election inspired many submissions⁶ this year.

SHIBLEY: If the political season got under people's skin, they could lock onto our banishment⁷ words site and vote for as many words and phrases related to the 2016 election campaign until they felt better.

CORNISH: Echo chamber⁸ is on the strike list, as is disruption, but some political submissions didn't make it.

SHIBLEY: We, of course, had a lot of votes for President Trump⁹ and Crooked¹⁰ Hillary. We didn't really want to wade¹¹ into that swamp.

CORNISH: Plenty of nonpolitical words and phrases have been marked for banishment as well, on fleek - millennial¹² speak for on point or looking good. Dad bod - I'll let you figure that one out. And get your dandruff up.

SHIBLEY: People got their dander up, I'm sure. Maybe they bumped into somebody who misspoke and said dandruff, but that received more than 800 nominations¹³.

CORNISH: Maybe it was 800 people. Maybe it was one guy on a computer in his basement. Either way, the texting fave 831 is also on the chopping block. It's code for I love you.

SHIBLEY: Eight letters, three words, one meaning.

CORNISH: Shibley says that was a new one for him, but this next one wasn't. Last year, thanks to Donald Trump, this one was unavoidable.

SHIBLEY: Bigly, which was meant to be big league.

CORNISH: Yes, well, bigly is actually an old word.

SHIBLEY: It was commonly used in the 19th century. It's a good word that we can try to use again.

CORNISH: All right, that was fast. I thought this was supposed to be the banished word list?

SHIBLEY: (Laughter) Well, that's where we have two sides to this. We've never advocated getting rid of words, just using them constructively¹⁴.

CORNISH: That's John Shibley of Michigan's Lake Superior State University talking about their newly released "List Of Words Banished From The Queen's English For Mis-Use, Over-Use And General Uselessness." His helpful recommendation for 2017 - get a thesaurus, but don't go overboard.

1 lamest   

瘸的( lame的最高级 )； 站不住脚的； 差劲的； 蹩脚的

参考例句：

• You can check out some of the lamest excuses ever used to dump. 你可以挑着看看那些曾被用来甩人的最蹩脚理由。

2 jargon   

n.术语，行话

参考例句：

• They will not hear critics with their horrible jargon.他们不愿意听到评论家们那些可怕的行话。
• It is important not to be overawed by the mathematical jargon.要紧的是不要被数学的术语所吓倒.

3 banished   

v.放逐，驱逐( banish的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was banished to Australia, where he died five years later. 他被流放到澳大利亚，五年后在那里去世。
• He was banished to an uninhabited island for a year. 他被放逐到一个无人居住的荒岛一年。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 leftover   

n.剩货，残留物，剩饭；adj.残余的

参考例句：

• These narrow roads are a leftover from the days of horse-drawn carriages.这些小道是从马车时代沿用下来的。
• Wonder if that bakery lets us take leftover home.不知道那家糕饼店会不会让我们把卖剩的带回家。

5 civic   

adj.城市的，都市的，市民的，公民的

参考例句：

• I feel it is my civic duty to vote.我认为投票选举是我作为公民的义务。
• The civic leaders helped to forward the project.市政府领导者协助促进工程的进展。

6 submissions   

n.提交( submission的名词复数 )；屈从；归顺；向法官或陪审团提出的意见或论据

参考例句：

• The deadline for submissions to the competition will be Easter 1994. 递交参赛申请的截止时间为1994年的复活节。 来自辞典例句
• Section 556(d) allows the agency to substitute written submissions for oral direct testimony in rulemaking. 第五百五十六条第（四）款准允行政机关在规则制定中用书面提交材料替代口头的直接证言。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法

7 banishment   

n.放逐，驱逐

参考例句：

• Qu Yuan suffered banishment as the victim of a court intrigue. 屈原成为朝廷中钩心斗角的牺牲品，因而遭到放逐。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• He was sent into banishment. 他被流放。 来自辞典例句

8 chamber   

n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所

参考例句：

• For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
• The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。

9 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

10 crooked   

adj.弯曲的；不诚实的，狡猾的，不正当的

参考例句：

• He crooked a finger to tell us to go over to him.他弯了弯手指，示意我们到他那儿去。
• You have to drive slowly on these crooked country roads.在这些弯弯曲曲的乡间小路上你得慢慢开车。

11 wade   

v.跋涉，涉水；n.跋涉

参考例句：

• We had to wade through the river to the opposite bank.我们只好涉水过河到对岸。
• We cannot but wade across the river.我们只好趟水过去。

12 millennial   

一千年的，千福年的

参考例句：

• Both Russia and America looked to the future to fulfill their millennial expectations. 俄国和美国都把实现他们黄金时代的希望寄托于未来。
• The millennial generation is celebrating the global commons every day, apparently unmindful of Hardin's warning. 千禧一代显然对哈丁的警告不以为然，每天都在颂扬全球“公地”。

13 nominations   

n.提名，任命( nomination的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Nominations are invited for the post of party chairman. 为党主席职位征集候选人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Much coverage surrounded his abortive bids for the 1960,1964, and 1968 Republican Presidential nominations. 许多消息报道都围绕着1960年、1964年和1968年他为争取提名为共和党总统候选人所做努力的失败。 来自辞典例句

14 constructively   

ad.有益的，积极的

参考例句：

• Collecting, by occupying spare time so constructively, makes a person contented, with no time for boredom. 如此富有意义地利用业余时间来进行收藏，会使人怡然自得，无暇烦恼。
• The HKSAR will continue to participate constructively in these activities. 香港会继续积极参与这些活动。