The TOP words of the decade from 20002009
1. Global Warming Rated highly from Day One of the decade.
全球变暖(2000)从十年之始就成为最热词语之一。
2. 9/11 another inauspicious start to the decade.
911 本十年又一不祥开端。
3. Obama- The US President's name as a root word or word stem.
奥巴马-(2008)这位美国总统的名字被用作词根或词干。
4. Bailout The Bank Bailout was but Act One of the crisis.
援助(2008)对银行推行救援是各国在金融危机发生后的第一反应。
5. Evacuee/refugee After Katrina, refugees became evacuees1.
撤离者/难民(2005)卡特里娜飓风发生后,难民变成了撤离者。
6. Derivative2 Financial instrument or analytical3 tool that engendered4 the Meltdown
金融衍生商品(2007):致使金融危机爆发的金融工具或剖析方法。
7. 谷歌 Founders5 misspelled actual word googol
Google(2007)开创者本选择的是googol,但错拼成谷歌。
8. Surge The strategy that effectively ended the Iraq War.
增兵(2007):结束伊拉克战争的有效策略。
9. Chinglish The Chinese-English Hybrid6 language growing larger as Chinese influence expands.
中式英语(2005):伴随中国影响力的增大,这种中英杂交式英语开始增多。
10. Tsunami7 Southeast Asian Tsunami took 250,000 lives.
海啸(2004)东南亚海啸使25万人丧生。
11. H1N1 More commonly known as Swine Flu.
甲型H1N1型流感 俗称猪流感。
12. Subprime Subprime mortgages were another bubble to burst.
次贷(2007)次级抵押贷款是另一个破裂的泡沫。
13. dot.com The Dot.com bubble engendered no lifelines, no bailouts.
互联网公司(2000)网络泡沫没生命线,也没援助。
14. Y2K The Year 2000: all computers would turn to pumpkins8 at the strike of midnight.
千年虫(2000)当午夜千年虫来袭的时刻,所有电脑都将陷入瘫痪。
15. Misunderestimate One of the first and most enduring of Bushisms.
错误低估(2002)首个也是最持久的布什经典口误。
16. Chad Those Florida voter punch card fragments that the presidency9 would turn upon.
孔芯 佛罗里达州左右总统大选结果的打孔式选票的孔芯。
17. Twitter A quarter of a billion references on 谷歌.
twitter(2008)在Google上有两亿五千万条关于这个词的条目。
18. WMD Iraqs Weapons of Mass Destruction.
大规模杀伤性武器(2002)伊拉克的大规模杀伤性武器。
19. Blog First called web logs which contracted into blogs.
博客(2003)刚开始被叫做互联网日志,后简称博客。
Texting Sending 140 character text messages over cell phones.
发短信(2004)用手机发送的低于140字符的文本信息。
21. Slumdog Child inhabitants of Mumbas slums.
贫民(2008)居住在孟买贫民窟的孩子。
22. Sustainable The key to Green living where natural resources are never depleted10.
可持续的(2006)不会使自然资源枯竭的绿色生活方法的重点。
Brokeback New term for gay from he Hollywood film Brokeback Mountain.
断背(2004)这个对于同性恋的新称呼来自好莱坞影片《断背山》。
24. Quagmire11 Would Iraq War end up like Vietnam, another quagmire?
泥潭(2004)伊拉克战争是不是也会陷入越南战争那样的泥潭之中呢?
25. Truthiness Steven Colbert's addition to the language appears to be a keeper.
真实(2006)史蒂芬科尔伯特创造的这个单词出目前榜单的最后一位。