牛津词典新词盘点：今天你“饿毛了吗”.docVIP

牛津词典新词盘点：今天你“饿毛了吗” NBD, but are you ready to fangirl over our dictionary update? Abso-bloody-lutely. We’ve got some awesomesauce new words – no, rly – that will inform and entertain whether you’re hangry or it’s already wine o’clock. Mic drop. 虽然没什么大不了的（NBD），但是你还是准备好当我们字典新词的脑残粉（fangirl）了吗？绝对尼玛（abso-bloody-lutely）准备好了啊。我们有很多超赞的（awesomesauce）新词，真的（rly），无论是你饿毛了（hangry）还是已经到酒点（wine o’clock）了，你都会学到东西并且觉得很好玩的。扔麦（Mic drop）。 Mic drops, awesomesauce, manspreading, and more 扔麦，赞酱，大爷式占座，等等 The mic drop can be a literal ‘instance of deliberately dropping or tossing aside one’s microphone at the end of a performance or speech one considers to have been particularly impressive’, but it’s more likely to be figurative – or an exclamation to emphasize a particularly impressive point: Nuff said. Mic drop. “扔麦（mic drop）”原意是“在表演或演讲结束时扔掉麦克风的瞬间（而且特别让人印象深刻）”，不过用得更多的是它的引申义——用作叹词，强调一件事令人印象深刻：无需多说了，扔麦。? If you want to describe something as excellent, you can use awesomesauce; on the other side of the coin, anything of a poor or disappointing standard is weak sauce. Weak sauce came first, and has a more comprehensible origin as a metaphor; an inadequate sauce would certainly let down an otherwise decent meal. Though awesomesauce clearly comes from the words awesome and sauce, the former is currently beating the latter in the Oxford English Corpus and Oxford Twitter Corpus. 如果你想描述一样东西很棒，你可以用“awesomesauce（‘赞酱’，超赞的）”；相反，很差劲、令人失望的东西就是“weak sauce（弱酱）”。先出现的是“weak sauce（弱酱）”，这个词是一个来源很好理解的比喻：酱汁不够好肯定会让美食变味。虽然“awesomesauce（赞酱）”明显只是 “awesome（很赞的）”和“sauce（酱汁）”组合起来，但它现在已经在牛津英语语料库和牛津推特语料库把“弱酱”打败了。 Why say banter (‘playfully teasing or mocking remarks exchanged with another person or group’) when you can save a syllable with bants? (Be careful where you use it, though; the term might be recognized in the UK, but is likely to get bemused looks elsewhere.) And, speaking of brevity, the \t /new/p746297/_blank initialism?NBD can take the place of no big deal, while rly is handy textspeak for really. 如果说“bants