近年来,每当在美国最权威的《韦氏大词典》公布最新的热门词条词汇时,都会形成一股跟风讨论的潮流。只要关注一下《韦氏大词典》每年收录的新词,我们就知道“英语文化圈”中又出现了哪些新鲜的潮流趋势。本期,就让我们通过《韦氏大词典》收录的部分新词来看看它们所记录的历史轨迹吧。前两天陪孩子一起看TV版的《蓝精灵》(The Smurfs),其中有一集讲述几个蓝精灵不小心将“时间之河”的木塞撞开了,“时 In recent years, whenever the most authoritative ”Webster Dictionary“ in the United States publishes the latest hotword terms, a trend of following the trend will be formed. Just look at the new words that we have collected each year in Wechsler’s Dictionary, and we know what fresh trends have emerged in the ”Cultural Circle of English“. This issue, let us look through some of the new words included in Webster’s Dictionary to see the historical trajectory they recorded. A couple of episodes of ”The Smurfs“ TV episode two days ago accompanied the children watching the TV episode. One of the episodes tells the story that several Smurfs accidentally broke the cork of ”The River of Time"