The word “hangry,” a compound of “hungry” and “angry,” has officially been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
According to a BBC report, the OED has issued a list of over 1,000 new words to be added to the dictionary. In addition to hangry, the word “mansplaining” — referring to people, and in particular men talking to women, attempting to explain an idea using a superior attitude – has also been added.
The word ransomware was added to the 829,000 words in the OED due to the WannaCry virus that made news around the world last year.
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Also, the Korean word “chaebol,” referring to large industrial conglomerates created from family-run corporate groups such as South Korea’s Samsung and Hyundai, has also been added, as a direct Romanization of the Korean, into the dictionary. The meaning of the term has come to be extended to describe the extravagant lifestyle of members of these family-run conglomerates.
(CNA, translated by Paul Cooper)
因為飢餓(hungry)而發怒(angry)的組合字「餓怒」(hangry),正式被牛津辭典收錄為新字。
英國廣播公司報導,牛津辭典發表一千多個新收錄單字,除了「餓怒」之外,也收錄了「男人說教」(mansplaining),指的是用高高在上的態度對別人說教,特指男性對女性。
去年在全球掀起風波的勒索軟體WannaCry,讓「勒索軟體」(ransomware)也被收錄,加入牛津辭典原有的八十二萬九千字行列。
而專指韓國三星集團、現代集團等家族企業發展成大型綜合企業集團的韓文「財閥」(chaebol)一字,也以拼音直接被納入牛津辭典。不過,近來這個字已經延伸出其他意思,泛指這些家族企業成員的豪奢生活方式。
(中央社)
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