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1、 2022年流行英语词汇 Top Ten Word Lists of 2022 2. Tsunami: From the Japanese tsu nami for ”harbor wave”, few recognized the word before disaster struck on Christmas Day, 2022, but the word subsequently flooded with unprecedented (and sustained) media coverage. 3. Poppa/Papa/Pope: (Italian, Portuguese, Engl
2、ish, many others). The death of beloved Pope John Paul II kept the words on the lips of the faithful around the world. 4. Chinglish: The new second language of China from the Chinglish formation: CHINese + EngLISH. 5. H5N1: A looming global pandemic that could dwarf the Boubonic Plague of the Middle
3、 Ages (and AIDS) boggles the comtemporary imagination. 6. Recaille: A quick trip around the Romance languages (French jargon, scum; Spanish, rabble or swine; Italian, worthless dregs) illustrates the full freight of the word used to describe youthful French rioters of North African and Muslim descen
4、t. 7. Katrina: Name will become synonymous with natural forces responsible for the total and utter descruction of a city. 8. Wiki: Internet buzzword (from the Hawai”ian wiki wiki for ”quick, quick”) that describes collaboration software where anyone can contribute to the on-going effort. 9. SMS: Sho
5、rt Message Service. The world”s youth sent over a trillion text messages in 2022. Currently being texted are full-length novels, news, private messages and everything in between. 10. Insurgent: Politically neutral term used to describe enemy combatants. The Top Ten Phrases of 2022 1. Out of the Main
6、stream: Used to describe the ideology of any political opponent. 2. Bird Flu/Avian Flu: the H5N1 strain of Flu that resembles that of the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic where 60 million died. 3. Politically Correct: Emerges as a worldwide phenomenon. 4. North/South Divide: In the US it might be Red State
7、s and Blue States but globally the ”haves” and ”have nots” are divided by a geographical if not psychological boundary. 5. Purple Thumb: The badge of honor worn by Iraqi voters proving that they voted in their ground-breaking elections. 6. Climate Change: Or Global Warming. No matter what your polit
8、ical persuasion, the fact remains that New York City was under 5,000 feet of ice some 20,000 years ago. 7. String Theory: The idea that the universe is actually constructed of 11-dimensional, pulsating planes of existence. 8. The Golden Quatrilateral: India”s new superhighway system that links the k
9、ey cities of the Subcontinent. 9. Jumping the Couch. Apparently losing complete emotional control; made popular by the escapades of Tom Cruise on the Oprah television show. 10. Deferred success: The idea introduced in the UK that there is no such thing as failure, only deferred success. The Top Ten
10、Names of 2022 1. (Acts of) God: The world watches helplessly as a superpower is humbled as one of its great cities is laid asunder (Hurricane Katrina). 2. Tsunami snuffs out nearly 300,000 lives, and an earthquake takes another 200,000 (Kashmir). A Higher Power, indeed. 3. Katrina: Greek ?a?a? (kath
11、aros) for ”pure”. Before the hurricane, the name was borne by two saints, Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, and three of Henry VIII”s wives. 4. John Paul II. The death of beloved Pope John Paul II kept his name on the lips of the faithful around the world. 5. Wen Jiabao: Premier of the People”s
12、 Republic of China since March 2022; leading perhaps the largest economic transformation in history. 6. Saddham Hussein: Should re-read Karl Marx: the first time is history, the second is but farce. 7. Dubya: Every more ”weeble-like”: Dubya wobbles but he won”t fall down. 8. Oprah: Now a global phen
13、omenon with an ever-expanding media (and charitable) empire. 9. Shakira: the Columbian songstress is captivating ever wider circles. 10. John Roberts: New Chief Justice of the American Supreme Court. 11. Mahmud Ahmadi-nejad: President of Iran since August 2022; he has recently suggest that the Jewish Homeland be moved to Europe. Last year the Top Names were Dubya Rove (W. and Karl Rove), Mel (Gibson) (Michael) Moore, and Saddam Hussein. Top Global Musical Terms 1. Reggaeton (pronounced Reggae-TO
