牛津年度候选热词:你知道woot是什么吗?
随着网络的广泛运用,越来越多的网络词汇融入到我们的日常生活中去。此次,牛津字典将其列为年度热词候选的“woot”,便是一个来自于网络游戏的词汇。这个看似很简单的单词,大家知道是什么意思吗?
woot:an exclamation of happiness(感叹词,用语表达兴奋欣喜之情)
. 这个词是怎么来的呢?
Woot originated as a hacker term for root (or administrative) access to a computer.
However, with the term coinciding with the gamer term, "w00t", which was originally an truncated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for "Wow, loot!", the term passed into the net-culture where it thrived in video game communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement.
话说woot这个词直到今年才被牛津字典列入热词候选么,人家韦氏词典动作可要快很多啦。在韦氏2007年度词汇中,woot便名列第一。
像“woot”这样来自于“Wow, loot!”的构词法让人感觉好新奇,小编一下子想起曾经看到“围观”的英语说法,circusee(circus+see)了。其实说是中式英语,在构词法上和woot是如出一辙啊。不过,像circusee这样的词毕竟米有被收录字典中,大家平时运用的时候还是要注意场合哦^^
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