首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The venerable 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains about 700,000 words, but the editors recently realized they were miss
The venerable 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains about 700,000 words, but the editors recently realized they were miss
admin
2021-10-20
65
问题
The venerable 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains about 700,000 words, but the editors recently realized they were missing one: Doh!
The cartoon character Homer Simpson’s forehead-smacking lament is one of some 250 entries being added today to the dictionary, which is widely considered the leading authority on the English language.
"Doh" is now defined as "Expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as planned, or that one has just said or done something foolish," according to the new entry in the dictionary.
The Simpsons only popularized the term; it was actually used extensively in the 1950s, the OED found. Although it is often spelled "D’oh," the dictionary chose to omit the apostrophe.
Other newcomers to the dictionary include cheesy, which means second-rate or inferior; six-pack, meaning rippling abdominal muscles, and Bollywood, which refers to the Hindi film industry based in Bombay, India.
"We’ll have terms from immuno-biology to gangster rap," says Jesse Sheidlower, who is head of the project for North America.
The OED’s staff of 50 editors is wading through popular culture looking for new words and usages that merit an entry, as part of its 8-year-old $55 million updating project. It is the first complete revision of the dictionary since it was completed in 1928.
"The principle way we get new entries is to have readers look around the world for things that seem new or significant," says John Simpson, chief editor of the OED. Contributors have included a Nobel laureate and an inmate at an insane asylum, among thousands of others.
"We have about 200,000 example sentences coming into the department each year."
Simpson (John, not Homer) and his colleagues whittle that list down to the few that seem to have got a solid foothold in popular usage. He says his job also gives him an excuse to watch a lot of action films, soap operas and quiz shows, to look for more new terms.
"Many terms are much older than you think they are," says Sheidlower.
"Phat," for example, makes its debut in the OED today as a slang term meaning cool.
But it has been African-American slang since at least the 1960s, OED researchers found. The word even appeared with its present meaning in Time magazine in 1963.
The dictionary contains some surprises for people who think they are using the latest, cutting-edge jargon.
According to the last paragraph, what surprises will the dictionary bring to the people?
选项
A、There will be the most novel and popular words in the dictionary.
B、People will realize they are not as fashionable as they imagine.
C、There will be most helpful words for those who want to be trendy.
D、People will realize they are not as knowledgeable as they think.
答案
B
解析
倒数第4段可以说是这4段的主题句,因此,最后一段的surprises应该是指字典里的词并不如人们想象的那么新,因此,认识这些词的人也就并不是他们想象的那么时髦了,可见,本题应选B。注意最后一段的定语从句限定了题目针对什么样的人,其中的latest和cutting-edge表明该句中的人与“时髦”有关,而与是否“有知识”无关,这样就排除D;A是原文一直以来强调的词典的特点,但不能算是surprise;C虽然有trendy一词与“时髦”有关,但整个句子偏离了最后4段的意思。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/78tK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Theinternationalcommunityshouldreachabroad_______onthematterandjointlytackleanymajorsecurityconcernbydialogues
Whenthesentence"Shallwelistentothemusic?"isturnedintoindirectspeech,whichofthefollowingismostappropriate?
Thesecretaryandheadmasteroftheschool______presentatthemeeting.
_______time,they’llprobablyagreewithwhatyouproposenow.
Animalsarelivingcreaturesandmostofusoftenforgetaboutit.Althoughtheycan’tspeakourlanguage,theycanunderstandu
A.dietB.regularlyC.healthyD.commonlyE.reducedF.samplesG.containsH.participatedI.drinkJ.measuredK.av
[A]school[B]numbers[C]emphasize[D]continue[E]significant[F]undoubtedly[G]weak[H]countries[I]invisible[J]ignore[K]unloc
A.adequateB.adjustC.approachD.constructiveE.concentrationF.establishingG.includeH.learning
WhichofthefollowingwordscanNOTbeusedtocomplete"Thejob’s_______done"?
Listentothefollowingpassage.Altogetherthepassagewillbereadtoyoufourtimes.Duringthefirstreading,whichwillbe
随机试题
写出下列反应的机制
研究者进行临床试验时,采用双盲法以尽可能减少
“出髃骨之前廉,上出于柱骨之会上”的经脉是
患者鼻翼右侧有一枚粟粒样脓头,麻痒并作,红肿热痛,顶突根深坚硬,舌红,苔薄黄,脉滑数。治则应为()
下列各项中属于静态投资的是()。
什么是会计职业道德?其作用有哪些?
出租车以固定速度从乙地出发到甲地再回到乙地,往返需要1小时40分钟,这一天,小明早上8点从甲地出发步行去乙地,出租车在上午9点从乙地出发,小明中途遇到这辆出租车便坐车去乙地,并于早上10点20分钟到达。问出租车的速度是小明步行速度的多少倍?
新课改来了,几家欢喜几家忧。对于一些中来年教师,对新课改一时难以适应,他们在教学岗位上用自己的一套方式教了几十年,突然说要课改,几十年的习惯一下子扭转不过来。请给这些教师完成教师转变提出意见。
()是被《中华人民共和国未成年人保护法》所严令禁止的,是根本不允许在幼儿园以及各级教育机构使用的。
随机地取某种炮弹9发做试验,得炮口速度的样本标准差S=11.设炮口速度服从正态分布,求这种炮弹的炮口速度的标准差的置信度为0.95的置信区间.
最新回复
(
0
)