你想過沒 韋氏詞典是怎樣收錄歷年新詞的？
During last year’s presidential debates, and through this year’s inauguration, Merriam-Webster has been an active presence on Twitter, sharing words experiencing an uptick in search, or funny, relevant trivia.
在去年總統競選辯論以及今年的就職典禮期間，韋氏詞典一直在推特上很活躍，分享着那些搜索量增加的詞彙或是一些相關趣事。
You might even say the dictionary provided a safe space on social media, or “a place (as on a college campus) intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations.”
你可能會說這本詞典在互聯網上提供了一個安全空間，或“一個（像大學校園一樣的）場所，（那裏）沒有偏見、衝突、指責，或是潛在的危險活動，可以自由地交流思想或進行對話。”
It’s fitting, then, that “safe space” is among the 1,000 new additions Merriam-Webster made to its online dictionary today. The word was first used in 1970, and has been used by colleges post-election to describe themselves as campuses that will protect students who might feel in danger due to their religious beliefs, sexual orientation, race or gender.
後來，韋氏詞典就把“safe space”（安全空間）這個詞收錄到現今在線詞典的1000個新增詞條中，這也是十分恰當的。1970年，這個詞被第一次使用，大選後，大學就用這個詞來稱自己爲“保護那些因個人宗教信仰、性取向、種族或性別而感到危險的學生的校園”。
Not all of the added words have been around for decades. Some of them, like “binge-watch” and “photobomb,” are products of newer technologies, but saw big spikes in recent use.
不是所有的新增詞彙都已使用了幾十年。像“binge-watch”（刷劇）和“photobomb”（照片炸彈）這樣的一些詞彙是新興技術的產物，而最近其使用率迅速增長。
In an announcement, Merriam-Webster explained its methodology: “In some cases, terms have been observed for years and are finally being added; in others, the fast rise and broad acceptance of a term has made for a quicker journey.”
在一則聲明中，韋氏詞典解釋了它的方法論：“在某些情況下，一些詞被觀察多年，最後被收錄到新詞中；在其他情況下，一個詞，其使用率迅速增長，且被廣泛接受，這個詞就會更快地被收入詞典中。”
In a statement to The Huffington Post, Merriam-Webster’s editor-at-large Peter Sokolowski added that the words announced today were added to the dictionary’s digital pages. “The online dictionary gives us both more space to expand entries and a way to add them more quickly,” he said.
在發給赫芬頓郵報的一則聲明中，韋氏詞典的特約編輯彼得·索科洛夫斯基補充道，如今發表的新詞被添加到字典的數字頁面中。“在線詞典既爲我們提供了更多的空間來擴展詞條，又爲我們提供了一個迅速補充詞條的方法。”
Other entries are updates of pre-existing words, such as “ghost” used as an informal verb, and “train wreck” used metaphorically to describe “an utter disaster or mess.”
其他詞條是對現有詞彙的更新，如“ghost”（悄悄地行進）這個詞被用作一個非正式的動詞，而“train wreck”則被比喻爲“一場徹底的災難或混亂”。
The new additions come from medicine, sports, literature, fashion, politics and technology. One even comes from the name of a prolific word inventor ― “Seussian,” meaning “suggestive of the works of Dr. Seuss.”
新增詞彙出自醫藥、運動、文學、時尚、政治以及技術領域。甚至還有一個詞彙出自一個富有創造力的詞彙發明家的名字，“Seussian”，意爲“瑟斯博士提出的詞彙”。
