首页
登录
职称英语
The venerable 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains about 700,000 wor
The venerable 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains about 700,000 wor
游客
2023-10-22
30
管理
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. [br] Which of the following statement is NOT true about the word "Doh"?
选项
A、It was originated by the cartoon character Homer Simpson.
B、It keeps its original meaning but changes its original spelling.
C、Its popularity returned with the appearance of the Simpsons.
D、Its dictionary definition makes no reference to the Simpsons.
答案
A
解析
第4段首句中的popularized表明Doh并不是由the Simpsons发明的,而该句的第2个分句表明这个词早在1950年代就有了,虽然没有说明有什么人首先使用,但一定不是the Simpsons,因此A说法错误,为本题答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3121419.html
相关试题推荐
OnSeptember______tenthall______facultymembersof______EnglishDepartment
[originaltext]W:EnglishWritingCenter.HowcanIhelpyou?M:Hi.Igotapam
[originaltext]W:EnglishWritingCenter.HowcanIhelpyou?M:Hi.Igotapam
[originaltext]W:EnglishWritingCenter.HowcanIhelpyou?M:Hi.Igotapam
ThevocabularyandgrammaticaldifferencesbetweenBritishandAmericanEnglish
WhichofthefollowingsentencesisINCORRECT?A、TheEnglishteachercamein,boo
Theproductcontainsno_____colours,flavours,orpreservatives.A、fakeB、FALSE
Thefirsttextbook_______forteachingEnglishasaforeignlanguagecameoutin
Thefirsttextbook______forteachingEnglishasaforeignlanguagecameoutin
ThevocabularyandgrammaticaldifferencesbetweenBritishandAmericanEnglish
随机试题
DealingwithLifeAbroadI.Cultureshockoflifeabroad1)Moreandmorepeople
他的话把我搞糊涂了。Iwasconfused/puzzledathiswords.
______________________________(只有当我们摒除对乡下人的偏见时),canweliveinaharmoniousso
有一钢筋混凝土独立基础(尺寸如图),其混凝土工程量为()m3。 A.3.
4岁患儿,体重15kg,因肠套叠呕吐10余天入院。患儿呼吸深而快.40次/分,血
校园文化的核心是() A、物质文化B、精神文化C、制度文化D、组织文化
一些公益广告是请非常有影响力的明星制作的,根据班杜拉的理论,这种做法关注的是观察
套利头寸经过一段时间的波动之后达到了定的所期望的利润目标时,需要通过对冲来结算利
下列有关会员制期货交易所会员应当履行义务的说法中,正确的有()。A.遵守期货交
确定目标现金余额的成本模型不用考虑管理成本。()
最新回复
(
0
)