2002年Top10美国流行英语词汇b
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Worst New Product Names

1. A5250 Youth batting helmet. A great product with a not-so-great name

2. Jaguar1 Apple’s new version of the OS X operating system. An internal code-name that somehow slipped Apple’s usually expert marketing2 maze3.

3. Touareg Volkswagen's new SUV named in French after the nomadic4 North African tribe.

Best Corporate5 Name Change

1. American Home Products To Wyeth, good move. American Home Products does not exactly connote the company’s new core competencies of synthetic6 chemistry: molecules7, recombinant proteins and vaccines8.

2. Accenture Last year's worst product name looks better and better the further Andersen sinks.

Worst Corporate Name Changes


1. Bearing Point (or BreakingPoint?) KPMG’s attempt to distance itself from the rest of the former ‘Big Six’ accounting9 firms.

2. Enron Still doing business as Enron!? The crisis management rulebook calls for a clean break with the past to re-position the company. But then Enron never was one to follow the rules.

Top Corporate Words or Phrasees

1. The Schultz Defense10 "I know nothing . . . nothing!" From the running line of the pudgy German guard in the now defunct11 TV series "Hogan's Heroes."

2. Dot communism The belief that all on-line services should be free.

3. Dematerialization (of documents) Correspondence does not need to be shredded12, if it is published by the Web and internet.

4. Low-hanging Fruit Easy-to-win accounts.

5. Rank-and-Yank The technique of ranking employees annually13 and then cutting the lowest 10% loose.

Top Advertising14 Word

1. Frothy A fresh or original idea. Supplants15 ‘edgy’ which was THE word for a few years now.

Top Internet Words Moving into Widespread Use

1. Interface16 To converse17 as in, “Let’s interface”.

2. Multi-task To perform several tasks at the same time.

3. Reboot To start over or begin a new effort.

4. Out of Bandwidth (or RAM) Unable to multi-task..

5. Crash As in ‘My hard drive crashed’.

Top Color-related Words

1. Cornflower Shade of blue

2. Periwinkle Grey/blue

3. Cerulean Blue

4. Plum Purple

5. Cerise Pink

Top Sports-related Words

1. BCS College football’s Bowl Championship Series to crown a national championship in lieu of a playoff.

2. Grand Slam Tiger Woods did not win all four of golf’s major tourneys in the same year, though he did own all four trophies18 at the same time; dubbed19 the ‘Tiger Slam’.

Top Five Most Misspelled Words

1. Grateful You should be grateful to know that keeping "great" out of "grateful" is great.

2. Judgement This word is governed by one of the rare rules of English orthography20, so why not enjoy it? After [c] and [g], [e] is retained to indicate the letter is "soft," i.e. pronounced like [s] or [j], respectively.

3. Its/it's The apostrophe marks a contraction21 of "it is." Something that belongs to it is "its."

4. Founder22 Flounder is a fish; ‘to founder’ is to run aground.

5. Misspell What is more embarrassing than to misspell the name of the problem?


 

Most frequently spoken word on the Planet:

1. O.K. Still the most popular word in languages around the world.



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1 jaguar JaPz8     
n.美洲虎
参考例句:
  • He was green with envy when he saw my new Jaguar car.看见我那辆美洲虎牌新车,他非常妒忌。
  • Should you meet a jaguar in the jungle,just turn slowly,walk away.But slowly,never look back.你在丛林中若碰上美洲虎,就慢慢转身走开,可一定要慢,切莫回头看。
2 marketing Boez7e     
n.行销,在市场的买卖,买东西
参考例句:
  • They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
  • He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。
3 maze F76ze     
n.迷宫,八阵图,混乱,迷惑
参考例句:
  • He found his way through the complex maze of corridors.他穿过了迷宮一样的走廊。
  • She was lost in the maze for several hours.一连几小时,她的头脑处于一片糊涂状态。
4 nomadic 0H5xx     
adj.流浪的;游牧的
参考例句:
  • This tribe still live a nomadic life.这个民族仍然过着游牧生活。
  • The plowing culture and the nomadic culture are two traditional principal cultures in China.农耕文化与游牧文化是我国传统的两大主体文化。
5 corporate 7olzl     
adj.共同的,全体的;公司的,企业的
参考例句:
  • This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
  • His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
6 synthetic zHtzY     
adj.合成的,人工的;综合的;n.人工制品
参考例句:
  • We felt the salesman's synthetic friendliness.我们感觉到那位销售员的虚情假意。
  • It's a synthetic diamond.这是人造钻石。
7 molecules 187c25e49d45ad10b2f266c1fa7a8d49     
分子( molecule的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The structure of molecules can be seen under an electron microscope. 分子的结构可在电子显微镜下观察到。
  • Inside the reactor the large molecules are cracked into smaller molecules. 在反应堆里,大分子裂变为小分子。
8 vaccines c9bb57973a82c1e95c7cd0f4988a1ded     
疫苗,痘苗( vaccine的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • His team are at the forefront of scientific research into vaccines. 他的小组处于疫苗科研的最前沿。
  • The vaccines were kept cool in refrigerators. 疫苗放在冰箱中冷藏。
9 accounting nzSzsY     
n.会计,会计学,借贷对照表
参考例句:
  • A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
  • There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。
10 defense AxbxB     
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
参考例句:
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
11 defunct defunct     
adj.死亡的;已倒闭的
参考例句:
  • The scheme for building an airport seems to be completely defunct now.建造新机场的计划看来整个完蛋了。
  • This schema object is defunct.No modifications are allowed until it is made active again.此架构对象不起作用。在重新激活之前,不能进行任何改动。
12 shredded d51bccc81979c227d80aa796078813ac     
shred的过去式和过去分词
参考例句:
  • Serve the fish on a bed of shredded lettuce. 先铺一层碎生菜叶,再把鱼放上,就可以上桌了。
  • I think Mapo beancurd and shredded meat in chilli sauce are quite special. 我觉得麻婆豆腐和鱼香肉丝味道不错。 来自《简明英汉词典》
13 annually VzYzNO     
adv.一年一次,每年
参考例句:
  • Many migratory birds visit this lake annually.许多候鸟每年到这个湖上作短期逗留。
  • They celebrate their wedding anniversary annually.他们每年庆祝一番结婚纪念日。
14 advertising 1zjzi3     
n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的
参考例句:
  • Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
  • The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
15 supplants d0c8a0eeec7ba37e4e3a3215fbec43a6     
把…排挤掉,取代( supplant的第三人称单数 )
参考例句:
  • But hope is a mistaken emotion in our business. It'supplants reason, It'supplants rigor dollarstocks. 但是在我们的商业中,希望是个错误。它替代了理智,替代了严谨–尤其当你的股票成为低价股的时候。
  • A world where the rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle. 这是一个用法治取代恃强凌弱规则的世界。
16 interface e5Wx1     
n.接合部位,分界面;v.(使)互相联系
参考例句:
  • My computer has a network interface,which allows me to get to other computers.我的计算机有网络接口可以与其它计算机连在一起。
  • This program has perspicuous interface and extensive application. 该程序界面明了,适用范围广。
17 converse 7ZwyI     
vi.谈话,谈天,闲聊;adv.相反的,相反
参考例句:
  • He can converse in three languages.他可以用3种语言谈话。
  • I wanted to appear friendly and approachable but I think I gave the converse impression.我想显得友好、平易近人些,却发觉给人的印象恰恰相反。
18 trophies e5e690ffd5b76ced5606f229288652f6     
n.(为竞赛获胜者颁发的)奖品( trophy的名词复数 );奖杯;(尤指狩猎或战争中获得的)纪念品;(用于比赛或赛跑名称)奖
参考例句:
  • His football trophies were prominently displayed in the kitchen. 他的足球奖杯陈列在厨房里显眼的位置。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The hunter kept the lion's skin and head as trophies. 这猎人保存狮子的皮和头作为纪念品。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
19 dubbed dubbed     
v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 );把…称为;配音;复制
参考例句:
  • Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
  • Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的? 来自《简明英汉词典》
20 orthography MvzyD     
n.拼字法,拼字式
参考例句:
  • In dictionaries,words are listed according to their orthography.在词典中,词是按照字母拼写顺序排列的。
  • American and English orthography are very much alike.美语与英语的拼字方法非常相像。
21 contraction sn6yO     
n.缩略词,缩写式,害病
参考例句:
  • The contraction of this muscle raises the lower arm.肌肉的收缩使前臂抬起。
  • The forces of expansion are balanced by forces of contraction.扩张力和收缩力相互平衡。
22 Founder wigxF     
n.创始者,缔造者
参考例句:
  • He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
  • According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说,罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
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