2022年11月19日 VOA慢速英语：拼字游戏词典增加了 500 个新单词

 

Scrabble is a popular word game in which players put letters of the alphabet together to form words. It helps when a player remembers unusual words to use in the game.
拼字游戏是一种流行的文字游戏，玩家可以在其中将字母拼在一起组成单词。当玩家记住在游戏中使用的不寻常单词时，它会有所帮助。
 
This month, the game is about to get more interesting with 500 new words and variations added to The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.
本月，官方拼字游戏玩家词典中添加了 500 个新单词和变体，游戏将变得更加有趣。
 
Some of the new words include stan, sitch, convo, zedonk, dox, and fauxhawk. They will be a part of the more than 100,000 words of two to eight letters in the dictionary.
一些新词包括 stan、sitch、convo、zedonk、dox 和 fauxhawk。它们将成为字典中超过 100,000 个由 2 到 8 个字母组成的单词的一部分。
 
The book was last brought up to date in 2018 through a longstanding partnership between Hasbro, the maker of Scrabble, and the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
这本书的最后一次更新是在 2018 年，由拼字游戏的制造商孩之宝和和韦氏词典。
 
New words
新词
 
Peter Sokolowski is Merriam-Webster's editor at large. He said the editors look at the often-updated online database at Merriam-Webster.com to expand the Scrabble dictionary.
Peter Sokolowski 是韦氏词典的特约编辑。他说，编辑们会查看 Merriam-Webster.com 上经常更新的在线数据库，以扩充拼字游戏词典。
 
But Scrabble players only look for eight-letter words that help them clear their racks for 50 extra points. Sokolowski said the new word fauxhawk has the highest possible points for a new word.
但拼字游戏玩家只寻找八个字母的单词，以帮助他们清空 50加分。 Sokolowski 说新词 fauxhawk 的新词得分最高。
 
Fauxhawk is a haircut similar to a Mohawk. Embiggen, a verb meaning to increase in size, is among the unexpected. For example, "I really need to embiggen that Scrabble dictionary."
Fauxhawk 是一种类似于莫霍克的发型。 Embiggen 是一个意为增大尺寸的动词，是意想不到的。例如，“我真的需要把那本拼字游戏词典弄明白。”
 
Other eight-letter words include hogsbane, more commonly known as giant hogweed, and pranayam, a breathing technique in yoga.
其他八个字母的单词包括 hogsbane（通常称为 giant hogweed）和 pranayam（瑜伽中的一种呼吸技巧）。
 
The new words include shorter versions of other words like guac for guacamole. And there are more variations in the use of nouns as verbs, like adulted and adulting.
新单词包括其他单词的较短版本，例如鳄梨酱的 guac。名词用作动词的变化也更多，例如 adulted 和 adulting。
 
Sokolowski told the Associated Press, "We also turned verb into a verb so you can play verbed and verbing."
Sokolowski 告诉美联社，“我们还将动词变成了动词，这样你就可以玩 verbed 和 verbing。”
 
Compound words are words created by combining two or more words. In the new dictionary, there are deadname, pageview, babymoon, and subtweet. So are words with "un," such as unfollow and unsub. They may sound familiar, but they were never in Scrabble's official dictionary.
复合词是由两个或多个词组合而成的词。在新词典中，有 deadname、pageview、babymoon 和 subtweet。带有“un”的词也是如此，例如 unfollow 和 unsub。它们听起来可能很耳熟，但它们从未出现在 Scrabble 的官方词典中。
 
The new dictionary includes at least one old-sounding word that simply was forgotten for years: yeehaw.
新词典至少包含一个多年来被遗忘的古老单词：yeehaw。
 
"Yeehaw is like so many of the older, informal terms. They were more spoken than written, and the gold standard for dictionary editing was always written evidence. So a term like yeehaw, which we all know from our childhood and in movies and TV, was something you heard. You didn't read it that often," Sokolowski said.
“Yeehaw 就像许多古老的非正式术语一样。它们口语多于书面，字典编辑的黄金标准始终是书面证据。所以像 yeehaw 这样的词，我们从童年和电影电视中都知道，是你听到的东西。你没有经常读它，”Sokolowski 说。
 
Other words
其他词
 
The editors have also added many new words related to food. They include iftar, horchata, kabocha, mofongo, zoodle, wagyu, and queso.
编辑们还添加了很多与食物相关的新词。它们包括 iftar、horchata、kabocha、mofongo、zoodle、wagyu 和 queso。
 
Scrabble players, however, only care about scoring more points with the words than their meaning.
然而，拼字游戏玩家只关心单词得分多于单词含义。
 
But if you want to know: Iftar is a meal taken by Muslims at sundown to break the daily fast during the holiday season of Ramadan. Mofongo is a traditional food from Puerto Rico. Horchata is a sweet drink and kabocha is a winter squash.
但如果你想知道：开斋饭是穆斯林在日落时吃的一顿饭，以打破斋月假期期间的每日禁食。 Mofongo 是波多黎各的传统食品。 Horchata 是一种甜饮料，而 kabocha 是一种冬南瓜。
 
For the rest, you will have to look them up yourself.
其余的，您必须自己查找。
 
Hunt them down
寻找它们
 
In the last year or two, Scrabble has also removed more than 200 offensive words. They may, however, still be present in older Scrabble dictionaries.
在最近一两年里，Scrabble 还删除了 200 多个冒犯性的词。然而，它们可能仍然出现在旧的拼字游戏词典中。
 
Sokolowski would not say what all the 500 new words were. He said the players should hunt them down on their own. And he added, "You've got some fun new words."
Sokolowski 不会说这 500 个新单词是什么。他说球员们应该自己去追捕他们。他补充说，“你有一些有趣的新词。”
 
So which new word is his favorite? "I like eggcorn," Sokolowski said, "because it's a word about words."
他最喜欢哪个新词？ “我喜欢蛋玉米，”索科罗斯基说，“因为它是关于文字的文字。”
 
The dictionary says eggcorn is a word or phrase that sounds like and is mistakenly used for another word.
字典上说 eggcorn 是一个听起来像的词或短语，但被错误地用作另一个词。