柯林斯詞典年年度詞彙出爐

Widespread concern about environmental degradation caused by discarded plastics has led Britain's Collins Dictionary to name "single-use" as its English-language word of the year for 2018.

廢棄塑料導致的環境退化引發了廣泛擔憂，這促使英國柯林斯詞典將“single-use（一次性的）”評爲其2018年年度英語詞彙。

It beats "MeToo" and "whitewash" to take first place in the top 10 list released last Wednesday.

在上週三公佈的前10名單中，single-use擊敗MeToo（“我也是”運動）和whitewash（洗白，即由白人演員飾演少數族裔角色）奪魁。

Collins said each nominated word "reflects an ever-evolving culture and the preoccupations of those who use it".

柯林斯稱，每個候選詞彙都“反映了不斷髮展的文化及其使用者關注的事物”。

Collins said "single-use", which describes one-use-only items "whose unchecked proliferation are blamed for damaging the environment and affecting the food chain", has undergone a fourfold increase in usage since 2013.

柯林斯表示，single-use是描述一次性用品的詞彙，自2013年以來其使用頻率提高了4倍。一次性用品的肆意氾濫被認爲是破壞環境、影響食物鏈的原因。

"Vegan", a word describing people who avoid animal products, and "plogging", a fitness craze born in Scandinavia that combines jogging with picking up litter, were other environment-related words to make the list.

進入候選名單的環境相關詞彙還有vegan（素食主義者，不食用動物製品的人）和plogging（發源於斯堪的納維亞的邊慢跑邊撿垃圾的健身熱）。

Helen Newstead, Collins' head of language content, said: "This has been a year where awareness and often anger over a variety of issues has led to the rise of new words and the revitalization and adaptation of old ones."

柯林斯的語言內容負責人海倫·紐斯特德稱：“今年，公衆對種種問題的的認知、通常是憤怒使新詞涌現，也讓舊詞重新流行、衍生新義。”