眼下新冠病毒依然在全球肆虐，疫情相關詞頻頻入選各大詞典的年度詞匯，《韋氏詞典》也不例外。該詞典選出的2021年度詞匯是從去年火到今年的“疫苗”（vaccine）。

"Vaccine" is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. The word was selected based on lookup data, notable spikes, and year-over-year increases in searches.

《韋氏詞典》的年度詞匯是“疫苗”。該詞是基于查詢數(shù)據(jù)、訪問量峰值和同比搜索增加量選出的。

"This is a word that has kind of two parallel but intersecting stories: one is a medical story, and one is a political story or a cultural story," said Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster's editor-at-large.

《韋氏詞典》的特約編輯彼得·索科洛夫斯基說：“這個詞有兩個平行又相交的故事，一個是醫(yī)學上的，還有一個是政治或文化上的。”

On the site, lookups for "vaccine" shot up 601% over 2020, especially toward the latter part of the year when the first US shot was administered in December. There was a 1,048% increase in site lookups this year compared to 2019.

《韋氏詞典》網站上“疫苗”一詞的查詢量在2020年飆升了601%，下半年搜索量更高，尤其是去年12月美國接種第一劑疫苗之時。2021年“疫苗”一詞的查詢量比2019年增加了1048%。

And searches have remained stable through late fall, especially with talk about the Omicron variant and the efficacy of vaccines in stopping it.

而且該詞搜索量一直到秋末都居高不下，尤其是在奧密克戎毒株引發(fā)有關疫苗有效性的討論之后。

《韋氏詞典》其他年度詞匯候選

One notable runner-up word was "insurrection," searches for which increased by 61,000% on January 7, the day after the January 6 siege on the US Capitol.

一個值得注意的候選年度詞匯是“暴動”，由于美國國會大廈在1月6日遭遇襲擊，該詞在1月7日的搜索量暴增61000%。

Another runner-up was "perseverance," the name of NASA's latest Mars rover, which landed February 18. The name was chosen by a seventh-grader in Virginia who participated in an essay contest organized by NASA.

另一個重要的候選年度詞匯是“毅力”，是美國宇航局最新的火星探測器的名字。“毅力號”于2月18日登陸火星。這個名字是美國宇航局通過作文比賽公開征集名稱時選中的，提交這個名稱的是弗吉尼亞州的一名七年級學生。

Other words in Merriam-Webster’s Top 10 include Cicada (we had an invasion), guardian (the Cleveland Indians became the Cleveland Guardians), meta (the lofty new name of Facebook’s parent company), cisgender (a gender identity that corresponds to one’s sex assigned at birth) and woke (charged with politics and political correctness).

入選《韋氏詞典》候選年度詞匯前十名的還包括：蟬（因大舉入侵美國而入選）、守衛(wèi)者（美國棒球隊克里夫蘭印地安人更名為克里夫蘭守衛(wèi)者）、元（臉書母公司高大上的新名字）、順性別者（自我性別認定和出生時的生理性別相同的人）和警醒（滿腦子都是政治正確性）。

英文來源：美國有線電視新聞網、泰晤士報

翻譯&編輯：丹妮