其他一些20世纪90年代的常用词,例如“catalogue”(目录)和“drawers”(抽屉),也不得不为21世纪的词汇让道,比方说“Facebook”(脸书)、“internet”(网络)、“Google”(谷歌)、“essentially”(本质上)和“treadmill”(跑步机)。
Figures show that in 2017 the word 'awesome' appears 72 times per million words compared to 'marvellous', which has fallen in use from 155 times per million 20 years ago to only two times per million today.
数据显示“awesome”一词在2017年的出现频率为72次/百万词,与之相比,“marvelous”的使用频率则从20年前的155次/百万词滑落到2次/百万词。
Researchers believe the digital revolution and America's growing influence on our culture have dramatically changed the way British people speak.
研究者认为,信息革命及美国日渐强势的文化影响力使英国人的口语产生了极大的变化。
Language expert Professor Tony McEnery, from the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University, said: 'These very early findings suggest the things that are most important to British society are indeed reflected in the amount we talk about them.
兰卡斯特大学社会科学语料库方法ESRC中心的语言专家托尼·麦克恩尼利表示:“这些前期发现表明,什么才是对英国社会最重要的东西确实能够通过人们经常谈论的话题得到反映。”
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