剑桥词典2019年度词汇出炉 “升级回收”体现环保关切_BEC初级作文

剑桥词典2019年度词汇出炉 “升级回收”体现环保关切

Other words on the shortlist for Word of the Year 2019 reflect the same concern with the effects of climate change, for instance:

其他入围的2019年度词汇也反映了对于气候变化影响同样的担忧，比如：

carbon sink noun

碳汇（名词）

An area of forest that is large enough to absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the earth's atmosphere and therefore to reduce the effect of global warming

森林面积大到足以吸收地球大气中大量的二氧化碳，从而减少全球变暖的影响

compostable adjective

可堆肥的（形容词）

Something that is compostable can be used as compost when it decays

可用来制作肥料的东西，腐烂后可以用作堆肥

The Cambridge Dictionary editors use data from the website, blogs, and social media to identify and prioritise new additions to the Dictionary. They identified upcycling as a word to include after noticing a spike in searches for the word in 2010.

剑桥词典的编辑们使用来自网站、博客和社交媒体的数据来识别和优先考虑词典的新词条。他们在2010年注意到“升级回收”的搜索量激增，于是将之收录进来。

A recent addition is the noun plastic footprint, defined as a measurement of the amount of plastic that someone uses and then discards, considered in terms of the resulting damage caused to the environment. This word, first identified by traditional citation gathering, received 1,048 votes in the New Words blog poll, with 61% of readers opting for the phrase to be added to Cambridge Dictionary.