这个词可以追溯到1685年,源于后期拉丁语existentialis。词典网站Dictionary.com将存在主义定义为“存在的或与存在有关的”,或“哲学存在主义的,或与哲学存在主义有关的,或具有哲学存在主义特征的;关注由个人自由选择所决定的人类存在的本质”。
Climate, guns and the impeachment crisis for Donald Trump were just a few areas that seemed to frame debate in existential terms. So did the Notre Dame fire, tensions between the United States and China, and Big Tech’s privacy and fake news problems.
气候、枪支和唐纳德·特朗普的弹劾危机只是少数几个从存在主义角度引发辩论的领域。巴黎圣母院失火、中美关系紧张、大科技公司的隐私和假资讯问题也是如此。
impeachment [ɪmˈpiːtʃmənt]:n.弹劾;控告
“We started to see existential in the dialogue beginning in January and all the way through the year,” said Jennifer Steeves-Kiss, Dictionary.com’s chief executive officer. “This is a consistent theme that we saw in our data, but it also was leveraged across many different important questions of our time.”
词典网站Dictionary.com的首席执行官珍妮弗•斯蒂维斯-基思说:“从今年1月开始,一直到今年年底,我们都能从对话中看到存在主义。这是我们在数据中看到的一个永恒的主题,但它也用在了当今时代许多不同的重要问题上。”
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