“青年冲击”牛津词典2017年度词汇

"Youthquake", "antifa" and "broflake" might have yet to make it into daily vocabulary.

 

“青年冲击”、“反法西斯行动”（极左翼组织）和“玻璃心男”也许尚未成为日常词汇。

 

But according to the Oxford¹ Dictionaries, they are the words which will define the year 2017.

 

It has announced "youthquake", referring to the rallying of young people by Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party during the 2017 General Election, as its word of the year.

 

The word saw a 400 percent increase in usage between 2016 and 2017, and "highlights the increased awareness² of young people’s capacity to influence, and even drive, political change," it said.

 

Many of the words chosen for the list refer to political turbulence³ and social change.

 

"Antifa", meaning groups united by militant⁴ opposition⁵ to fascism made the list, as did "broflake", a man upset by progressive attitudes which conflict with his more conservative views.

 

Another, "Milkshake Duck", is something which "initially⁶ inspires delight on social media but is soon revealed to have a distasteful or repugnant past".

 

"Kompromat", a Russian word originally based on the English phrase "compromising material", means material used to blackmail⁷ or manipulate someone for political purposes.

 

Others were more light-hearted. "Gorpcore", meaning the trend for wearing functional⁸, outdoorsy clothing, also made the list, alongside "unicorn⁹", referring to the trend for dousing¹⁰ anything from lattes to bagels in rainbow colours and glitter.

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