Once the sole preserve of tacky tourist T-shirts, the heart symbol – as in I ‘heart’ New York – has become the first graphical entry in the Oxford English Dictionary in its 127-year history.

在牛津英語詞典127年的歷史中，首次將愛心符號收錄當做正式單詞，即正如上圖中出現(xiàn)在T恤中表示“I 'heart' New York”的符號。

The entry is one of several controversial phrases among 45,436 new definitions in the latest online edition of the OED.

這次收錄的心形符號是牛津在線詞典最新收錄的45, 436個新詞條中比較受爭議的一個。（OED:?Oxford English Dictionary ）

Others include the text message abbreviation OMG, meaning ‘oh my God’, ‘Wags’, for footballers’ wives and girlfriends, and ‘singledom’, to reflect the growing number of single people.

其他的諸如短消息縮寫詞“OMG”，表示的就是“Oh my God.”的意思；“Wags”表示足球運動員的“wives and girlfriends（妻子和女友們）”（最早被英國媒體用來形容貝克漢姆的老婆及其隊友的太太和女友們），而“singledom”指的則是日益增長的單身群體。

Record levels of obesity have led to the inclusion of ‘muffin top’, meaning ‘a(chǎn) roll of flesh which hangs visibly over a person’s tight-fitting waistband’.

急速增長的肥胖人群促使“muffin top”（松餅頂）被收錄詞條，意思是指某人（特別是女性）緊褲腰勒出來的腰部贅肉。（類似于中文說的“游泳圈”）

Graeme Diamond, of the OED, said: ‘While symbols do become spelt-out words relatively frequently, it is usually only with a mundane meaning as the name of the symbol – ‘star’ for *, ‘hash’ for #, and so on. It’s very unusual for it to happen in such an evocative and tangential way.

牛津英語詞典表示：“雖然大家的確經(jīng)常將符號讀出來，但是它通常也只是表示一些比較單一的意思，比如說‘星號’表示*，‘井號’表示#之類的。很少會像愛心符號這樣能喚起人們的共鳴，”

‘In English since the late 12th century, the heart has been thought of as the seat of love and affection.’

“自12世紀后半葉以來，單詞heart在英語中就已經(jīng)用來表示愛與感情了?！?/div>

The OED, widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language, contains the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words – past and present – from across the English-speaking world.

被廣泛譽為英語典范的大詞典，牛津詞典收錄了600,000個單詞的意思，來源，發(fā)音，過去時，現(xiàn)在時等內(nèi)容。

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