雙語新聞：2014年最流行詞語出爐

The most popular word of 2014 has been revealed, and is not actually a word at all but a symbol meaning love.

2014年最流行的詞語出爐。嚴格意義上來說，它并非是一個詞語，而是一個愛的符號。

A heart 'emoji' was the most widely used character in blogs, Twitter and Facebook and in 250,000 global news outlets in the last 12 months, according to analysts.

有分析數(shù)據(jù)顯示，過去的12個月中，博客、推特、臉書以及全球25萬家新聞媒體使用頻率最高的字符是心形“表情符號”。

The increasing prominence of the emoji or emoticon shows how symbols are making their way into the English language with the rise of the internet.

表情符號在英語中大行其道，顯示出網(wǎng)絡(luò)快速發(fā)展時期，符號正在強勢崛起。

There are now 722 recognised characters which portray an emotion, expression, or state of mind, or a person, place or thing - with another 250 to be made available over the next year. The list was compiled by the Global Language Monitor in Austin, Texas, which analyses the use of words and symbols in blogs, social media and 250,000 of the most popular online and print news outlets across the world.

目前共有722個表現(xiàn)感情、表情、心情，或人、場所、物品的符號。2015年將會新增250個表情符號。位于美國德克薩斯州奧斯丁市的全球語言檢測機構(gòu)（Global Language Monitor）通過分析博客、社交媒體以及全球25萬家主流在線和出版媒體中詞語和符號的使用情況，發(fā)布了2014年度流行詞語榜。

Researchers found the heart emoji appeared billions of times a day across the world.

研究者們發(fā)現(xiàn)全世界每天會出現(xiàn)幾十億個心形符號。

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Other words that rose to popularity in 2014 were 'vape' from the term vaporise, used to refer to electronic or e-cigarettes. This word appeared in the Oxford Dictionary's top word for 2014. Prince George also made the list along with the phenomena blood moon - referring to the blood red colour of the moon after it passes in the earth's shadow, causing the sun's red light to scatter.

2014年其他的流行詞語還有“vape”，演變自“vaporise（蒸發(fā)）”，指代電子煙。該詞在牛津詞典2014年詞語榜上排名第一。喬治王子和血月亮也都榜上有名。血月亮現(xiàn)象是指月亮在脫離地球的陰影后受太陽紅光照射呈現(xiàn)出血紅色的情況。

Paul Payack, president of Global Language Monitor, said: 'The English Language is now undergoing a remarkable transformation unlike any in its 1400 year history - its system of writing, the alphabet, is gaining characters at amazing rate.

全球語言檢測機構(gòu)主席保羅?帕亞克(Paul Payack)表示:”英語正在經(jīng)歷一場1400年來都不曾有過的巨大變革―書寫系統(tǒng)，也就是字母系統(tǒng)正在以驚人的速度吸收各種符號。”

'These character are ideographs or pictographs that are called emoji and emoticons.

“這些符號被叫做表情文字和表情符號，是一種象形或圖形文字。”

'There are about a thousand emoji characters now officially recognised by Unicode Consortium, the official keepers of coding that forms the basis of the internet.

“現(xiàn)在大約有1000個經(jīng)編碼聯(lián)盟（Unicode Consortium）認證的表情符號。編碼聯(lián)盟負責(zé)管理構(gòu)成網(wǎng)絡(luò)基礎(chǔ)的各種程序編碼。”

'They regularly review new suggestions with the next 37 or so being finalised for June 2015.

“他們定期審查每次新增的37條編碼建議，這些建議將在2015年6月得到確認。”

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