Dictionary.com新增数百新单词

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From “alt-right” and “teachable moment” to “slay” and “dabbing,” Dictionary.com has added hundreds of new words that define 2017.
The online dictionary picks its additions each year based on what users are searching on the site. This year, those words ranged from politics and food to marijuana and slang.

“Our users turn to us to define the words they see, hear, and read — and in today’s highly politicized world, we play a necessary role in helping users dissect the meaning of words heard in this period of political discourse,” said Dictionary.com CEO Liz McMillan in a statement.

"Alt-right,” which saw a spike in interest during the 2016 election, is now defined on Dictionary.com as a political movement “composed of a segment of conservatives who support extreme right-wing ideologies, including white nationalism and anti-Semitism.” The website also defined "clicktivism" as the “use of the Internet to organize and promote political or social cause and movements.”

Dictionary.com also defined marijuana-related slang terms including “420” and “kush," following referendums on the recreational legalization of the drug in several states last year.

In music, Beyoncé served as inspiration for the addition of “slay,” a verb that means “to strongly impress or overwhelm someone." (Dictionary.com also still includes the word's original definition: "to kill by violence.")

And Dictionary.com now offers a detailed definition of “dabbing,” popularized recently by the rap group Migos: “the act of performing a dance move that involves posing with one’s nose in the crook of a bent elbow at chest level while extending the other arm to the side at or above shoulder level, often as a celebratory posture in sports or other competitions.”

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Dictionary.com新增了数百个定义2017年的新词汇，包括“alt-right”、“teachable moment”以及“slay”和“dabbing”等。

该在线词典每年都会从用户在网站上查找的内容中，挑选出新词条。今年，这些词条涉及政治、食品、以及和大麻相关的俚语等。
Dictionary.com CEO利兹•麦克米兰在一份声明中表示：“用户希望我们的网站能够释义他们所看到、听到和读到的单词。在当今高度政治化的世界，帮助用户剖析在这一时期的政治话语中听到的单词是我们义不容辞的事情。”

在2016年美国大选期间，“Alt-right”的热度突然升高，目前Dictionary.com对这个词的定义是一种“包括支持白人民族主义和反犹太主义等极端右翼意识形态的部分保守主义者”的政治运动。网站对“clicktivism”的定义为“利用互联网，组织和宣传政治或社会事业与运动。”

Dictionary.com还定义了与大麻相关的俚语，包括去年美国多个州就娱乐用大麻合法化举行公投之后出现的“420”和“kush”。

在音乐方面，受碧昂斯的启发，网站增加了动词“slay”，意思是“强烈地打动或压垮某人”。（Dictionary.com上还有这个词的原始定义：“暴力杀害”。）

Dictionary.com还详细解释了最近因为嘻哈团体Migos而流行起来的一个词--“dabbing”：“一种舞蹈动作，舞者将一只胳膊弯曲放在胸部位置，鼻子放在肘部，另一只胳膊向外伸出到肩部位置或高于肩部，常被作为体育运动或其他竞赛的庆祝姿势。”