Mr Watt wants to bring these words back into modern conversations.
瓦特想将这些词重新带回现代会话中。
"We've identified lost words that are both interesting and thought-provoking, in the hope of helping people re-engage with language of old," he said.
他说:“我们认定了一些又有趣又发人深思的失落的词语,希望帮助人们重新拾起旧时代的语言。”
"Snout-fair", for example, means "having a fair countenance; fair-faced, comely, handsome", while "sillytonian" refers to "a silly or gullible person, esp one considered as belonging to a notional sect of such people".
比如,Snout-fair意思是“面容姣好、漂亮、清秀、英俊”,而sillytonian指的是“易受骗的傻瓜,尤其是被认为属于某一派别的人”。
"Dowsabel" is "applied generically to a sweetheart, 'lady-love'".
Dowsabel是对情人的称呼,相当于lady-love(情妇)。
Margot Leadbetter, the snobby neighbour from 1970s BBC sitcom, The Good Life, could be seen as an arch example of a "percher" - someone "who aspires to a higher rank or status; an ambitious or self-assertive person".
20世纪70年代BBC情景喜剧《美好生活》中的势力邻居玛戈特•利百特可以看作是percher的典型例子,指那种“想谋高位、攀高枝的人,野心勃勃、孤行专断的人”。
The BBC series Trust Me is the story of a "quacksalver" - a person who "dishonestly claims knowledge of, or skill in, medicine; a pedlar of false cures".
BBC电视剧《相信我》讲的就是quacksalver的故事——一个“谎称自己懂医的人、卖假药的江湖郎中”。
The list of 30 "lost words" are grouped into three areas the researchers feel are relevant to modern life: post-truth (deception); appearance, personality and behaviour; and emotions.
这30个“失落的单词”被划入研究人员认为和现代生活相关的三个区域:后真相(欺骗);外表、人格和行为;情感。
The final list also includes the words "ear-rent" - described as "the figurative cost to a person of listening to trivial or incessant talk", "slug-a-bed" - meaning "a person who lies in late", and "merry-go-sorry" - a phrase used to describe "a mixture of joy and sorrow".
最终版清单还包括ear-rent,指“碎碎念给人带来的象征性伤害”,slug-a-bed意思是“睡懒觉的人”,merry-go-sorry形容“悲喜交加”的情绪。 英文来源:BBC
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