生活英语|回顾--2002年时尚英语词语(4)

Bonus California Youthspeak Phenomenon of Note

1. Up Talking Ending all sentences with a rising or upward inflection, as if asking a question.

Top Phrases of 2002

1. Threat Fatigue^{1 The dulling of the senses to imminent2 terrorist threats.}

2. Weapons of Mass Destruction The key to whether the US will stage an aggressive attack on Iraq.

3. Suicide Bomber^{3 2002 was a sad year as record numbers of Palestinian youth decided4 to trade their lives for Israeli lives.}

4. Shoe Bomb An idea that might have outperformed Air Jordans landed Richard Reid in jail and initiated^{5 the shoe search at US airports}

5. Infectious enronitis A disease of accounting^{6 practices that spread widely throughout US businesses.}

6. Homeland Security A new phrase of mysterious origins naming the national response to 9/11.

7. Dot communism The conviction that everything on the Web should be free-or, at least, paid for by someone else.

Top 5 Words Coined by President Bush

1. Misunderestimate To seriously underestimate.

2. Embetter To make emotionally better .

3. Resignate To resonate as in, They said this issue wouldn't resignate with the People.

4. Foreign-handed To understand the complexity^{7 of geopolitical realities from the various global perspectives, as in I have a foreign-handed foreign policy.}

5. Analyzation To fully^{8 study a subject, as in This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot.}