《牛津英語詞典》最近收錄了一批新冠肺炎疫情流行用語，「WFH」(在家辦公)、「保持社交距離」和「自我隔離」等詞彙都被納入其中。
With terms such as WFH, social distancing and self-isolation now in commonparlance, the Oxford English Dictionary has made an extraordinary update to include COVID-19 and words related to the pandemic in its definitive record of the English language.
隨著「WFH」(work from home，在家辦公)、「保持社交距離」和「自我隔離」等詞彙成為常用詞，《牛津英語詞典》進行了一次非常規更新，將新冠肺炎疫情相關詞彙納入其中。
parlance [ˈpɑːləns]：n.說法;用語
The dictionary’s executive editor Bernadette Paton said that it was 「a rare experience for lexicographers to observe an exponential rise in usage of a single word in a very short period of time, and for that word to come overwhelmingly to dominate the global discourse, even to the exclusion of most other topics」.
《牛津英語詞典》執行編輯伯納黛特·帕頓說：「在很短的時間內觀察到一個詞彙的使用量呈指數級上升，並壓倒性地主導全球語言趨勢，甚至讓大多數其他話題毫無容身之地，這對詞典編纂者來說非常罕見。」
exponential [ˌekspəˈnenʃl]：adj.指數的
COVID-19 has done that, and has thus been added as a new entry in the OED, where it is described as 「an acute respiratory illness in humans caused by a coronavirus, which is capable of producing severe symptoms and death, esp. in the elderly and others with underlying health conditions」.
「新冠肺炎」就是這樣一個詞，也由此成為《牛津英語詞典》中新增加的一個詞條，其定義為「一種由冠狀病毒引起的人類急性呼吸道疾病，能產生嚴重的症狀，致人死亡，特別是對老年人和有其他潛在健康問題的人群。」
「As something of a departure, this update comes outside of our usual quarterly publication cycle,」 said Paton. 「But these are extraordinary times, and OED lexicographers, who like many others are all working from home … are tracking the development of the language of the pandemic and offering a linguistic and historical context to their usage.」
帕頓說：「這次更新有些不同，它不在我們通常的季度發布周期。但現在是非常時期，《牛津英語詞典》的編纂者們和其他許多人一樣，都是在家工作，他們正在追蹤新冠肺炎疫情時期語言的發展，並為其詞彙的用法提供語言和歷史背景。」
The OED’s analysis of more than 8bn words of online news stories found that coronavirus and COVID-19, a shortening of coronavirus disease 2019, are now dominating global discourse. While back in December, words such as Brexit, impeachment and climate dominated news, by January, coronavirus was seeing significant use alongside current affairs terms such as bushfire, koala, Iraqi, locust and assassination. By March every single word in the OED’s top 20 list of keywords was related to coronavirus.
《牛津英語詞典》分析了包含80多億個詞彙的網絡新聞，發現冠狀病毒和COVID-19(2019年新冠肺炎的縮寫)現在主導著全球的討論。去年12月，「英國脫歐」、「彈劾」、「氣候」等詞彙佔據了新聞頭條，而到了今年1月，「冠狀病毒」與「叢林大火」、「考拉」、「伊拉克」、「蝗蟲」、「暗殺」等時事詞彙一起被大量使用。今年3月，《牛津英語詞典》列出的20個最關鍵詞彙中的每一個單詞都與冠狀病毒有關。