The Oxford Word of the Year is a word or expression that is judged to reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the passing year, and have lasting potential as a term of cultural significance.
牛津年度詞彙是一個被認為反映了過去一年的風氣、情緒或關注點，並具有持久的文化意義的詞彙或表達。
In 2018, toxic added many strings to its poisoned bow becoming an intoxicating descriptor for the year’s most talked about topics. It is the sheer scope of its application, as found by our research, that made toxic the stand-out choice for the Word of the Year title.
在2018年，「有毒」就像在有毒的琴弓上添加了許多琴弦一樣，成為了今年最熱門話題的令人陶醉的描述詞。正如我們的研究所發現的那樣，正是它的應用範圍之廣，使得toxic成為年度詞彙的絕佳選擇。
Our data shows that, along with a 45% rise in the number of times it has been looked up on oxforddictionaries.com, over the last year the word toxic has been used in an array of contexts, both in its literal and more metaphorical senses.
我們的數據顯示，在牛津在線詞典上被查到的次數增加了45%的同時，「有毒」一詞在過去的一年裡被用在了各種字面意義和隱喻意義的語境中。
Drawn from our corpus, the top 10 toxic collocates for the year – that is, words habitually used alongside toxic – are indicative of this.
從我們的語料庫中可以看出，今年排名前十的「有毒」詞——也就是說，習慣與「有毒」一起使用的詞——就說明了這一點。