The year of 2020 has been so unprecedented that the Oxford English Dictionary has decided for the first time that it would expand the end-of-year ritual to include several words, as they found it impossible to name any single "word of the year".
2020年是史無前例的一年，《牛津詞典》首次決定將年終慣例擴大到涵蓋一些詞彙，因為他們發現無法說出任何一個「年度詞彙」。
Among the words chosen this year were bushfires, lockdown, moonshot, Black Lives Matter, Mail-in and new coinages like COVID-19, blursday and covidiot.
今年入選的詞彙包括「叢林大火」 「封鎖」「登月」 「黑人的生命也是命」「郵寄（選票）」，以及COVID-19、blursday和covidiot等新造詞。
"I've never witnessed a year in language like the one we've just had. The Oxford team was identifying hundreds of significant new words and usages as the year unfolded, dozens of which would have been a slam dunk for Word of the Year at any other time," said Casper Grathwohl, the president of Oxford Dictionaries.
「我從來沒有見過像我們剛剛經歷的一年這樣的語言學習。『』《牛津詞典》主席卡斯帕·格拉斯沃說:「隨著這一年的到來，《牛津詞典》研究團隊確認了數百個重要的新詞和用法，在其他任何時候，其中的幾十個新詞都可以成為『年度詞彙』。」
"It's both unprecedented and a little ironic — in a year that left us speechless, 2020 has been filled with new words unlike any other."
「這既前所未有，又有點諷刺——在一個讓我們無語的年份，2020年充滿了不同於以往的新詞。」