Expect cheers among hardcore online game enthusiasts when they learn Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. Or, more accurately, expect them to "w00t."

当铁杆网络游戏迷们得知《韦氏大词典》 “2007年度词汇”的评选结果时,他们一定会欢呼跃雀跃——或者更准确的说,他们会说“w00t”。

"W00t," a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness, topped all other terms in the Springfield dictionary publisher's online poll for the word that best sums up 2007.

在《韦氏大词典》(总部位于斯布林菲尔德)“2007年度词汇” 的在线评选中,“w00t”击败其它词汇拔得头筹。“W00t”是字母与数字的“混搭词”,网络游戏玩家在玩得很爽或打败对方时常会说这个词。

Merriam-Webster's president, John Morse, said "w00t" was an ideal choice because it blends whimsy and new technology.

《韦氏大词典》总裁约翰•莫斯说,“w00t”一词既新奇,又体现了新技术,无疑是今年年度词汇的最佳选择。

"It shows a really interesting thing that's going on in language. It's a term that's arrived only because we're now communicating electronically with each other," Morse said.

莫斯说:“它体现了当今语言发展中一个十分有趣的现象。“W00t”这个词之所以流行,正是因为我们进入了‘电子化交流’时代。”

Gamers commonly substitute numbers and symbols for the letters they resemble, Morse says, creating what they call "l33t speak" - that's "leet" when spoken, short for "elite" to the rest of the world.

莫斯说,游戏玩家通常用数字和符号来代替字母。他们创造出了一种“l33t speak”“精英语言”(网络黑话),“l33t”读作“leet”,是elite(精英)一词的缩写。

For technophobes, the word also is familiar from the 1990 movie "Pretty Woman," in which Julia Roberts startles her date's upper-crust friends with a hearty "Woot, woot, woot!" at a polo match.

即使对网络和游戏不感兴趣的人,对“w00t”这个词也不应该陌生。在1990年的影片《风月俏佳人》中,由朱莉娅•罗伯茨饰演的女主角在观看马球比赛时,大喊“woot!woot!woot!”,令她约会对象的那些上层社会朋友惊诧不已。

The 2006 pick, "truthiness," also has its roots in pop culture.

2006年的年度词汇“truthiness”也植根于流行文化。

Some also-rans in the 2007 list: the use of "facebook" as a verb to signify using the website by that name; nuanced terms such as "quixotic" and "hypocrite"; and "blamestorm," a meeting in which mistakes are aired, fingers are pointed and much discomfort is had by all.

入围《韦氏大词典》2007年度流行词排行榜的其它一些词汇包括:“facebook”,用作动词,意为“使用Facebook社交网站;“blamestorm”,指的是一种互相指责、互相推卸责任、令所有人都感觉不爽的会议。(译者注:与brainstorm头脑风暴不同,blamestorm指责风暴常在项目失败后举行)

沪江小编:每个用户访问韦氏词典的网站时,会收到一份邀请,从读者查找最频繁的单词或词组中选出一个年度词汇。结果高中状元的竟然是游戏玩家用来表示快乐的单词“w00t”。你平时都用沪江小D查过什么词呢?快去翻翻你的生词本吧。