“Facebook”进入《柯林斯词典》

The site's soaring popularity has won its inclusion in the 2008 edition of the Collins English Dictionary, according to a Collins spokeswoman.
柯林斯词典的一位女发言人说，该网站的盛名为它在2008年版的柯林斯英语词典中赢得了一席之地。

Editors have defined the term as both a trademarked noun referring to "a popular social networking website", and as a verb, meaning "to search for (a person's profile) on the Facebook website".
编辑们给这个词定义了两种词义。一是作为名词的商标名字，意思是“一个流行的社交网站”；另一个是作为动词，意为“在Facebook网站搜索（个人资料）”。

The dictionary gives as an example of the word's usage: "I thought one of the interviewees was perfect for the job, until I Facebooked him."
关于这个词的用法，词典给了一个例句：“我本以为其中的一个面试者很适合这个工作，但是在Facebook查询他的资料之后改变了主意。”

The spokeswoman said: "'Facebook' has been the phenomenon of 2007."Though social networking has been around for several years, this year has seen it break into the mainstream, with 200,000 signing up every day."
这位女发言人说：“‘Facebook’已经成为了2007年的一个现象。”虽然交友网站出现了许多年，但是在今年打入了互联网的主流，每天的注册用户多达二十万。