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Top Ten Words of 200x
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Blog
（网络日记） |
Web logs have come of age and, regrettably, this lexical mutation with them. |
SARS
（严重急性呼吸道症候群） |
Farm animals strike back at the humans who eat them again with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. |
Spam
（垃圾邮件） |
This old word now refers to a plague contending with SARS for destructive potential. |
Taikonaut
（太空飞行员） |
The Chinese astronaut proved that China is a rising industrial power. |
| Bushism（布什主义） |
This word now has a real possibility for remaining in the language. |
Allision
（撞上一个不能移动的物体) |
U.S. National Transportation and Safety Board in investigating the Staten Island ferry tragedy concluded it wasn't a collision (between two moving objects) but an allision (a crash with an immoveable object) |
Recall
（罢免） |
As in California Recall that resulted in the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Governator |
Middangeard
（中等危险） |
Middle English for Middle Earth in the movies of Tolkien's trilogy, still fascinating millions around the world with its characters and insights into the origins of the English language. |
Celibacy
（独身生活） |
The word which holds the key to ending the seemingly eternal scandal of the US Catholic Church. |
Top Ten Phrases of 200x
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Rush to War
（仓促上战场） |
Something the US was accused of by our allies and the slogan of liberals attacked by Limbaugh. |
Tire Pressure
（轮胎压力） |
Announced the imminent disintegration of the Space Shuttle. |
Weapons of Mass Destruction
（大规模杀伤性武器） |
The reason given for the Rush to War. Removing a genocidal maniac wasn't reason enough? |
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\"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.\" |
Guantanamo Bay
（关塔那摩湾） |
The US Justice and Defense Departments thought they would \"Gitmo\" cooperation from suspected terrorists off shore. |
Spider-Hole
（蜘蛛洞） |
Looks like this one is going to stick around for a while: Sen. Lieberman is already accusing Howard Dean of 'crawling into a spider-hole of denial'. |
| Tipping Point |
When any topic moves from one level to the next or the state of a politician one word away from falling flat on his face. |
| Angry Left |
The early followers of Howard Dean seem to have frightened him to the center. |
| Halliburton Energy Services |
Vice President Cheney's old company was supplying our fighting men and women with fuel at enlightened prices before the dust settled in Iraq (if it has settled yet). |
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