十月第1周新词（Weekly Newbee Words）

　　一周全球新鲜和时髦生活方式都会产生新词。大伙与翻吧君一起来看看这些新词讲述的新鲜事和时髦生活方式吧！

　　1thunder fever：雪电花粉热

　　2digital amnesia：数字失忆症

　　3dental desert：牙医荒漠

　　4nerd power：计算机电能

　　5super cookie：超级终端数据存储文件

　　6smart desk：智能办公桌

　　thunder fever：雪电花粉热

　　UK /?θ?n.d? fi?.v??/

　　US /?θ?n.d? fi?.v?/

　　a more serious form of hay fever that people can experience when there is a high pollen count and thundery weather at the same time

　　一种程度更为严重的花粉热，患者身处的地方花粉量更多，同时出现了打雷现象。

　　例句：

　　A high pollen count mixed with thunderstorms will trigger a weather phenomenon called “thunder fever” this week, causing problems for allergy sufferers, forecasters have warned. The combination of warm weather, strong winds and thundery downpours brought to the UK as a result of the now-downgraded tropical storm Alex are to blame for the conditions expected to affect the country in the coming days.

　　digital amnesia：数字失忆症

　　UK /?d?d?.?.t?l ?m?ni?.zi.?/

　　US /?d?d?.?.t??l ?m?ni?.??/

　　a condition where people become less able to remember things because they are used to looking everything up on the internet.

　　由于习惯了通过网络搜索方式查找内容，记忆能力出现下降的情况。

　　例句：

　　Experts say smartphone addiction could impair the brain’s ability to retain new information and form new memories. This leads to ‘digital amnesia’. What is ‘digital amnesia’? It is basically a phenomenon where brains are losing their ability to remember quickly as people are becoming increasingly reliant on technology.

　　来源：news18.com, 5 January 2022

　　dental desert：牙医荒漠

　　UK /?den.t?l ?dez.?t/

　　US /?den.t??l ?dez.?t/

　　an area where there are not enough dentists to give everyone who lives there dental care, or where it is very difficult to get affordable or state-funded dental care

　　在某一下地区里，牙医数量不能满足本地的需要，或是价格高昂以及无法使用医保付费

　　例句：

　　Parts of England, including Suffolk, are becoming “dental deserts”, with no access to NHS dentistry for residents, an MP has told Westminster. Mr Aldous said the lack of available NHS dental appointments was a “national crisis”, although the issue in his own constituency was “acute”. “There are now parts of the country, particularly in rural and coastal areas, though not confined there, that are dental deserts.”

　　nerd power：计算机电能

　　informalheat generated by computers and used, for example to heat places

　　计算机运行产生的热能，并可用于供热

　　例句：

　　All computers produce heat, but computer servers produce a lot of heat – so much that it usually costs a fortune to cool them down. So why isn’t this heat used instead to keep homes or offices warm? Actually, ‘nerd power’ is already being tried out.

　　super cookie：超级终端数据存储文件

　　a cookie that is intended to be stored on a computer and cannot be deleted in the usual way

　　一种存储在电脑里的终端数据存储文件，无法使用通常的方式删除。

　　例句：

　　The program was dubbed a ‘super cookie’ because it is more powerful than a regular Web tracking cookie that users can delete.

　　smart desk：智能办公桌

　　a computerized desk that can be raised for use while standing and can monitor such things as the user’s movements, time spent at the desk sitting or standing, and calories burnt, and prompt the user to move about or stand up, etc.

　　一种安装了软件的桌子，可以随时打开使用并监控使用者的活动、使用时间以及桌子的使用状况以及热量消耗情况，同时还能督促使用者离开桌子活动或是站立等。

　　例句：

　　The reason to buy a smart desk is because you, like most Americans, discover you are sitting your life away.

　　来源：/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/smart-desks-to-keep-you-moving/ (tech blog) 02 June 2015

　　编辑：翻吧君

　　来源：剑桥英语词典