Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 6th. In less than a month, 2020 will be "turned over". Looking back on this year that was shrouded by the epidemic, which keywords came to my mind? Recently, many foreign institutions have selected the vocabulary of the year and summarized it for 2020. At the same time, these words revolve around this epidemic and point out various pain points of the magical year.
The new crown epidemic is undoubtedly the common enemy faced by the whole world this year, and it is also the word that left the deepest impression on the whole world. Therefore, many of the annual vocabulary selected by many institutions are related to the new crown epidemic.
United States: Pandemic
American Webster's Dictionary and American Dictionary Network both rated "pandemic" as the vocabulary of the year.
Webster's Dictionary says that according to data statistics, the word "pandemic" has been queried significantly higher this year than in previous years. On March 11 this year, the WHO announced that the new crown epidemic constituted a "pandemic". The number of inquiries on that day of this term increased by 115,806% compared with 2019, and its popularity was close to the top of the hot search terms throughout the year.
March 11, at Geneva, Switzerland, , Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke at a regular press conference. On the same day, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the new crown pneumonia epidemic can be characterized by a pandemic. Xinhua News Agency Photo by Chen Junxia
Dictionary Network explained this decision, and this year the COVID-19 pandemic has killed more than 1 million people (now more than 1.5 million people) around the world and has not subsided. The pandemic has caused social and economic impacts at a historical level, which is not a psychological impact on everyone. Other major events that occurred in 2020, including anti-racial discrimination demonstrations and the US election, have all shown particularly fierce situations under the influence of the epidemic.
Germany: 8 related words out of 10 words
The judges of the German Language Association recently commented on the top ten annual words for 2020, 8 of which are related to the new crown epidemic, which shows the popularity of this topic throughout the year.
This is a theater without audience shot in Dortmund, Germany on November 17. Xinhua News Agency/French-1
German Language Association President Peter Schlobinsky said that there are few hot words in Germany throughout the year that revolve around a theme, and this situation last occurred back to the financial crisis that occurred in late 2008.
Schlobinsky said that this year, a group of new words containing "Corona" were born in German language, such as the Corona-Demo, the Coronazahlen, the Corona quarantine, the Covidioten against the Corona restrictions, etc.
Japan: What are the three secrets of "3 secrets"?
Japan's "New Words and Popular Words Award" was announced on December 1, and the word "3 secret (closed, dense, close contact)" in the new crown epidemic prevention slogan won the best award.
The earliest person to use this word was Tokyo Governor Koike Yuriko. In order to facilitate people to better understand the key points of epidemic prevention and control and facilitate operation in life, Yuriko Koike summarized the opinions of epidemic experts as "3 secrets" for strict prevention. Nowadays, strictly preventing the "three secrets" has become a new way of life for Japan's national epidemic prevention and control.
On November 25, a man was traveling wearing a mask in Tokyo, Japan. According to statistics from the Japan Broadcasting Association TV Station, as of 20:30 local time on the 24th, Japan's cumulative number of confirmed cases of new crown has reached 135,846 and the cumulative number of deaths has reached 2,015. None of these data contains the Diamond Princess cruise ship cases. Xinhua News Agency/American
Other words related to the new crown epidemic have also been selected as the annual buzzword. For example, the "GO TO Promotion" policy implemented by the Japanese government to promote sightseeing and dining out, various offline activities affected by the epidemic have been transferred to the online "Online 00" and the "AMABIE" that can cure all diseases on social networking websites, etc. have been selected as the top ten buzzwords of the year.
In addition, there are also some entertainment works titles, such as the abbreviation of the simulation business game released by Nintendo , the Korean TV series "Crash Landing of Love" and the super popular comic work "Demon Slayer: Blade" are also selected.
Japan's "New Words and Popular Words Award" is sponsored by Japan's Freedom National Socialist Republic of China. New words and buzzwords of the year are announced on December 1 every year. (Reporters: Zhang Yuan, Guo Dan, Liu Yang; Editors: Xu Xiaolei, Sun Hao)
