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  • The Oxford word of the year for 2018 has just been announced. It was chosen from a shortlist

  • of nine words that have come to prominence this year and today I'm going to teach you

  • this word. So don't go anywhere.

  • Every year the Oxford dictionary chooses a word of the year. In 2016 it was Brexit and

  • in 2017 it was fake news. The criteria for choosing this word are fairly simple. It must

  • reflect the mood or important events or issues of the passing year. And if you look back

  • to 2016 and 2017 I think they did a good job. And in 2018 I think they have done it again.

  • So the 2018 word of the year is 'Toxic'. Let's unpack why they chose this word. Well firstly

  • there was a forty-five percent rise in the number of times that it was looked up on the

  • Oxford online dictionary. And what this shows us is that there is a huge increase in the

  • number of people who want to understand this word and maybe use it. Now toxic is not a

  • new word, it's been around for a long time. Traditionally it's collocated with toxic chemicals,

  • toxic fumes, toxic substance but in 2018 there have been some brand new collocations with

  • toxic that we are going to look at right now. For example toxic masculinity. This is the

  • idea that men must play stereotypical male roles such as being unemotional, aggressive

  • dominant. And this is being contrasted this year with the #MeToo movement which has really

  • shone a light on these negative male practices. So an example sentence 'Toxic masculinity

  • is a real problem in my country.' Another new collocation is a toxic relationship. Now

  • this is a relationship that can be damaging either emotionally or physically. It could

  • be found at your workplace with a colleague, it could be with family with friends or it

  • could be with your romantic partner. It's a relationship that's really negative. For

  • example my brother has got a really toxic relationship with his flatmate.And the third

  • collocation that has become frequently used now is a toxic environment. This extends the

  • idea of the toxic relationship but it puts it into a place. So it could be your work

  • place, it could be at home, it could be anywhere. So it's a place that's damaging to you, it

  • could be emotionally, physically, mentally. Maybe at work there's a culture of bullying

  • well this would be a very toxic environment to work in. So as you can see this word has

  • a wide use and is deeply relevant to the times that we are living in today. Such turbulent

  • times a lot of conflict. So I can see why Oxford chose toxic to be their word of the

  • year. If you would like to try and use this word toxic with any of the collocations that

  • we have looked at. It could be relationship, environment, masculinity or any other use,

  • put it into an example sentence into the comments below and I will come down and have a look

  • at it and see if it's correct. I'll be back next Friday with a look at the other words

  • on the shortlist for word of the year. After all keeping you up to date with fresh modern

  • British English is what we do here at Eat Sleep Dream English. So I'm looking forward

  • to that video, it'll be out on Friday. Remember you can become a member of the Eat Sleep Dream

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  • until next time guys, this is Tom, the Chief Dreamer saying goodbye.

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2018年度詞條(牛津詞典 (2018 Word of the Year (Oxford Dictionary))

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