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《牛津英语词典》最近收录了一批新冠肺炎疫情流行用语，“WFH”A man relaxes on a bench in London on Wednesday next to a sculpture of Paddington Bear, as the United Kingdom remains in lockdown to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. [FRANK AUGSTEIN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] With terms such as WFH, social distancing and self-isolation now in common parlance, the Oxford English Dictionary has made an extraordinary update to include Covid-19 and words related to the pandemic in its definitive record of the English language. 随着“WFH”parlance[ˈpɑːləns]：n.说法；用语 The dictionary’s executive editor Bernadette Paton said that it was “a rare experience for lexicographers to observe an exponential rise in usage of a single word in a very short period of time, and for that word to come overwhelmingly to dominate global discourse, even to the exclusion of most other topics”. 《牛津英语词典》执行编辑伯纳黛特·帕顿说：“在很短的时间内观察到一个词汇的使用量呈指数级上升，并压倒性地主导全球语言趋势，甚至让大多数其他话题毫无容身之地，这对词典编纂者来说非常罕见。” Covid-19 has done that, and has thus been added as a new entry in the OED, where it is described as “an acute respiratory illness in humans caused by a coronavirus, which is capable of producing severe symptoms and death, esp. in the elderly and others with underlying health conditions”. | 
