【词汇大师】记住（1/2）
记住那年发生的关键词吗？
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本篇中，主持人的话不用听写，只听写嘉宾的话。
主持人的话：① "So, for example."
http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201206/201206210640084075992.mp3"The Word of the Year was bailout -- b-a-i-l-o-u-t. Bailout. And I should say that it doesn't have to be a new word. It has to be newly prominent. And certainly the usage of this term has spiked since the federal government has been called in to rescue banks and automobile manufacturers and a variety of companies with a bailout. Because that's what a bailout is, it's a form of rescue.
"It beat in a runoff -- that is, we have one round of voting with all the candidates -- bailout beat 'Barack Obama.' Now that's a name, but we were judging it as what we call a combining form. That is, Barack and Obama as separate words have been used to coin oodles and gobs and just loads of other words. It's a very productive combining form, as we would say in linguistics."
"Oh, like Obamamania, just to describe the way that some people are crazy about the man.
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