【词汇大师】俚语(1/2)

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来看看2007年的关键词，从“增兵”到“左的繁荣”到“电子邮件破产”
TIPS
本篇只听写嘉宾的话，主持人的话不需要听写。都是好建议哦。听了就知道。
主持人的话①"Let's start with the serious stuff first. The war in Iraq has been foremost in many people's minds and I understand there have been some new words have come out of that. For instance, the word 'surge."
主持人的话② "What's boom? I understand boom is a word."
HINTS
IED -- an improvised explosive device

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I am a lexicographer. That means I am somebody that compiles and edits dictionaries for a living. I specialize in new words and slang. It's the kind of stuff that most people don't know about yet but I'm there early. I hunt it down, I figure out what it means and then I put it into print."
  
"That's right. Surge was a term that came about, I think it was at the end of 2005. And what it meant was that the American government was going to send more troops to Iraq in order to better fight the war there.
"And the troops themselves however it call it the splurge. It's kind of their way of poking fun at it. By splurge, they mean they are throwing a lot of money and a lot of resources and a lot of technology at a problem.
"Well, boom specifically, of course, is an instance of an explosion. So let's say an IED -- an improvised explosive device -- is a boom. But the way the government looks at it and the Defense department looks at that  you're left of boom.