【词汇大师】新词诞生记(1/2)

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英语与法语相比具有非常明显的开放性，每天都会有新的词汇诞生。最常见的就是词性间的相互转化。比如“Pluto”一词，是名词：冥王星，但是转化成动词是什么意思呢？请听录音。
TIPS
本篇听写只听写嘉宾的话，主持人的话不需要听写。听仔细些。
主持人的话①"Now how did Pluto become a verb? Tell us the story here."
主持人的话②"Now it went against the phrase 'climate canary.' Tell us about that one."
HINTS
International Astronomical Union
Pluto"The word of the year was 'pluto,' the verb, as in 'I've been plutoed.' There's quite a bit of surprise in people's eyes when you tell them that Pluto is now a verb."
"Well, last year, the International Astronomical Union decided that Pluto did not have the qualifications it needed to be a planet like the other planets, and demoted it to something else. And so some clever person somewhere looked upon this situation and said, 'Well, Pluto's been plutoed, and if I'm demoted or rejected or scorned, then I'm plutoed, too.'"
"Well, a climate canary is an organism or a species whose poor health or declining numbers hint at a larger environmental catastrophe on the horizon. The species cited was the polar bear. The polar bears hunt seals by walking around on Arctic floating ice,  in the Arctic Ocean, and as this ice breaks up, the polar bears find it very difficult to get out on the ocean in order to get the seals they need to eat."