剑桥词典网站日前发布音讯称，“upcycling”（晋级收回）被确认为2019年年度词汇。这个词指的是将无用及不需要的产品，转化为质量更好或具有环境价值百科的新材料或产品。
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Cambridge Dictionary has named 'upcycling', the activity of making new items out of old or used things, as its Word of the Year 2019.
剑桥词典近来将“upcycling”（晋级收回）评为2019年年度词汇。“晋级收回”指的是用旧的或运用过的东西制造新物品的活动。
Upcycling was chosen as the ‘Word of the Day’ which resonated most strongly with followers on the Dictionary’s Instagram account. The noun – defined as the activity of making new furniture, objects, etc. out of old or used things or waste material – received more likes than any other ‘Word of the Day’ when shared on 4 July 2019.
“晋级收回”一词被选为最能引起剑桥词典Instagram账户粉丝共识的“每日一词”。 这个名词被界说为用旧的或运用过的东西乃至废品制造新家具、物品等的活动。2019年7月4日，剑桥词典在Instagram账户上共享这个词汇时，它取得的点赞量超越其他一切的“每日一词”。
The number of times upcycling has been looked up on the Cambridge Dictionary website has risen by 181% since December of 2011, when it was first added to the online dictionary, and searches have doubled in the last year alone.
自2011年12月初次被收入剑桥词典网站以来，“晋级收回”一词的查找量增加了181%，仅上一年一年的查找量就增加了一倍。
"We think it's the positive idea behind upcycling that appeals more than the word itself," said Wendalyn Nichols, Publishing Manager of the Cambridge Dictionary. "Stopping the progression of climate change, let alone reversing it, can seem impossible at times. Upcycling is a concrete action a single human being can take to make a difference.
剑桥词典的出书司理温德林?尼科尔斯说：“咱们我们都以为，‘晋级收回’一词背面的积极意义比这个词自身更吸引人。阻挠气候变化的进程，更不用说改动它，有时似乎是不可能的。‘晋级收回’是每个人能够为此做出改动的详细举动。”
"Lookups of upcycling reflect the momentum around individual actions to combat climate change — the youth activism sparked by Greta Thunberg; the growing trends of vegan, flexitarian and plant-based diets; reading and following the handbook There is No Planet B; or fashion designers upcycling clothes to create their latest collections."
“对‘晋级收回’一词的查找反映了个人应对气候变化举动的趋势——由格蕾塔·通贝里建议的青年活动；纯素食、弹性素食和植物性饮食的增加趋势；阅览并遵从《没有第二个地球》手册，以及时装设计师们对衣服进行‘晋级收回’来打造最新服装系列。”
Other words on the shortlist for Word of the Year 2019 reflect the same concern with the effects of climate change, for instance:
其他入围的2019年度词汇也反映了关于气候变化影响相同的忧虑，比方：
carbon sinknoun
碳汇（名词）
An area of forest that is large enough to absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the earth's atmosphere and therefore to reduce the effect of global warming
森林面积大到足以吸收地球大气中很多的二氧化碳，然后削减全球变暖的影响
compostableadjective
可堆肥的（形容词）
Something that is compostable can be used as compost when it decays
可用来制造肥料的东西，腐朽后能够用作堆肥
The Cambridge Dictionary editors use data from the website, blogs, and social media to identify and prioritise new additions to the Dictionary. They identified upcycling as a word to include after noticing a spike in searches for the word in 2010.
剑桥词典的修改们运用来自网站、博客和社会化媒体的数据来辨认和优先考虑词典的新词条。他们在2010年注意到“晋级收回”的查找量激增，所以将之录入进来。
A recent addition is the noun plastic footprint, defined as a measurement of the amount of plastic that someone uses and then discards, considered in terms of the resulting damage caused to the environment. This word, first identified by traditional citation gathering, received 1,048 votes in the New Words blog poll, with 61% of readers opting for the phrase to be added to Cambridge Dictionary.
剑桥词典最近新增了“塑料脚印”这个词，用来衡量一个人运用和丢掉塑料的数量，及其对环境形成的损坏。这个词开端是由传统的引文搜集方法确认的，在新词博客投票中取得1048票，61%的读者挑选将这个用语收入剑桥词典。
citation：n.引用，引用
Cambridge University Press has been publishing dictionaries for learners of English since 1995. Cambridge Dictionary began offering these dictionaries completely free of charge online in 1999. Celebrating its 20th birthday this year, Cambridge Dictionary is the top learner dictionary website on the planet, currently serving 394 million unique visitors a year.
剑桥大学出书社从1995年开端为英语学习者出书字典。剑桥词典从1999年开端供给完全免费的在线词典。本年是剑桥词典诞生20周年，剑桥词典网站是全球最大的学习词典网站，现在每年有3.94亿独立访客。
