Wiki登大雅之堂 進入牛津英語大詞典“Wiki“ wins place in dictionary
If you think "wiki" doesn't sound like English, you are right. But it's English now. This word born on the Pacific Island of Hawaii finally got an entry into the latest edition of the online Oxford English Dictionary along with 287 other new words.
如果你覺得wiki（維基）的發音聽起來不太像英語，那就對了。但它現在已成爲英語中的一員。這個誕生於太平洋夏威夷羣島的詞終於和其它287個新詞一起被收入最新版在線牛津英語大詞典。
It has earned it.
這可是它自己贏得的“地位”。
"Words are included in the dictionary on the basis of the documentary evidence that we have collected about them. A while ago this evidence suggested that wiki was starting to make a name for itself," OED chief editor John Simpson said in a statement.
《牛津英語大詞典》主編約翰·辛普森在一份聲明中說：“我們一般都是根據收集到的資料證據來收錄新詞。不久前，有資料顯示，wiki已經開始有了知名度。”
"We tracked it for several years, researched its origins and finally decided it was time to include it in the dictionary."
“我們花了幾年的時間來追蹤這個詞、考察它的起源，最終決定現在將它收入字典。”
But "Wiki Wiki", meaning "quick" in Hawaiian, has a very different meaning in its new host language: a type of Web page designed so that its contents can be edited by anyone who accesses it.
但在夏威夷語中意爲“快”的"Wiki Wiki"在英語中可是另有所指，指的是讀者可以自行編輯的網頁。
That the word acquired a new meaning is attributed to the fact that commenting and editing on Internet Web sites became faster, the OED's principal editor of new words, Graeme Diamond said.
據《牛津英語大詞典》新詞主編格萊姆·戴蒙得介紹，wiki的這個新含義主要是源於在互聯網上進行評論和編輯的速度越來越快這一事實。
"There was no delay in submitting a comment," Diamond said.
他說：“人們可以在網頁上快速發表評論。”
The most famous example is the popular Internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia. Diamond said new Internet-age concept of "wiki" fits well with the 120-year-old dictionary.
Wiki最著名的例子當屬如今十分流行的互聯網百科全書Wikipedia（維基百科）。戴蒙得說，wiki是互聯網時代的一個全新概念，它完全有資格進入這本有120年曆史的英語字典。
