牛津词典公布2021年度词汇：Vax

去年选不出年度词汇的牛津词典，近日早早公布了2021年度词汇：Vax.

Vax /vks/ 可以作动词，也可以作名词，表示“（打）疫苗”。The Oxford Languages Dictionary defines vax as a vaccine or vaccination when used as a noun. As a verb, vax is defined as “vaccinate” or “treat (someone) with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease”.

无注释原文：
‘Vax’ chosen as word of the year by Oxford English Dictionary firm
The Guardian
In a year when talk over the virtual garden fence has focused on whether you have been jabbed, jagged or had both doses yet, and whether it was Pfizer, AstraZeneca or Moderna you were injected with, Oxford Languages has chosen vax as its word of the year.
After deciding last year that it was impossible to sum up 2020 in one word, the company that produces the Oxford English Dictionary said the shorthand for vaccine had “injected itself into the bloodstream of the English language” this year during the Covid pandemic.