"Unfriend" has been named the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary, chosen from a list of finalists with a tech-savvy bent.
日前，unfriend一词从众多技术词汇中脱颖而出，被《新牛津美语辞典》评为2009年度潮词。
Unfriend was defined as a verb that means to remove someone as a "friend" on a social networking side such as Facebook.
Unfriend被定义为一个动词，意为在Facebook等社交网站上与某人解除好友关系。
"It has both currency and potential longevity," said Christine Lindberg, senior lexicographer for Oxford's US dictionary program, in a statement.
牛津美语辞典项目的高级词典编纂人克里斯汀?琳德伯格在一份声明中说：“这个词既符合当下的潮流，也有一定的潜在寿命。”
"In the online social networking context, its meaning is understood, so its adoption as a modern verb form makes this an interesting choice for Word of the Year."
“在网络社交环境中，这个词的意思很容易理解，所以将其定义为现代动词形式，也是今年年度词汇评选中一个很有意思的选择。”
Other words deemed finalists for 2009 by the dictionary's publisher, Britain's Oxford University Press, came from other technological trends, the economy, and political and current affairs.
2009年度潮词的评选工作由《新牛津美语辞典》出版商英国牛津大学出版社开展，其他入围的词汇来自经济、政治、时事和其它科技领域。
