用一个单词总结2018，你首先会想到哪个？韦氏词典编辑出版商美国韦氏出版公司17日在社交媒体上宣布，justice被评为该词典2018年度词汇。
Racial justice. Obstruction of justice. Social justice. The Justice Department. Merriam-Webster has chosen "justice" as its 2018 word of the year, driven by the churning news cycle over months and months.
韦氏词典近日公布其2018年度词汇为justice（司法、正义）。这是由于连月来有关种族正义、妨碍司法、社会正义、美国司法部的新闻不断涌现。
The word follows "toxic," picked by Oxford Dictionaries, and "misinformation," plucked by Dictonary.com.
在此之前，牛津辞典选择的2018年度词汇是“toxic”（有毒的），Dictionary.com网站选择的是“misinformation”（虚假信息）。
另外，柯林斯词典选择的是“single-use”（一次性的）。
Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster's editor at large, told The Associated Press ahead of Monday's announcement that "justice" consistently bubbled into the top 20 or 30 lookups on the company's website, spiking at times due to specific events but also skating close to the surface for much of the year.
在17日公布年度词汇之前，韦氏词典特约编辑彼得·索科洛夫斯基告诉美联社说，在即将过去的一年里，这个英文词汇持续成为韦氏词典网站上搜索量最高的20至30个单词之一，有时会因为特殊事件而排名提升，而在大部分时间里也位于前列。
While it's one of those common words people likely know how to spell and use correctly in a sentence, Sokolowski pointed to other reasons that drive search traffic. Among them is an attempt to focus a train of thought around a philosophical problem, or to seek aspirational motivation. Such well-known words are often among the most looked up every year, including those that are slightly abstract, including "love," he said.
虽然人们都知道justice这类常见词的拼写和用法，但索科洛夫斯基指出导致这个常见词搜索量上升还有一些其他原因。其中包括民众集中地对一个哲学问题进行思考，或是寻找动力来源。他说，一些为人熟知的词汇常常会位于每年的查询榜前列，包括有些抽象的词汇，例如“love”（爱）。
在2018年间，美国联邦最高法院大法官卡瓦诺提名战、司法部特别检察官米勒主持“通俄”调查、总统特朗普遭遇“妨碍司法”质疑以及回避“通俄”调查的司法部长塞申斯去职等事件，广受美国民众关注。
The designation for "justice" came soon after President Trump's one-time fixer, Michael Cohen, was sentenced to three years in prison for crimes that included arranging the payment of hush money to conceal his boss' alleged sexual affairs.
在韦氏词典年度词汇公布前不久，特朗普前私人律师迈克尔-科恩被判刑三年，被控的罪名包括向据称与特朗普有染的女性支付封口费。
