新托福阅读材料：NewWordsEnterTheLexicon

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　世界杯上，来自世界各地的顶级足球运动员们带来了一场场精彩绝伦的比赛，而与此同时，许多新名词也诞生在世界杯赛场上，今天我们就来一起关注一下这些新名词的诞生吧。  
　　In 2002, the word "metatarsal" suddenly entered the mainstream, such was the focus on David Beckham's broken foot. Four years later, the wives and girlfriends' ostentatious stint in Baden-Baden, Germany, brought the nickname Wag into common parlance.
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! w7 S5 }3 I1 [　　Adrian Beard, author of the Language of Sport, says certain words tend to catch on because of cultural repetition and "playfulness" with language.

& z- o3 I: J# {- {& w0 j! |　　"The interesting thing about metatarsal is we had a specialist medical term being applied to a highly non-medical group of people. It got to the stage where Rooney and Beckham were almost defined by the term," he says.
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　　It's hard to predict which words will spring from the South African tournament as language reacts to, rather than sets, the agenda.

# k; E" W+ `$ G' W　　"It will probably emerge - in terms of England coverage - from key figures in the team, who they are playing and where they are playing. But sometimes we get quite a creative blend of words. Because the World Cup is in South Africa, words from Afrikaans might come into play too."

　　But there is a huge repertoire for play, and not just with language.

, V7 b' m5 x  f! C. l! _　　"After all, who could predict the Mexican wave in 1986 or Johan Cruyff's famous turn in 1974?"