热词解析(7) — earworm

不知道有没有在大街上、或者在宿舍里，听到过这样一首歌，或者一首曲子，尽管觉得非常难听又烂俗，但是莫名其妙就在脑子里挥之不去,甚至不知不觉还能哼起来~
没错！今天就教你用英文说：洗脑神曲！它就是EARWORM

神曲

Where does earworm come from?

earworm最初是指玉米里的小虫，后来才衍伸出“洗脑神曲”这个意思，而且感觉“洗脑神曲”这个意思反而更贴切有没有？ear（耳朵）+worm（小虫），神曲们不就像只小虫始终在耳朵里搞来搞去嘛！

看两个例句：

1. Three musical factors have been found to set earworms apart from the average song。
2. It's estimated that 90% of us experience an earworm at least once a week.

Top 5 Earworms and Comments

我找到2018年国外最洗脑的几首歌，不知道你听过几首？来看看歪国仁是怎么评价的吧

1. What About Us - P!NK

I could go on all day and all night about how much it annoys me when this song gets in my head and stays there for several hours, and how I can't seem to avoid it, even 8 months after its initial release.
当这首歌进入我的脑海并在那里转上几个小时，我可以整天整夜地谈论它有多么让我恼火，即使是在它发行8个月后，我似乎还是无法避免被它一遍遍洗脑。

2. Strip that Down - Liam Payne

I still sometimes sing "girl I love it when your body grinds on me" at random. Oh boy, I'd be in trouble if my mom caught me singing that.
我还是会时不时地唱“女孩，我喜欢你的身体在我身上磨蹭”。天啊，如果我老妈发现我唱那首歌，我就死定了。

3. No Excuses - Meghan Trainor

If any song is the most annoying earworm of 2018 so far, it's this. Especially the verses. That part makes me think, Oh my God! What has music come to! Not to mention it gets stuck in my head too. Please don't let this be the next ear worm song that I can't avoid.
如果说有哪首歌是2018年迄今为止最恼人的“神曲”，那就是这首没跑了。尤其是诗。这部分让我想，天哪!音乐变成了什么!更不用说它已经在我的脑海里挥之不去了，希望我不要让这首神曲又给祸害了。

4. Bad Liar - Selena Gomez

The chorus in this song is, "I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' not to think about you", which is pretty appropriate because you literally cannot get it out of your head after you've heard it.
这首歌的副歌是，“我在努力，我在努力，我在努力不去想你”，这是非常合适的(注：？？？)，因为在你听过之后，你真的无法从你的脑海中摆脱它。

5. Love So Soft - Kelly Clarkson

One day last fall, I played this song in my head to get the J. G. Wentworth commercial out of my head, only to realize that I was stuck with another earworm and 15 songs couldn't get rid of it ><.
去年秋天的一天，我听了这首歌，想把J. G. Wentworth的广告神曲从脑子里赶出来，却发现自己又被另一首“神曲”缠住了，15首歌都无法摆脱它 ><。

参考来源：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm