Peter Sokolowski is Merriam-Webster's editor at large.

彼得·索科洛夫斯基是《韦氏词典》的总编辑。

Sokolowski said the new word fauxhawk has the highest possible points for a new word.

索科洛夫斯基说，其中新词fauxhawk可能得分最高。

Sokolowski would not say what all the 500 new words were.

索科洛夫斯基不愿透露这500个新词都是什么。

" I like eggcorn, " Sokolowski said, " because it's a word about words."

“我喜欢eggcorn(耳误词，口误词)，”索科洛夫斯基说，“因为它是一个关于词语的词。”

Sokolowski told the Associated Press, " We also turned verb into a verb so you can play verbed and verbing."

“我们还把verb(动词)变成了动词，这样你就可以使用verbed和verbing。”

Sokolowski noted that pandemic has roots in Latin and Greek.

Sokolowski 指出， 流行病起源于拉丁语和希腊语。

Peter Sokolowski is editor-at-large at Merriam-Webster.

Peter Sokolowski 是韦氏词典的特约编辑。

Sokolowski told The Associated Press that major news events often have a technical word related to them.

索科洛夫斯基告诉美联社， 重大新闻事件通常都有与之相关的技术词。

Sokolowski said the huge increase in interest did not appear to be only among searchers who did not know the meaning of the word.

索科洛夫斯基表示，该词搜索量大幅增长也不仅是因为有不知道该词意思的人搜索。