The site's soaring popularity has won its inclusion in the 2008 edition of the Collins English Dictionary, according to a Collins spokeswoman.
柯林斯詞典的一位女發(fā)言人說，該網(wǎng)站的盛名為它在2008年版的柯林斯英語詞典中贏得了一席之地。

Editors have defined the term as both a trademarked noun referring to "a popular social networking website", and as a verb, meaning "to search for (a person's profile) on the Facebook website".
編輯們給這個詞定義了兩種詞義。一是作為名詞的商標(biāo)名字，意思是“一個流行的社交網(wǎng)站”；另一個是作為動詞，意為“在Facebook網(wǎng)站搜索（個人資料）”。

The dictionary gives as an example of the word's usage: "I thought one of the interviewees was perfect for the job, until I Facebooked him."
關(guān)于這個詞的用法，詞典給了一個例句：“我本以為其中的一個面試者很適合這個工作，但是在Facebook查詢他的資料之后改變了主意。”

The spokeswoman said: "'Facebook' has been the phenomenon of 2007."Though social networking has been around for several years, this year has seen it break into the mainstream, with 200,000 signing up every day."
這位女發(fā)言人說：“‘Facebook’已經(jīng)成為了2007年的一個現(xiàn)象。”雖然交友網(wǎng)站出現(xiàn)了許多年，但是在今年打入了互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的主流，每天的注冊用戶多達(dá)二十萬。