九十年代期间,美国社会出现大量与法律有关的新词汇。虽然其中大部分尚未纳入法律词典中,还不能算是法律专门术语,但通过媒体的广泛传播及律师间的习用,此类新词汇已成为美国法律界的非正式法律语言。本文从最近十余年美国新出现的法律相关用语中选择四十条目,试于翻译,并说明每一词的生成背景。 During the 1990s, a large number of new vocabulary related to the law appeared in American society. Although most of them have not yet been incorporated into the legal dictionary, they cannot be regarded as legal terminology. However, through the widespread dissemination of media and the use of lawyers, such new vocabularies have become the unofficial legal language of the United States legal community. This article selects forty items from the recent legally relevant terms in the United States for more than a decade, tries to translate, and explains the context in which each word is generated.