新词：你的邮箱里是否塞满“培根邮件”

屈联西

   2011年10月08日  中国日报网-英语点津

　　先有垃圾邮件，现有培根邮件。似乎两种都不怎么招人待见。今天，咱们就来说说这个“培根邮件”。
　　First there was spam. Now there is bacn (pronounced "bacon")， the latest buzzword to infiltrate the Internet。
　　刚开始是垃圾邮件，现在又来了个培根邮件。培根邮件(bacn)是目前互联网上无处不在的一个热门词汇。
　　According to the bloggers who invented the term, bacn is e-mail you want to read — just not now. It's Facebook notifications, bank statements, Google news alerts, or any of the other sundry e-mails that you asked for, yet quickly pile up unread—like a week's worth of newspapers。
　　发明该词的博主给出的定义是：培根邮件是你想看的邮件，只不过不是马上就看的那种。培根邮件可能是来自Facebook的新提醒、银行帐户的变动通知、谷歌发送的新闻提示，以及其它各类你自己订阅的邮件。这些未读邮件会迅速堆积起来，就像积了一周的报纸放在一起。
　　Bacn is so-named because it's better than spam, but not as good as a personal e-mail. And unlike spam, bacn is self-inflicted. You signed up for it, and you actually do want that information. But yet it still feels like it's wasting your time。
　　另取名为“bacn(培根)”，是因为这类邮件并没有垃圾邮件那么烦人，但也不像个人邮件那么讨人喜欢。而且，跟垃圾邮件不同的是，培根邮件是用户自发订阅的。你注册订阅了这些邮件，你也确实需要邮件中提供的信息。只是你仍然会觉得阅读这些邮件是在浪费时间。