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When Dua Lipa headlined at Glastonbury, you might think it was down to talent and good fortune in her career.
当杜阿·利帕在格拉斯顿伯里音乐节上登上头条时，你可能会认为原因是她职业生涯中展现出的天赋和好运。
But according to the singer, it's actually because she "manifested" it.
但这位歌手透露，这实际上是因为她“将目标显化”了。
Dua isn't the only celebrity jumping on this spiritual trend.
杜阿并不是唯一一个追随这一精神潮流的名人。
"I am a powerful manifestor."
“我是一个强大的显化者。”
"I believe that anybody can channel that feeling and manifest for themselves."
“我相信任何人都可以引导这种感觉，并为自己表现出来。”
"I knew when I was going on to the pitch that I was going to score, you know, I've... I manifested it."
“我知道当我踏上球场的时候我会取得进球，我将目标显化了。”
Manifest is the Word of 2024 as revealed by Cambridge Dictionary, search for more than 13,000 times on their website this year.
Manifest是剑桥词典公布的2024年度词汇，这个词今年在其网站上的搜索次数超过1.3万次。
"The meaning of manifest has changed over time.
“manifest的含义随着时间的推移而有所改变。
Once used by the likes of Chaucer and Shakespeare here to mean clearly or obviously, in later centuries, it came to mean a list of goods on a ship.
这个词曾经被乔叟和莎士比亚等人用来表示“清楚的”或“明显的”，在后来的几个世纪里，它的意思变成了船上货物的清单。
By the 21st century, it referred to the appearance of ghosts. And in the modern sense of the word, it essentially means 'fake it till you make it'."
到了21世纪，它指的是鬼魂的出现。在这个词的现代意义上，它本质上意味着‘假装直到你真正做到’。”
So despite the word's popularity, science says manifesting is nonsense.
尽管这个词很流行，但科学表明，显化是无稽之谈。
Last year's Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year was "hallucinate", maybe we're all trying to avoid reality rather than living in the present.
去年剑桥词典的年度词汇是“hallucinate”（出现幻觉），也许我们都在试图逃避现实，而不是活在当下。
