
牛津英語詞典
Henry Bradley , one of the four editors of the Oxford English Dictionary, said .
牛津英語詞典的四位編纂者之一亨利·布萊德雷說:。
I’ve talked before about JRR Tolkien and his association with The Oxford English Dictionary.
我在前面已經談論過關于托爾金和他與牛津英語詞典的聯繫。
The name entered the Oxford English Dictionary after just two years and the toy is a permanent exhibit in New York's Museum of Modern Art.
“魔方”的英文單詞,也在兩年後被收入了牛津英語詞典,而且這款玩具更是成為紐約現代藝術博物館的永久展品。
Well, here's one that beats Disney. Sam found it in the Oxford English Dictionary. Their longest non-technical word is.
這裡有一個詞可以打敗迪斯尼的那個。薩姆在牛津英語詞典中找到了它,最長的非專業名詞的單詞是。
And even quotations from Professor Ian Gordon, The World of English words columnist, can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary by means of this computer search .
即使是從《英語世界》的詞彙專欄作家伊安- 戈登教授作品中引來的用語也能用計算機檢索的方法在大牛津詞典中找到。
The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first citation in the year when William Shakespeare was three years old, that’s 1567.
《牛 津英語詞 典 》将它的第一條引語追溯到了1567年,也就是威廉·莎士比亞年僅三歲的時候。
I have recently written to the Oxford English Dictionary asking them to correct their draft definition.
我已經寫信給了牛津英文字典,要求他們更正草案中有關地球工程的定義。
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) announced the addition of several acronyms to its dictionary, adding some interesting trivia behind the origins of these Internet-associated expressions.
牛津英語大詞典(OED)宣布收入若幹條網絡縮略語,同時為這些來源于網絡的詞彙加上了有趣的解釋。
The Oxford English Dictionary refers to two guys— Pliny and Nicander—in its etymology for the word magnet.
磁鐵這個詞,牛津英語詞典上标明說pliny和nicander這兩個詞是它的詞源。
I called up an expert on language for some insight into this issue: Jesse Sheidlower, lexicographer and editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary.
我給一個語言學的專家打電話并問他對于此事的理解:JesseSheidlower牛津英語詞典的編撰和編輯.
He passed away in 1888 and The Oxford English Dictionary traces the first time such poetry being called a limerick to 1896.
他于1888年去世,而《牛津英語詞典》稱這種詩歌第一次被稱為“limerick”是在1896年。
The reason I chose the word queen was that I see from the Oxford English Dictionary’s online newsletter that this word was recently updated in their December 2007 quarterly release.
我選擇了單詞queen是因為我在《牛津英語詞典》(文中簡稱《詞典》)的線上新聞通訊裡了解到,最近,這個單詞在他們2007年12月第四季度的發布中有了更新。
The 1935 citation in the Oxford English Dictionary that liberates assessment for uses beyond taxation is credited to Webster.
1935年牛津英語詞典關于assessment的引用歸功于韋伯斯特,他把assessment從表示稅收的用法中解放了出來。
The Oxford English Dictionary entry for ketchup hasn't yet been updated for the third edition and has as its most recent citation an item dated 1874.
牛津英語詞典中ketchup的詞條還沒有更新至第三版,其中最近的一條引述可追溯到1874年。
According to the Oxford English Dictionary trainspotting is the hobby of hanging around beside railway lines and taking careful note of the details of the trains that go by.
根據《牛津英語詞典》(OED)的說法,猜火車(trainspotting)是指一種在鐵軌邊晃蕩、仔細記下來往列車細節的愛好。
According to the Oxford English Dictionary a glossary is a collection of glosses, so Urbandictionary got that backwards.
根據牛津英語詞典的解釋,glossary(術語表)意為gloss(術語,集注等)的集合。由此,看來urbandictionary在這有所退步了。
The Oxford English Dictionary shows that the word has been around since 1377. At first it seemed to be a wooden shoe, perhaps one that had a wooden sole but leather uppers.
根據《牛津英語詞典》顯示,galoshes一詞大概最早出現在1377年,起初,galoshes指一種木鞋,可能就是那種木頭鞋底、皮革鞋面的鞋子,因此《牛津英語詞典》将galoshes分解為表示木頭和鞋子的兩個希臘詞根。
The Oxford English Dictionary will never appear in print again, its owners have announced. It was first published 126 years ago and is respected the world over.
《牛津英語(論壇)大詞典》在126年前首次出版,如今在全世界範圍内受到尊敬。
As of June 2010 the term has a draft entry in the Oxford English Dictionary—the modification of the global environment or the climate in order to counter or ameliorate climate change.
直至2010年7月,這個術語已經在牛津英文字典中有了一項草案——為了抵抗或改善氣候變化而對地球環境或氣候進行的調整。
Oxford English Dictionary May Never Be Published Again
牛津英語辭典可能不會再版
The longest entry in the new Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, a work that has been 44 years in the ******, is for the word immediately.
新出版的《牛津英語曆史同義詞詞典》的編纂工作曆時44年時間,其中最長的詞條是英語單詞immediately。
Just as the Oxford English Dictionary became the definitive word on words through the efforts of volunteers, the Open Directory follows in its footsteps to become the definitive catalog of the Web.
就像牛津英文字典通過志願者的努力成為權威的工具一樣,OpenDirectory跟隨着它的腳步也成為了權威的互聯網分類目錄。
I got the idea for this word of the day from reading more about the Oxford English Corpus, that dictionary maker's tool said to have a billion words in its database.
讀了更多牛津英語語料庫裡的内容後,我便萌生了寫一寫這個單詞的想法。據稱,該語料庫是詞典編纂者的好幫手,其數據庫包含十億詞彙量。
To get the deeper truth we need to burrow deeper into the hobbit hole and The Oxford English Dictionary is the place to do that.
為了獲得進一步的事實,我們需要更加深入地挖進霍比特人的洞穴,而《牛津英語詞典》正是一個挖掘之處。
《牛津英語詞典》(Oxford English Dictionary,簡稱OED)是英語世界最具權威性的曆史性語文詞典之一,由牛津大學出版社出版。以下是其核心信息的綜合解析:
OED是英語詞彙的“最高權威”,旨在全面記錄英語詞彙的曆史演變、不同用法及地區變體。它不僅定義詞彙,還通過引文展示詞語在不同時期的實際應用,被譽為“辭典中的聖經”。
OED不僅是語言工具,更是研究英語史的重要文獻。其編纂方法(按曆史原則排列詞義)對後世詞典影響深遠,成為學術研究的标杆。
《牛津英語詞典》是一本權威的英語詞典,收錄了大量的英語單詞、短語和習語。下面是對該詞典的詳細解釋:
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