Trevor grinned. "That's what the Oxford dictionary, 2006 edition says."

特雷福咧嘴一笑。“这就是2006版牛津词典所说的。”

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'the Oxford Dictionary' is the best authority on English words.

《牛津英语大辞典》是英语词汇的最高权威。

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The Oxford Dictionary of English gives definition of crass as “showing no intelligence or sensitivity.”

《牛津英语字典》给出了单词crass的定义，即“显得没有智慧或毫不体贴”。

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The Oxford Dictionary of Superstitions says the poem dates back to the nineteenth century.

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Well,no one really knows. The Oxford English Dictionary lists about six hundred fifteen thousand words.

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Robert L. Mack, Gray's definitive biographer, has observed that a recent edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations draws from 15 stanzas and reproduces 13 of them whole.

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But these are of a different order from plagiarism, which the Oxford Dictionary defines as "taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own".

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Yet the Oxford dictionary lists only half as many.

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