尽管牛津英文词典享誉全球，但是这本书并未给出版社赢利，并且每年还要花几百万镑来做调查研究。
But despite its global reputation, the OED has never made a profit and continues to cost several million pounds a year in research.
给他带来这些想法的，是O.E.D. （一般这样称《牛津英文词典》）网络版本的成功，以及那20卷印刷版有限的销售额。
What prompted those thoughts was the success of the online version of the O.E.D., as it is usually called, and the limited sales of the printed 20-volume edition.
《牛津英文词典》主编约翰·辛普森在声明中表示，“这至少打破了《牛津英语词典》的一个老规矩，就是一个新词从出现到考虑是否要被收入词典，需要十年时间。”
"This breaks at least one OED rule, namely that a new word needs to be current for ten years before consideration for inclusion," said the OED's chief editor John Simpson in a statement.
这个单词本是卡通人物荷马-辛普森拍脑门表达悔恨之情的口头禅，如今已经成为词典最新补充收录的250个新单词之一。 要知道《牛津英文词典》可是英语世界最具权威的词典。
The cartoon character Homer Simpson's forehead-smacking lament is one of some 250 entries being added today to the dictionary, which is widely considered the leading authority on the English language.
目前，《牛津英语词典》收录了一千多个源于中文的词条，并且，自20世纪90年代中期以来，似乎有越来越多的中文词出现在英文中。
Over 1, 000 words of Chinese origin can now be found in the Oxford English Dictionary and, since the mid-1990s, the adoption of Chinese words and phrases into English seems to have been on the rise.
目前，《牛津英语词典》收录了一千多个源于中文的词条，并且，自20世纪90年代中期以来，似乎有越来越多的中文词出现在英文中。
Over 1, 000 words of Chinese origin can now be found in the Oxford English Dictionary and, since the mid-1990s, the adoption of Chinese words and phrases into English seems to have been on the rise.
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