If so, the Oxford Dictionary of English would like to recognize your achievements.
如果这样,英语牛津字典就要对你的成就表示认可。
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”。
It is one of the new generation Oxford dictionaries derived from the database of the highly acclaimed new Oxford Dictionary of English.
这是一个新的一代牛津电脑辞典来自数据库的高度赞誉新牛津字典的英文。
According to the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium in the Byzantine civilization people figured that there were 12 hours in the day and 12 in the night.
根据《牛津拜占庭词典》的说法,在拜占庭文化中,人们认为白天有12个hour,夜晚有12个hour。
The concise Oxford dictionary of idioms received a lot of, because, for users to grasp the correct meaning of idioms and the correct usage is very necessary.
《简明牛津词典》所收习语很多,因为对使用者来说,掌握习语的正确意义和正确用法是非常必要地。
Strangely, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology seems to agree with Brewer’s and not with the OED—it’s fellow Oxford University Press publication, in blaming galoshes on the Gauls.
很奇怪,《简明牛津英语词典》中关于galoshes的词源解释似乎和布鲁尔氏大词典一致,却有悖于《牛津英语词典》(牛津大学出版社版本),不同意galoshes源自Gauls的提法。
The idea for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary.
这本词典的想法来自1857年在英国的一次重要会议。22年后,牛津大学邀请詹姆斯·穆雷担任其新词典的编辑。
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.
读了更多牛津英语语料库里的内容后,我便萌生了写一写这个单词的想法。据称,该语料库是词典编纂者的好帮手,其数据库包含十亿词汇量。
The Oxford English Dictionary cites it around the year 900 in the Laws of King Alfred.
《牛津英语词典》对这个词的引用出自公元900年的《阿尔弗雷德大帝律法》。
The definitive dictionary of the English language, the Oxford English dictionary, may well never see the light of day again, only the light of a monitor.
英语权威字典牛津英语辞典可能再无出头之日,只能呆在显示屏幕中了。
The 3rd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary may never appear in print, and will probably only exist online when it is completed by 2037, announced by the Oxford University Press Sunday.
牛津大学出版社29日称,预计2037年编纂完成的《牛津英语词典》第三版或将不再推出印刷版,而只以电子版面世。
Furnivall went on to be the second editor of what became the Oxford English Dictionary.
Furnivall继续担任了《牛津英语词典》前身的第二任编辑。
The Concise Oxford Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2001) has no less than seven definitions of the noun "model."
简明牛津词典(牛津大学出版社,2001)关于名词“model”至少有7 种以上的定义。
“It means adding the numbers together then dividing it by the number of figures,” Trevor grinned. “Oxford dictionary, 2006 edition.”
“根据2006版牛津字典,它就是说把所有的数字加到一起,然后除以数字的个数。” 特雷咧着嘴,笑着打趣道。
"It means adding the Numbers together then dividing it by the number of figures." Trevor grinned. "Oxford dictionary, 2006 edition."
“也就是说把这些数字加起来,再除以数字的个数。”特雷福咧着嘴笑了起来,“2006版牛津字典是这么说的。”
And, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary, "Unfriend" beat out a tech-heavy field to take the honor of the word of the year.
此外,根据新牛津美国词典,它是单词的一年。 「Unfriend」击败了以科技为主的字词,荣登年度风云字汇榜首。
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。
The longest entry in the new Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, a work that has been 44 years in the making, is for the word "immediately".
新出版的《牛津英语历史同义词词典》的编纂工作历时44年时间,其中最长的词条是英语单词“ immediately ”。
The very first citation in the Oxford English Dictionary for penthouse meaning a dwelling at the top of an apartment was hardly the rich and fancy kind. I quote
在《牛津英语词典》中第一条penthouse的引证——其意指“一个位于一套公寓顶部的住所”——完全没有一丝富贵和高档的味道。
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.
牛津英语大词典(OED)宣布收入若干条网络缩略语,同时为这些来源于网络的词汇加上了有趣的解释。
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”的英文单词,也在两年后被收入了牛津英语词典,而且这款玩具更是成为纽约现代艺术博物馆的永久展品。
The definition of Euthanasia as given by the Oxford English Dictionary is: "the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable disease or in an irreversible coma".
关于安乐死的定义牛津英语词典给出的解释是:“无痛杀死一个患有不治之症或深度昏迷状态的病人。
"Unfriend" has been named the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary, chosen from a list of finalists with a tech-savvy bent.
日前,unfriend一词从众多技术词汇中脱颖而出,被《新牛津美语辞典》评为2009年度潮词。
Shakespeare didn't come up with most of the famous phrases in his plays but was credited with them because of a fault with the Oxford English dictionary, a leading scholar claims.
一位著名的学者称,莎士比亚在他的作品中并没有发明那些著名的短语,但是由于牛津词典的错误,很多人相信这些短语是莎士比亚发明的。
Shakespeare didn't come up with most of the famous phrases in his plays but was credited with them because of a fault with the Oxford English dictionary, a leading scholar claims.
一位著名的学者称,莎士比亚在他的作品中并没有发明那些著名的短语,但是由于牛津词典的错误,很多人相信这些短语是莎士比亚发明的。
应用推荐