1879年,他成为了《牛津英语词典》的编辑。
他花在《牛津英语词典》上的时间比预期的要长得多。
世界上最大的词典是《牛津英语词典》,简称 OED。
The largest dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED for short.
《牛津英语词典》将LOL定义为一个叹词,“主要用于电子通信……以引起对笑话和幽默语句的注意,或表示可笑”。
The OED defines LOL as an interjection "used chiefly in electronic communications… to draw attention to a joke or humorous statement, or to express amusement".
《牛津英语词典》的解释最恰当:“一个木制的头,戴帽子或假发的木头,因此,这种脑袋中放不下才智,含义为愚蠢的人。”
The OED puts it best: “A wooden head, a wooden block for hats or wigs; hence, a head with no more intelligence in it than one of these, a blockish head.”
《牛津英语词典》也持相同的观点。
牛津英语词典有其初始希腊翻译,为“挚爱的东西”。
The Oxford English Dictionary has the original Greek translated as "a thing devoted."
我在前面已经谈论过关于托尔金和他与牛津英语词典的联系。
I've talked before about JRR Tolkien and his association with The Oxford English Dictionary.
牛津英语词典声称“ blizzard ”是一个相当新的词。
The Oxford English Dictionary claims that blizzard is a fairly new word.
《牛津英语词典》给出了69种关于stock的定义。
我在《牛津英语词典》(OED)中看到十个含有pale的短语。
I find in the Oxford English Dictionary that there are ten words pale spelled pale.
这个词在《牛津英语词典》中的第一条引证就是一个定义。
Furnivall继续担任了《牛津英语词典》前身的第二任编辑。
Furnivall went on to be the second editor of what became the Oxford English Dictionary.
这就是他的工作,在现在的牛津英语词典该条目中仍然可以看到。
It is his work that is still reflected in the current OED entry.
《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 Oxford English Dictionary cites it around the year 900 in the Laws of King Alfred.
但是Jockey第一次出现在《牛津英语词典》中时,它带着仇恨。
But the first English citation that appears in the Oxford English Dictionary for Jockey is used in hate.
在牛津英语词典(OED)里,这个词的一条引用是出自一个叫里德尔的家伙。
One of the citations in the OED entry for ellipse is from a fellownamed Liddell.
果真,《牛津英语词典》将mess一词的来源追溯至盎格鲁-诺曼语和之前的古法语。
Sure enough the Oxford English Dictionary traces mess back to Anglo-Norman and Old French before that.
甚至是《牛津英语词典》提供的也多是19世纪到20世纪那些比较老的例句。
And even the OED provides mostly historical examples from the 1800s and 1900s.
磁铁这个词,牛津英语词典上标明说pliny和nicander这两个词是它的词源。
The Oxford English Dictionary refers to two guys - Pliny and nicander-in its etymology for the word magnet.
磁铁这个词,牛津英语词典上标明说pliny和nicander这两个词是它的词源。
The Oxford English Dictionary refers to two guys-pliny and nicander-in its etymology for the word magnet.
《牛津英语词典》非常明确地回答了前一问题。 :Incent“明显是一个逆成词”。
The Oxford English Dictionary answers the first clearly enough: incent is "apparently a back formation".
根据《牛津英语词典》的信息,这是单词 paparazzi首次在英语中的亮相。
This according to the OED was the first occurrence of paparazzi in English.
《牛津英语词典》将它的第一条引语追溯到了1567年,也就是威廉·莎士比亚年仅三岁的时候。
The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first citation in the year when William Shakespeare was three years old, that's 1567.
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。
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".
《牛津英语词典》(OED)告诉我说,这个单词来自古希腊语,Nemesis是指复仇女神。
The OED tells me that this word comes from ancient Greek where Nemesis was a goddess.
他于1888年去世,而《牛津英语词典》称这种诗歌第一次被称为“limerick”是在1896年。
He passed away in 1888 and the Oxford English Dictionary traces the first time such poetry being called a limerick to 1896.
这里有一个词可以打败迪斯尼的那个。萨姆在牛津英语词典中找到了它,最长的非专业名词的单词是
Well, here's one that beats Disney. Sam found it in the Oxford English Dictionary. Their longest non-technical word is
我上网络牛津英语词典查询了bamboozled(欺骗,迷惑)。你也可以在那个网站看到第三版的初稿。
I looked up bamboozled in the Oxford English Dictionary online, that's where the draft third edition can be found.
我上网络牛津英语词典查询了bamboozled(欺骗,迷惑)。你也可以在那个网站看到第三版的初稿。
I looked up bamboozled in the Oxford English Dictionary online, that's where the draft third edition can be found.
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