虽然英语有2500多年的历史，但第一部英语词典直到17世纪才出现。
Although English has a history of over 2,500 years, the first English dictionary didn't appear until the 17th century.
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.
事实上，你现在使用的这种英语词典是清代以后才开始编写的。
In fact, an English dictionary like the kind you use today wasn't made until the time of the Qing Dynasty.
1879年，他成为了《牛津英语词典》的编辑。
根据三本著名的英语词典，这是气候变化。
It was climate (气候) change, according to three well-known English dictionaries.
他花在《牛津英语词典》上的时间比预期的要长得多。
《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。
不知道能否将《朗文当代英语词典》借给我用几天？
I wonder if you can lend me your Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English for a couple of days.
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."
它目前在英语词典中占有一席之地，不过最早以缩写出现。
This is now recognized as a legitimate English word meriting space in dictionaries but originated as an acronym.
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.
《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.
9月份，牛津大学出版社也在40多年的努力后，首次出版了祖鲁语-英语词典。
In September the Oxford University Press brought out the first isiZulu-English dictionary in more than 40 years.
这些数据被发现，作为对今年十月下一版柯林斯英语词典的出版进行的研究的一部分。
The data was discovered as part of research for the publication of the next Collins English Dictionary in October this year.
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".
但是，《美国传统英语词典》却说，gun moll源于一个已经过时的英国俚语。
But the American Heritage Dictionary says gun moll is based on obsolete British slang.
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.
《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.
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