我最喜欢的一个例子是关于牛津英文字典的，1857年人们开始编纂这本字典，预计五年完成，结果五年后，人们只编到了“ant”这个单词。

My favourite one is always the example of the Oxford English Dictionary that they started in 1857 and it was supposed to take five years, but five years later they'd only got to the word 'ant'.

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我很想买这本字典，遗憾的是我身上带的钱不够。

I want to buy this dictionary very much, it's a pity money which I carried on one's body is not enough.

youdao

我很想买这本字典，遗憾的是我身上带的钱不够。

I want to buy this dictionary very much, it's a pity money which I carried on one's body is not enough.

youdao