过去,学生会被建议去买一本厚厚的双语词典作为学习英语的工具。
In the past, students were recommended to buy a thick bilingual dictionary as a tool to learn English.
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.
权衡在汉语词典中加入英语单词的利弊,这对我们来说是很有必要的。
It is necessary that we weigh the pros and cons of including English words in Chinese dictionaries.
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.
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.
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.
他花在《牛津英语词典》上的时间比预期的要长得多。
据《牛津词典》所说,英语中没有一个词能准确表达“hygge”的意思。
There is no English word for the exact meaning of "hygge", according to Oxford Dictionaries.
《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.”
这部词典能帮助我们理解英语词汇。
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》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.
识别真实单词以及把它们与乱码区分开变得非常困难,这些真实单词中有许多在普通的英语词典上也无法查到。
It turns out that it is quite difficult to identify real words, many of which are not likely to be found in a simple English dictionary, and to distinguish them from gibberish.
福勒的《现代英语用法词典》。
因为我有个朋友,开书店的,正在编一种百科词典,您有能力的话,可以为它翻译一些德语或英语的资料。
Because one of my friends, a publisher, is getting up a sort of an encyclopaedia, for which you might have translated English or German articles.
对于这种气质的人来说,最好的工具书就是梅里亚姆·韦伯斯特的《英语用法词典》。
The best usage book in this spirit is Merriam-Webster's "Dictionary of English usage".
《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.
如果时间允许,通读小小汉英词典对于英语学习也有很大帮助。它能帮助我们增加词汇量。
If time permits, we may read a mini Chinese-English dictionary carefully from cover to cover, which may help us widen our vocabulary.
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.
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."
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.
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.
词典的推测是,goal来自于一个意为障碍(barrier)的古英语词。
Their suspicion is that goal had come from an Old English word that had originally meant “barrier.”
《牛津英语词典》也持相同的观点。
柯林斯词典的一位女发言人说,该网站的盛名为它在2008年版的柯林斯英语词典中赢得了一席之地。
The site's soaring popularity has won its inclusion in the 2008 edition of the Collins English Dictionary, according to a Collins spokeswoman.
以英语为写作语言的书中有约半数的单词没有出现在一般的词典当中,研究者如是说道。
About half of the words used in English-language books don't appear in standard dictionaries, the researchers say.
以英语为写作语言的书中有约半数的单词没有出现在一般的词典当中,研究者如是说道。
About half of the words used in English-language books don't appear in standard dictionaries, the researchers say.
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