它不是严格意义的词源词典。
词典中可能对一个词会有几种不同的解释，它可能会有一些例句和在一些文中该词被运用的引用，还可能会涉及词源部分。
A dictionary may have several different meanings to a word; it may have sample sentences or citations in which the word was used; it may have an etymology.
由于词源学没有博物馆甚至也没有什么研究中心，词典也很少在这等细节上纠缠，在这里说明情况是必要的。
Since there is no museum of etymology or even a center for it and since dictionaries rarely dwell on such details, a post to explain the situation is needed.
不知道，这样的解释会不会让您失去品茶的雅兴。不过，它确实是词典编纂者和词源学家们在工作时所思考和揣测的问题。
I don't know if this will put you off your cup of tea but this really is what lexicographers and etymologists speculate about in their working hours.
在我所能找到的资料里，只有《未删节版韦氏词典》能指出该单词在拉丁语之前的词源。
The Merriam Webster Unabridged Dictionary is the only source that I found that points further back than Latin in its etymology.
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。
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.
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.
孟罗说，这本160页的英语俚语词典包括词条、定义、选段、例句、有关词源的注释和新俚语的来源。
The 160-page English-slanglish lexicon includes terms, definitions, parts of speech, sample sentences and notes on the etymology and origin of new slang, Munro said。
但它却与其他学科相关，如形态学、语义学、词源学、文体学和词典学等。
But it embraces other academic disciplines, such as morphology, semantics, etymology, stylistics, lexicography.
这部词典不介绍词源。
所有的校对人员都没有发现这个错误，但是五年后，一名编辑注意到这个词没有词源，然后他开始溯源并最终将这个词从词典中去除。
No proofreader caught the error, but five years later an editor noticed the word had no etymology and began the investigation that led to the word's being banished.
所有的校对人员都没有发现这个错误，但是五年后，一名编辑注意到这个词没有词源，然后他开始溯源并最终将这个词从词典中去除。
No proofreader caught the error, but five years later an editor noticed the word had no etymology and began the investigation that led to the word's being banished.
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