That is the O.E.D. 's greatest value - as a guide to our spoken and written history.

这才是O.E.D .的最大价值——它引导我们了解英语口语和书面语的历史。

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The size of a Super Star Destroyer has vacillated in numerous publications, starting with an eight-kilometer length in 1984's A Guide to the Star Wars Universe.

超级歼星舰的尺寸在众多出版物中各不相同，最先在1984年的《星球大战宇宙指南》中被定为八千米长。

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A woodsman, boatman, or guide employed by a fur company to transport goods and supplies between remote stations in Canada or the U. S. Northwest.

林居人，伐木人，向导，船夫皮毛公司雇佣的伐木工人、船夫或向导，他们在加拿大或美国西北部偏远驿站间运送货物或补给。

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Before Doctor Spock's book appeared, the most popular guide to raising children was called "Psychological Care of Infant and Child."

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And knowing now how to calculate these free energies especially the Helmholtz and the Gibbs free energies,that's what's going to guide us in really calculating quantitatively, OK, where will equilibrium lie.

知道如何计算,这些自由能,尤其是亥姆赫兹和吉布斯自由能之后,这些数值计算就能告诉我们，平衡态到底是什么样子。

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The palmer has been Guyon's guide up to this point, his teacher.

他的老师，即那位朝圣者只将他带到洞口。

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As a teenager he devoured popular science fiction books like "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and "Ender's Game, " and always had a wild imagination.

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And there is Mario Sepulveda, whose face has become familiar in front of the camera, as the guide to the men's underground home.

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But the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has never had a problem with highly improbable events.

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