The idea for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary.

这本词典的想法来自1857年在英国的一次重要会议。22年后，牛津大学邀请詹姆斯·穆雷担任其新词典的编辑。

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Andrew Meldrum, an American, who's lived in Zimbabwe for over twenty years, is accused of publishing an untrue story and faces up to two years in prison if found guilty.

美国人安德鲁·梅尔德鲁姆在津巴布韦生活了20多年，他被指控发表了一篇不真实的报道，如果罪名成立，他将面临两年的监禁。

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In just two hours, streams can rise ten to twenty feet.

在短短两小时内，溪流的水位可以上升十到二十英尺。

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NACE's latest survey in March found that employers expected to hire twenty-two percent fewer graduates this year than last.

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I've been teaching this stuff for twenty years, and I tend to find two basic kinds of students who shop my classes for the New Testament Introduction course.

这门课我上了20年，发现所有参加新约导论的学生,大致可归为两类。

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There are no less than twenty pages devoted to the critical debate on these two lines: what the hell Saint Peter's two-handed engine is, what it looks like, what it does, what -- and everything about it.

集中描写这两行里的争论的,不少于20页：,圣彼得的双手引擎到底是什么，长什么样，用来干什么-和关于它的所有所有。

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Two big men no go give only twenty naira to two officers!

NEWYORKER: Baptizing the Gun

Because for me, it was a flame that my father passed on to me, through a brother who served in Vietnam, from his service in World War Two, to my twenty-two years and now we pass that flame on to my nephew, who has already done two tours of duty in Afghanistan.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Keeping "the flame" burning

It was twenty minutes to two.

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