《牛津英语大词典》 通常简称为OED，是一部公认的权威历史性英语语文词典。
尽管牛津英文词典享誉全球，但是这本书并未给出版社赢利，并且每年还要花几百万镑来做调查研究。
But despite its global reputation, the OED has never made a profit and continues to cost several million pounds a year in research.
给他带来这些想法的，是O.E.D. （一般这样称《牛津英文词典》）网络版本的成功，以及那20卷印刷版有限的销售额。
What prompted those thoughts was the success of the online version of the O.E.D., as it is usually called, and the limited sales of the printed 20-volume edition.
《牛津英文词典》主编约翰·辛普森在声明中表示，“这至少打破了《牛津英语词典》的一个老规矩，就是一个新词从出现到考虑是否要被收入词典，需要十年时间。”
"This breaks at least one OED rule, namely that a new word needs to be current for ten years before consideration for inclusion," said the OED's chief editor John Simpson in a statement.
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