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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They should be quick to respond to letters to the editor, lest animal rights misinformation go unchallenged and acquire a deceptive appearance of truth.

他们应该尽快回复读者来信，以免有关动物权利的错误信息大行其道，披上真理的骗人外衣。

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While this approach might seem to be out of order, the editor posits that it might be in order of difficulty.

尽管这种方式的顺序看起来有些不合常理，但编辑假定这可能是按照困难程度来安排的。

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The words of Jacob Riis' editor proved to be very true.

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As confidant and adviser to leading conservative politicians, Buckley had far more political influence than might be expected from the editor of a weekly journal.

NEWYORKER: Confounding Fathers

The multiplicity of sources on the Web forces the reader to be his own editor, and not many people are inclined to do all the work of scanning a variety of the relevant sites to get a full picture.

CNN: Commentary: News can outlast newspapers

One solution, proposed by Matt Ridley, a British commentator on the social consequences of genetic knowledge (and former science editor of The Economist), might be the creation of medical-treatment funds, similar to pension funds.

ECONOMIST: A survey of the human genome