You are the walking Oxford English Dictionary.
你是行走的牛津英语字典。
The largest dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED for short.
世界上最大的词典是《牛津英语词典》,简称 OED。
He uses those as discussion materials and then he's carefully indexed those against things like the Oxford English edition.
他用那些作为讨论材料,然后他仔细地索引了这些东西,比如牛津英语版。
The Oxford English Dictionary agrees, saying.
《牛津英语词典》也持相同的观点。
Take for example The Oxford English Dictionary citation dated 1646.
作为例子,我们在《 牛 津英语词典 》里找到一个年代为1646年的引语。
The Oxford English Dictionary claims that blizzard is a fairly new word.
牛津英语词典声称“ blizzard ”是一个相当新的词。
I find in the Oxford English Dictionary that there are ten words pale spelled pale.
我在《牛津英语词典》(OED)中看到十个含有pale的短语。
The Oxford English Dictionary has the original Greek translated as "a thing devoted."
牛津英语词典有其初始希腊翻译,为“挚爱的东西”。
The Oxford English Dictionary cites it around the year 900 in the Laws of King Alfred.
《牛津英语词典》对这个词的引用出自公元900年的《阿尔弗雷德大帝律法》。
Well, here's one that beats Disney. Sam found it in the Oxford English Dictionary.
这里有一个词可以打败迪斯尼的那个。
I've talked before about JRR Tolkien and his association with The Oxford English Dictionary.
我在前面已经谈论过关于托尔金和他与牛津英语词典的联系。
Sure enough the Oxford English Dictionary traces mess back to Anglo-Norman and Old French before that.
果真,《牛津英语词典》将mess一词的来源追溯至盎格鲁-诺曼语和之前的古法语。
The Oxford English Dictionary answers the first clearly enough: incent is "apparently a back formation".
《牛津英语词典》非常明确地回答了前一问题。 :Incent“明显是一个逆成词”。
But the first English citation that appears in the Oxford English Dictionary for Jockey is used in hate.
但是Jockey第一次出现在《牛津英语词典》中时,它带着仇恨。
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.
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。
One way to gauge the prevalence of a word is to consult the Oxford English Corpus, a body of 2 billion words.
要想判断一个词的流行程度,有一种方法就是查询拥有二十亿单词的牛津英语语料库。
I looked up bamboozled in the Oxford English Dictionary online, that's where the draft third edition can be found.
我上网络牛津英语词典查询了bamboozled(欺骗,迷惑)。你也可以在那个网站看到第三版的初稿。
Well, here's one that beats Disney. Sam found it in the Oxford English Dictionary. Their longest non-technical word is
这里有一个词可以打败迪斯尼的那个。萨姆在牛津英语词典中找到了它,最长的非专业名词的单词是
The Oxford English Corpus would have let me look at numerous contexts of the word to tease out whether this was the case.
若有牛津英语语料库,我或许就能从大量的语境中分辨出事实是否如此。
He passed away in 1888 and the Oxford English Dictionary traces the first time such poetry being called a limerick to 1896.
他于1888年去世,而《牛津英语词典》称这种诗歌第一次被称为“limerick”是在1896年。
The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first citation in the year when William Shakespeare was three years old, that's 1567.
《牛津英语词典》将它的第一条引语追溯到了1567年,也就是威廉·莎士比亚年仅三岁的时候。
I don't have access to the Oxford English Corpus so I don't know exactly what it would make of "proclivity" but here's what I did.
我没法登入牛津英语语料库,不清楚它如何处理proclivity(癖性,倾向)这个词。不过,我是这样来介绍proclivity的。
The Oxford English Dictionary dates the phrase mind-boggling to 1955 and defines it to mean “overwhelming, ” “startling” or “amazing.”
牛津英语词典上记载,词组mind-boggling(令人惊讶的)始于1955年,定义为“overwhelming(压倒性的)”“startling(令人吃惊的)”或“amazing(令人惊诧的)”。
The name entered the Oxford English Dictionary after just two years and the toy is a permanent exhibit in New York's Museum of Modern Art.
“魔方”的英文单词,也在两年后被收入了牛津英语词典,而且这款玩具更是成为纽约现代艺术博物馆的永久展品。
Take for example The Oxford English Dictionary citation dated 1646. It refers to King Richard II as being tantalized at Pontefract Castle.
举个1646年牛津英语字典引用的例子,用来指国王理查德二世在庞蒂弗拉克特城堡遭受tantalized。
Take for example The Oxford English Dictionary citation dated 1646. It refers to King Richard II as being tantalized at Pontefract Castle.
举个1646年牛津英语字典引用的例子,用来指国王理查德二世在庞蒂弗拉克特城堡遭受tantalized。
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