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。
You are the walking Oxford English Dictionary.
你是行走的牛津英语字典。
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。
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
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。
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 Oxford English Dictionary dropped 'cassette player' from its concise edition in 2011. It now seems this may have been premature.
2011年,《牛津简明英语词典》删除了“卡式录音机”这一词条。如今看来,此举似乎为时过早。
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。
Next year, I want the announcement to read, "the Oxford English dictionary has decided that WTF, o RLY, and BAMF are NOT in the dictionary."
明年,我希望读到这种声明,“牛津英语字典决定禁止WTF,ORLY,BAMF进入收录词汇。”
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。
The Oxford English Dictionary entry for ketchup hasn’t yet been updated for the third edition and has as its most recent citation an item dated 1874.
牛津英语词典中ketchup的词条还没有更新至第三版,其中最近的一条引述可追溯到1874年。
The Oxford English Dictionary entry for ketchup hasn't yet been updated for the third edition and has as its most recent citation an item dated 1874.
牛津英语词典中ketchup的词条还没有更新至第三版,其中最近的一条引述可追溯到1874年。
The Oxford English Dictionary entry for ketchup hasn't yet been updated for the third edition and has as its most recent citation an item dated 1874.
牛津英语词典中ketchup的词条还没有更新至第三版,其中最近的一条引述可追溯到1874年。
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