牛津袖珍英语词典

THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARYYou may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. The spelling of English has always been a problem but it was more of a problem in the days before a dictionary. Then people could spell words in different ways which you might find interesting. But it made reading English much more difficult. So dictionaries were invented to encourage everybody to spell the same. In fact, an English dictionary like the kind you use today wasn't made until the time of the late Qing Dynasty. Three men did most of the important early work on dictionaries: Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, and James Murray. These men spent nearly all of their lives trying to collect words for their dictionaries. For them, it wasn't only a job; it was a wonderful journey of discovery. The largest dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED for short. 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.Murray had never been to college. At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank. Later he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a place built in the garden behind his house to do his work. Part of it was one metre underground. In winter it felt like a barn, he had to wear a heavy coat and put his feet in a box to keep warm. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o'clock and worked several hours before breakfast. Often he would work by candle light into the evening. Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was still adding words for the letter A! Then others went to work with Murray, including his two daughters. He worked on the dictionary until he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished it. It included more than 15,000 words in twelve books. And you thought your English dictionary was big!你可能认为英文字典已经存在了很多，许多世纪以来使用。英语拼写一直是一个问题，但它是一个字典的前一个问题更多的日子。那么，人们可以以不同的方式拼写，你可能会感兴趣的话。但它使阅读英文困难得多。所以字典发明，鼓励大家拼写相同。对他们来说，不仅是一份工作，这是一个探索发现的奇妙旅程。世界上最大的字典是牛津英语字典，或者简称为执行主任办公室。对于这本字典的想法是来自英国的一个重要会议于1857年。二十二年后，牛津大学问詹姆斯穆雷是其新词典的编辑。穆雷从来没有上过大学。在十四岁，他离开他的村庄在苏格兰的学校，自学而在一家银行上班。后来，他成为一个伟大的老师。牛津大学后给他的工作，穆雷曾在自家房子后面的花园建成一个地方做他的工作。它的地下部分为一米。在冬季，感觉就像是一个粮仓，他不得不穿上厚重的大衣，放在一个盒子来保暖了起来。每天早上起床,默里和五点钟前的几小时的早餐。他经常会在蜡烛光到晚上。Murray希望完成新的词典在十多年了。但是五年之后,他还增加了对字母词!然后其他人去工作,包括他的两个女儿默里。他曾在字典里,直到他很老了。44年后,也就是1928年,其他的编辑完成它。它包含了超过1万5千字在十二卷。你认为你的英语词典是伟大的

最好看一下你词典前面的使用说明。

看一下我对前一本词典的评论。昨天到手了《牛津英汉双解小词典》第9版，感觉不是很好。简要分析一下优缺点：优点：1.是南京爱德印刷，纸质好，又轻又薄，一千多页只有很薄的一本。2.出版社权威，比国内的英汉词典要好。3.英汉双解，释义简洁。缺点：1.收词量两万左右，不太多。2.义项太少，比如说air都没有列出by air是乘飞机的意思（见我的图片），这是最大的缺点。有人说这适合初学者查阅，问题是by air这种类型的简单词组和义项正是初学者需要学习的，是最常见的，这个都没有，还有什么用？你要是说air有“广播”“烘干”这种义项是初学者不需要的，我倒是同意，问题是这两个义项词典里面反倒包含了。3.没有任何例句，在英汉双解释义都非常简单的情况下，没有例句，可以说根本无法掌握一个单词，因为你不知道怎么使用，比如说一个形容词，你通过这本词典只知道简单意思和词性，却不知道用来形容人还是动物还是死物，也不知道能不能用来作定语或者表语。柯林斯词典的整句释义倒是在没有例句的情况下也可以知道如何使用，可是人家却反倒是例句最精彩的一本词典。有人说这种简洁释义适合背诵和快速查阅，问题是背诵时并不需要英汉双解，因为英汉双解主要是为了便于理解而设置的，你在背诵时需要有一定效率，恐怕不适合既看英语释义又看中文释义。其次，前面已经说过，这一本词典释义和义项特别少，一些重要义项都没有，你要是用来查阅生词，岂不是会经常失望？4.这本词典已经不是当年的（也就是这本词典封面后边北京外国语大学熊德(车儿)教授推荐的）《牛津英语小词典》（Little Oxford Dictionary）了，现在这本词典叫做Little Oxford English Dictionary，虽然只多了一个English，但是其所依据母本已经不同了，并且英语释义也已经用词简单了，虽然有利于理解，但也丧失了原有的精确。5.昨天看见别人说monstrous这个单词音标有错误，少了一个／n／，我看了一下自己买的，确实有错误。综上所述，不建议购买这一本词典。