United States lexicographer (1758-1843)

would you ask noah webster to play boggle ?would you ask jacques cousteau to play go fish?

你会叫韦伯斯特去玩猜字游戏吗?你会叫雅克·库斯托去玩钓鱼?。

noah webster thought that a common language would bring people together and help create a new identity that would make the country truly independent of the british.

美国辞典编纂家诺亚-韦伯斯特认为，统一语言将会使人们更有凝聚力，并获得新的身份，这有助于美国真正的脱离英国而独立。

at that time two big changes in english spelling happened: first samuel johnson wrote his dictionary and later noah webster wrote the american dictionary of the english language.

当时，英语的拼写发生了两个很大的变化：先是塞缪尔?约翰逊编写了他的英语词典，后是诺亚?韦伯斯特出版了《美国英语词典》。

one big change in english usage happened when noah webster wrote the american dictionary of the english language, giving american english its own identity.

?英语用法发生了一次大变化，那就是在诺厄·韦伯斯特编撰的《美国英语词典》的那个时期，这本词典体现了美国英语的特色。

this was something supported not only by the american lexicographer noah webster but by figures like jefferson and adams so there was no question of declaring an official language.

当时支持这样做的不仅有美国辞典学家韦伯斯特，还有其他着名人士，比如杰弗逊和亚当斯，英语便理所当然地成为官方语言。

since by 1935 noah webster had been dead lo those 90 years we will turn our gaze instead to the new international dictionary, second edition that was printed in his name in that year.

到1935年时，诺亚·韦伯斯特已经去世90年了，我们要把目光转而聚焦在那一年用他的名字来印制的第二版《新国际词典》中。

in 1828 noah webster published the first american dictionary.

1828年，诺亚·韦伯斯特出版了第一本美语字典。

first published in 1783, this reference book by the american man of letters noah webster (1758-1843) remained a bestseller in the u.s. throughout the 19th century.

1783年初版后，这本由研究语言文字的美国男子诺亚·韦伯斯特(1758-1843)编写的参考书在整个19世界都一直占据美国畅销书榜。