英语释义

• an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles

片语

oed rest俄莱斯特（男子名）

Experiment on App oed Optics应用光学实验

OED Organization and Employee Development组织和员工发展

OED的故事The Meaning of Everything

OED Online牛津英语词典在线版

Oxford English Dictionary OED牛津英语词典

OED II牛津英文大字典第二版

英汉例句

• Though the 「soaked bread」 etymology appears in a few sources the OED simply says it’s from Spanish.

  尽管「泡汤面包」的词根在《牛津词典》里出现过几次，但它仅仅写到这个词来自西班牙语。

• OED says the answer to that question is 「yes」 for 73-74% of all Bank projects it reviewed over the year 2003.

  业务评价局认为2003年检查的世行项目中有73- 74%对这个问题的回答是肯定的。

• But despite its global reputation, the OED has never made a profit and continues to cost several million pounds a year in research.

  尽管牛津英文词典享誉全球，但是这本书并未给出版社赢利，并且每年还要花几百万镑来做调查研究。

• Back when the Oxford English Dictionary admitted 「LOL」 and a few other internet-related neologisms to its collection, someone complained that the OED 「is supposed to have dignity」.

  当牛津英语字典将「LOL」及一小部分其他网络新词收录进来之后，一些人开始抱怨了，说「牛津字典应该要有底线」。

• I guess because the Blegburn Dickshonary is cited in several places by the OED it reflects a sense of humor there too.

  我猜，由于《牛典》在不同地方多次引用了《布莱克本词典》，所以人们也同样在《牛典》中感受到他的幽默。

• The board of the OED decided they would throw a party for these hard working volunteers and give them a little thank you memento.

  OED编纂委员会决定为辛苦工作的志愿者举办一个派对，并送上纪念品以示感谢。

• Tomatoes are mentioned in the OED entry but it was the year before that, in 1873 that the H. J. Heinz company began selling tomato ketchup.

  牛津英语词典中也提到了番茄。那是在1873年，H .J .Heinz公司开始售卖番茄酱。

• While the New Oxford American Dictionary or Merriam Webster says Satan or the Devil, the OED says that Lucifer is a word misused to mean devil.

  新牛津美语词典与韦氏大词典给出的解释都是撒旦或恶魔（Devil），而OED则写道，Lucifer这个词被「误用为」恶魔之意。

• If the OED weren「t a dictionary, I would be worried that it was a pedophile, given that it spends all its time hanging around people hundreds of years younger trying to seem cool.

  OED整天围着几百年后的这些装酷的年轻人，如果它不是一部字典，我会担心它是一个恋童癖。

• That」s the number of projects rated by the OED as satisfactory - a project meeting its objectives with few shortcomings.

  这就是业务评价局给予满意评分的项目数，满意的定义是项目达到了既定目标，很少不足之处。

• The OED online in its newsletters section shows an image of some of JRR’s hand written notes concerning walrus and it is evident that he pondered over the word for some time.

  在线上牛津英语词典的新闻通讯栏目，展示了一个托尔金关于海象的手稿照片，这足以证明他为这个单词沉思了一些时间。

• One, fubar supposedly standing for 「fu**ed up beyond all recognition」 actually has made it into the OED along with snafu.

  举例来说，fubar（没法处理的）代表fu**edupbeyondallrecognition（面目全非），这个词和snafu一同出现在OED里。

• One of the citations in the OED entry for ellipse is from a fellownamed Liddell.

  在牛津英语词典(OED)里，这个词的一条引用是出自一个叫里德尔的家伙。

• So in the late ‘60s when The Lord of the Rings was making its first rise to popularity the OED added hobbit as an entry.

  因此，在60年代晚期，当《指环王》译文广为流行的时候，《牛津英语词典》将hobbit作为一个词条加进了词典。

• I see that the entrys in the OED second and draft third edition are a little different.

  我在OED第二版和第三版草稿上看到其条目略有不同。

• One might not be surprised to find that a dictionary definition of this vintage omits a Japanese viewpoint. Such is indeed the case with the OED Second Edition.

  看到这个年份的单词定义省略掉了日本方面的观点，我们不会惊奇。《牛津英语字典》第二版确实就有这样的事。

• For example, OED found a quotation for OMG in a personal letter from 1917, and FYI (for Your Information) originated in the language of memoranda in 1941.

  比如，OED发现，一封写于1917年的信中出现了OMG的字样，FYI (forYourInformation，可供参考)出现在写于1941年的备忘录中。

• Such is indeed the case with the OED Second Edition.

  《牛津英语字典》第二版确实就有这样的事。

• The OED is in a unique position of authority because Tolkien actually worked there for a few years early in his career. Plus a later editor had studied under Tolkien「s professorship.

  《牛津英语词典》处于独特的权威地位，因为在早年的职业生涯中，托尔金事实上在那里工作过几年，加之后来的一个编辑师从教授身份的托尔金从事研究工作。

• It means to do some sort of damage and the OED claims it」s from Afro-American origins.

  它的意思是造成一定破坏，OED称其出自美国黑人英语。

• The OED explains that shorthands such as LOL and OMG have gone beyond just saving space and acquired nuanced meanings of their own, with 「a bit more than simple abbreviation going on.」

  牛津英语词典解释说诸如LOL或者OMG之类的缩写，它们的作用已经远远超过了节省空间，而且它们的意思已经有异于它们的原型，是「比单纯的缩略语更多一些些」。

• And he says OED is now carrying out impact reviews of projects, with a review of education projects in Ghana recently completed and work underway on health projects in Bangladesh.

  他说，业务评价局目前正在对项目进行影响考察，对加纳的教育项目考察最近刚结束，目前正在对孟加拉的卫生项目进行考察。