The column grew from Stephen's love of the great dictionary-maker's humanity, and of the original Johnson's hatred of cant.

这个专栏源于斯蒂芬对这位伟的词典编纂者的人性的热爱，以及最初的约翰逊对伪善的憎恨。

Answers.com is the unber dictionary and encyclopedia on the internet.

Answers.com是网上的终极词典和百科全书。

In addition, many of the words added to the OED in recent years are portmanteaus.

此外，近年来《牛津英语词典》收录的许多单词都是合成词。

Fixing an error or inaccuracy - that's how the dictionary defines a correction.

修正错误或误差，这就是词典对调整的定义。

The 2019 competition's coming up next week in the U.S. state of Maryland and a group of linguists from Babel, a language learning tool teamed up with folks from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary to determine the hardest words from the past decade.

2019年度词汇于下周在美国马里兰举行，来自 Babel 公司的一群语家与《韦氏词典》的编辑们合作，选出过去十年中最难的词汇。

Once you finish reading through the book one time just for enjoyment, we're gonna make a dictionary that is specific to you and to the book that you're reading.

等你只是单纯为了愉悦，读完一遍之后，我们要来自制专门针对自己还有这本书的词典。

After that, you'll be able to read any transcription and know how to pronounce any word, even without the help of the Oxford Learner's Dictionary.

那之后你就能够阅读任何书面文本，并且会发任何单词，即使没有牛津习者词典的帮助也可以。

So listen, Merriam-Webster is a good online dictionary.

听着，韦氏词典是一本很好的在线词典。

What's ironic is that Professor Zuckermann used the missionary's dictionary not to spread Christianity and English, but to save an Aboriginal language from extinction, so he calls it 'topsy-turvy', meaning upside down.

具有讽刺意味的是，扎克曼教授使用这本传教士的词典并不是为了传播基督教和英语，而是为了拯救一种濒临消亡的土著语，所以他称之为“颠倒的过程”，意思是倒过来。

I'm looking for my dictionary. I can't find it.

我在找我的词典。我找不到它了。

Because maybe they have an electronic dictionary of some sort on their mobile phone.

他们的手机上可能有电子词典之类的工具。

In the span of just a year, a word like " rizz" can go from complete obscurity to becoming the Oxford English Dictionary word of the year.

短短一年间，“rizz”这样的词就能从默默无闻，一跃成为《牛津英语词典》的年度词汇。

So, Anne, I know you looked into some of Dictionary.com's new word choices.

安妮，我知道你研究了一些词典网站收录的新词。

Our final piece of advice is to listen to recordings from an online dictionary.

我们最后的建议是听在线词典上的录音。

And in 2023, authentic is Miriam Webster's official word of the year.

在2023年，真实性成为韦氏词典的年度词汇。

Use an English learner's dictionary such as Oxford, Cambridge, or Macmillan to find the vocabulary.

使用一本英语习者的词典，像是牛津词典、剑桥词典或麦克米伦词典来查找词汇。

He studied the French dictionary for nine weeks.

他了九个星期的法语词典。

But using these, or any word that appears in a dictionary, is insecure.

但是使用这些词语，包括任何出现在词典中的单词做密码，都是不安全的。

This year, Dictionary.com selected the word " complicit" as its word of the year.

今年，词典网站选出的年度词汇是“complicit（同谋的）”。

Well, that's what the dictionary is for.

这时候就是词典的用武之地了。