编词典的人生 The dictionary of lost wordsWritten by Pu Hui这本书有点漫画的感觉。从前1887英国牛津有个小屋子,屋子里面有一群人天天在里面埋头编字典,编的是第一本大英字典,万事开头难,字典更是,所有的字词都要用邮件或阅读的方式海选收集,欧洲有很多老图书馆,高大的木门推开以后,除了画满的天花板,四面全是...
If you liked The Dictionary of Lost Words, try these: Says Who? by Anne Curzan Published 2025 About This book A kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English, from linguist and vete...
On winning the award, Pip Williams hailed the work of Australia’s independent booksellers as they adapted to working in a pandemic lockdown: “The Dictionary of Lost Words was published just days into Australia’s first pandemic lockdown. The timing was awful for a debut...
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As she diligently devotes her life to the Oxford English Dictionary, Esme decides to give voice to the unwritten words by writing her own lexicon in secret—the Dictionary of Lost Words. Set in England in the harrowing era of women’s suffrage and the Great War, this fiction debut, by ...
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"Translations, like wives, are seldom faithful if they are in the least attractive" [Roy CampbellThe Poetry Review] "Some hold translation not unlike to be" "The wrong side of a Turkish tapestry" [Julia Ward HoweFamiliar Letters] Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabr...
Sisyphus at Oxford.(Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary)(Book Review)Preston, Caroline
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