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本帖最后由 Oeasy 于 2015-7-30 01:05 编辑
Make Your Own Dictionary
I must thank very sincerely the many readers who have written to inquire about my Dictionary of English Usage. It was always going to be published, and it has not yet been published. This is partly because of my occupation with other literary matters; in fact, I work on the book only off and on. But the chief reason is that being a conscientious learner of English I am always careful to avoid slipshod on perfunctory work. I take notes for the book almost every day—both from reading and from the questions bout usage that I am asked by persons interested in the subject. Very often a seemingly simple question reminds me of some important point that I might not otherwise think of. I hope that the delay in publication will be compensated for by the richer and better contents of the book.
Now I think that every learner could make his own dictionary of usage. He could keep a notebook in which to record, in alphabetical order, such points of usage as he might find of particular interest to him. Such a book would serve him as a constant companion to composition, though many things in it might seem quite dull or useless to others.
And I think that every learner could make his dictionary of usage as large as the sum total of the books he reads. I mean that he might make a usage index, so to speak, to those books. For a particular point he would have to record only the book, the page, and the line concerned. He would some day be able to point to his library and say "This is my dictionary of English usage". What a great work!
Indeed, I wish I could find time to do this. And I believe that I could thus lay the foundation of a live and original dictionary—quite different from those based on nothing but one or more dictionaries.
这是葛传椝老先生1938年写的短文，摘自http://ishare.iask.sina.com.cn/f/34889922.html。70多年过后的今天，要make my own dictionary or even corpus那真是再容易不过了。{:5_227:}
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发表于 2013-12-21 10:33:33
