[语言/文字] 万物之要义:<牛津英语词典>编纂记 The Meaning of Everything : The...

The Meaning of Everything : The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary  2nd Edition
作者: Simon Winchester
出版社: Oxford University Press
出版年: 2018-07

万物之要义:<牛津英语词典>编纂记（英文原版）  第二版

一部词典是一座历史纪念碑，是从某种观点观察的民族的历史——一种语言误入歧途和进入正途同样具有教育意义。
引自 第一章
作者简介  · · · · · ·
西蒙•温切斯特（Simon Winchester，中文名文思淼），英国著名作家、记者。1944年生，1966年牛津大学地质系毕业后，担任《卫报》（Guardian）及《星期日泰晤士报》（Sunday Times）的海外特派员。为《纽约时报》、《史密森学会月刊》（Smithsonian）、《观察家》（Spectator）、《国家地理杂志》、BBC等媒体撰稿。主要作品有：《OED的故事》（The Meaning of Everything）、《世界边缘的裂缝》（A Crack in the Edge of the World）、《喀拉喀托火山爆发记》（Krakatoa）、《改变世界的地图》（The Map That Changed the World），以及《世界中央的河流》（The River at the Center of the World）、《大英帝国边境》（Outposts）等。目前最新作品是《热爱中国的人：李约瑟传》（The Man Who Loved China）。

'The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was indeed a monumental achievement, gleaned from the efforts of hundreds of ordinary and extraordinary people who made it their mission to catalogue the English language in its entirety.In The Meaning of Everything, Simon Winchester celebrates this remarkable feat, and the fascinating characters who played such a vital part in its execution, from the colourful Frederick Furnivall, cheerful promoter of an all-female sculling crew, to James Murray, self-educated son of a draper, who spent half a century guiding the project towards fruition. Along the way we learn which dictionary editor became the inspiration for Kenneth Grahame's Ratty in The Wind in theWillows, and why Tolkien found it so hard to define 'walrus'.Written by the bestselling author of The Surgeon of Crowthorne and The Map That Changed the World, The Meaning of Everything is an enthralling account of the creation of the world's greatest dictionary.

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