2013外研版选修九Module6《Why-Do-We-Need-Dictionaries》.ppt

Module 6 Why do we need dictionaries Language points 1．Dictionaries are like watches：the worst is better than none，and the best cannot be expected to go quite true． 词典就如手表：再差也比没有强，而最好的也不能指望完全正确。 2· Samuel Johnson(1709--1784)was one of Britain’s greatest literary figures of all time． 搴缪尔·约翰逊(1709—1784)是英国有史以来最伟大的文人之一。 of all time 一直，永远 3·He signed a contract in June 1746 but the dictionary did not appear until 1755． 1746年6月他签署了一份合同，但直到1755年词典才得以出版。 4．What happened to the other 8,000 words? Johnson said that Baileys book contained too many foreign words，so he omitted them! 其余的那8,000个词汇昵? 约翰逊说贝利的书里包含了太多的外来词，他就把它们给删掉了! 5·Johnson’S dictionary was the first to illustrate the meanings of words by using literary quotations，usually from works by the playwright and poet William Shakespeare (1564—1616) and the English poets John Milton(1608--1674)and John Dryden (1631--1700)． 约翰逊的词典是第一本引用文学作品来解释词意的，通常这些引语来自剧作家、诗人威廉·莎士比亚(1564--1616)，英国诗人约翰·米尔顿(1608--1674)和约翰·德莱顿(1631--1700)的作品。 6·Samuel Johnson’s dictionary had many faults：it was old-fashioned，he gave no help with pronunciation and he used older spellings rather than the newer simplified spellings that most writers were using． 塞缪尔·约翰逊的词典有很多瑕疵：守旧，对语音无所助益，采用的是旧式拼写而不是大多数作家使用着的较新式的简化拼写。 7.The three men，Richard Chenevix Trench，Herbert Coleridge and Frederick Furnivall, were all members of the London Philological Society and they were all unhappy with existing dictionaries，including Samuel Johnson’s． 这三个人，理查德．切尼威克斯·特伦奇、赫伯特·柯尔律治和弗雷德里克·弗尼瓦尔都是伦敦语文学会的成员，他们对现行的词典都不甚满意，其中包括塞缪尔·约翰逊的词典。 be unhappy with 对……不满： Anyone who is unhappy with his/her results can take the exam again． 任何人对成绩不满意都可以重考。 8. Trench suggested writing a new dictionary based on contributions from a large number of volunteers． 特伦奇建议编写一部基于大批志愿者投稿的新词典。 9．Things improved when a man called James Murray became the editor． 在一位叫詹姆斯·默里的人当上编辑之后情况得到了改善。 10 The project was clearly too big for one person to edit, so Murray enlarged the editing team． 虽然，这项工作由一个人编辑任务太重，因此默里扩大了编辑队伍。