Lesson 11 But What’s a Dictionary For 课后练习及答案.docxVIP

EXERCISES 11 Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible: What critical views did the popular press express on the publication of Websters Third New International Dictionary? How much effort and money was spent on the making of this dictionary? What new science came into being between the appearance of the two editions of the dictionary? What are some of the features of this new science? Why are new dictionaries needed? How does the writer refute the criticisms of the popular press? What does the writer say about spelling and pronunciation? Why is the definition of a ‘door’ so complicated? Has the Third New International Dictionary any faults? II .Paraphrase: a flagrant example of lexicographic irresponsibility What underlies all this sound and fury? It cannot be described in terms of any other language, or even in terms of its own past. All languages are dynamic rather than static Even in so settled a matter as spelling, a dictionary cannot always be absolute. But neither his vanity nor his purse is any concern of the dictionarys Has the dictionary abdicated its responsibility? lexicography, like God, is no respecter of persons And this, too, is complex, subtle, and forever changing. the editorial charges the Third International with pretentious and obscure verbosity Translate the following into Chinese What underlies all this sound and fury? Is the claim of the G C Merriam Company, probably the worlds greatest dictionary maker, that the preparation of the work cost $3.5million, that it required the efforts of three hundred scholars over a period of twenty-seven years, working on the largest collection of citations ever assembled in any language -- is all this a fraud, a hoax? The definition reads: a movable piece of firm material or a structure supported usu. along one side and swinging on pivots or hinges,sliding along a groove, rolling up and down, revolving as one of four leaves, or folding like an accordion by means