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1. He became the editor of OED in the year 1879.: 1879年，他成为了《牛津英语词典》的编辑。

2. The time he spent on OED was much longer than expected.: 他花在《牛津英语词典》上的时间比预期的要长得多。

3. The largest dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED for short.: 世界上最大的词典是《牛津英语词典》，简称 OED。

4. The OED defines LOL as an interjection "used chiefly in electronic communications… to draw attention to a joke or humorous statement, or to express amusement".: 《牛津英语词典》将LOL定义为一个叹词，“主要用于电子通信……以引起对笑话和幽默语句的注意，或表示可笑”。

5. The OED puts it best: “A wooden head, a wooden block for hats or wigs; hence, a head with no more intelligence in it than one of these, a blockish head.”: 《牛津英语词典》的解释最恰当：“一个木制的头，戴帽子或假发的木头，因此，这种脑袋中放不下才智，含义为愚蠢的人。”

6. The OED gives 69 definitions of stock.: 《牛津英语词典》给出了69种关于stock的定义。

7. Such is indeed the case with the OED Second Edition.: 《牛津英语字典》第二版确实就有这样的事。

8. It is his work that is still reflected in the current OED entry.: 这就是他的工作，在现在的牛津英语词典该条目中仍然可以看到。

9. Still, the other etymological sources I checked seemed to agree with the OED.: 即便如此，我查阅的其他资料似乎与OED吻合。

10. This according to the OED was the first occurrence of paparazzi in English.: 根据《牛津英语词典》的信息，这是单词 paparazzi首次在英语中的亮相。

11. And even the OED provides mostly historical examples from the 1800s and 1900s.: 甚至是《牛津英语词典》提供的也多是19世纪到20世纪那些比较老的例句。

12. One of the citations in the OED entry for ellipse is from a fellownamed Liddell.: 在牛津英语词典(OED)里，这个词的一条引用是出自一个叫里德尔的家伙。

13. It means to do some sort of damage and the OED claims it's from Afro-American origins.: 它的意思是造成一定破坏，OED称其出自美国黑人英语。

14. I see that the entrys in the OED second and draft third edition are a little different.: 我在OED第二版和第三版草稿上看到其条目略有不同。

15. The OED online gives a first citation of gazpacho from 1845 and even gives a recipe.: 牛津在线词典关于gazpacho最早例证来自1845年，甚至还给出了它的配方。

16. You can tell that this particular entry in the OED has not been updated too recently.: 你可以看到，最近一版的OED中，这个词条仍旧没有更新。

17. The OED tells me that this word comes from ancient Greek where Nemesis was a goddess.: 《牛津英语词典》(OED)告诉我说，这个单词来自古希腊语，Nemesis是指复仇女神。

18. Ingram says OED also undertakes field inspections on 25% of all completed Bank projects.: Ingram说业务评价局还对世行所有项目中的25%进行实地考察。

19. Though the “soaked bread” etymology appears in a few sources the OED simply says it’s from Spanish.: 尽管“泡汤面包”的词根在《牛津词典》里出现过几次，但它仅仅写到这个词来自西班牙语。

20. The OED entry is updated to 2003 but evidently this meaning of mundane has been used since 1955 or 59.: 《牛津词典》中的mundane在2003年才更新，很明显，mundane这一含义在1955年或1959年就出现了。

21. In the OED sometimes you can see an etymology traced through words that have a little star beside them.: 我曾经提到过，在OED里，你可以看到某个单词在回溯词源的过程中，经历了一些词的演变，在那些词的旁边标着一颗小星星。

22. When the OED traced the origins of the acronym, they discovered 1980s computer fanatics were responsible.: 当《牛津英语词典》追溯这个首字母缩写词的来源时发现，上个世纪八十年代的计算机狂热爱好者应为此负责。

23. OED says the answer to that question is "yes" for 73-74% of all Bank projects it reviewed over the year 2003.: 业务评价局认为2003年检查的世行项目中有73- 74%对这个问题的回答是肯定的。

24. Both Merriam-Webster and the OED say they were used for pirating, which fits with the “hunt” and “chase” theme.: 《韦氏词典》与《牛津英语词典》都说，此类船曾经被用来进行海盗活动，这与“猎捕”和“追逐”的主要意思也是符合的。

25. The entry is one of several controversial phrases among 45, 436 new definitions in the latest online edition of the OED.: 这次收录的心形符号是牛津在线词典最新收录的45, 436个新词条中比较受争议的一个。

26. As with most French words mess actually goes back to Latin and the OED even takes it back further to Indo-European.: 真如大多数法语单词一样，mess实际上可以追溯到拉丁语，《牛津英语词典》甚至更进一步追溯至印欧语。

27. So in the late ‘60s when The Lord of the Rings was making its first rise to popularity the OED added hobbit as an entry.: 因此，在60年代晚期，当《指环王》译文广为流行的时候，《牛津英语词典》将hobbit作为一个词条加进了词典。

28. One, fubar supposedly standing for “fu**ed up beyond all recognition” actually has made it into the OED along with snafu.: 举例来说，fubar（没法处理的）代表fu**ed upbeyondallrecognition（面目全非），这个词和snafu一同出现在OED里。

29. I guess because the Blegburn Dickshonary is cited in several places by the OED it reflects a sense of humor there too.: 我猜，由于《牛典》在不同地方多次引用了《布莱克本词典》，所以人们也同样在《牛典》中感受到他的幽默。

30. That's the number of projects rated by the OED as satisfactory - a project meeting its objectives with few shortcomings.: 这就是业务评价局给予满意评分的项目数，满意的定义是项目达到了既定目标，很少不足之处。

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