Unit 2 Nine Years For A and B

Unit Two Nine Years For A and B

Christopher is a British critic. The present text is his review of Caught in the Web of Words,a biography of James A. H. Murry by his granddaughter K. M.Elizabeth Murray.

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About the text

Dr. Johnson was the greatest man who made a dictionary. ----Samuel Johnson (1709—84) was one of the most important 18th century English writers. His Dictionary Appeared in 1755. It was the most famous English dictionary before Webster, and perhaps the best before the Oxford English Dictionary.

Before Johnson no standard dictionary of the English existed. The want had troubled speakers of English for some time, both because Italian and French academies had produced major dictionaries of their own tongues, and because in the absence of any authority, English seemed to change utterly from one generation to another…A dictionary could help retard such change. In 1764 a group of London publishers commissioned Johnson, still an unknown author, to undertake the project. He hoped to finish in three years; it took him nine. But the quantity and quality of the work he accomplished, aided only by 6 part-time a ssistants, made him famous as ?Dictionary Johnson‘. The dictionary remained a standard reference book for 100 years.

His achievement is notable in 3 respects:

1.its size(40,000 words)

2.the wealth of illustrative quotations(about 114,000 quotations gathered from the best English writers)

3.the excellence of its definitions ( Though a small selection concentrates on a few amusing or notorious definitions, the great majority are full, clear and totally free from eccentricity. Indeed many of them are still repeated in modern dictionaries.)

James A. H. Murray was the man who made the greatest dictionary. --- Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry, 1837—1915, English lexicographer. From 1879 he was editor of the New English Dictionary( the Oxford English Dictionary), the major work of his career; it was published in 1928.

The Oxford English Dictionary is the largest dictionary of the English language that has ever been published. The O. E. D. consists of 12 volumes and contains over 400,000 words. Its essential feature is what we often refer to as the historical method. The meaning and form of each word in the Dictionary are traced from their earliest appearance on the basis of an immense number of quotations collected by more than 800 volunteer readers. James Murray edited nearly half of the Dictionary, the other scholars responsible for the rest of the work being Henry Bradley,

Sir William Craigie and Dr. C. T. Onions.

― a harmless drudge‖ ---- In Dr. Johnson‘s Dictionary the word lexicographer is defined as ―a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge ‖ . (18 世纪英国文豪Samuel Johnson 称字典编撰为success without applause, diligence without reward<无偿劳作, 虽成无荣>, 又称编字典的人为unhappy mortals [ 不幸的噍类] , harmless drudges [无害的苦工] , 指的是惨淡经营充其量只指望无害的结果。--- ---前言，英汉大词典)

“Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.‖ --Samuel Johnson

―Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.‖

--Samuel Johnson

drudgery ----hard boring work

I thought feminism was about liberating women from enforced domestic and maternal drudgery.

Electronic information retrieval will remove much of the drudgery of research and leave time for the more interesting bits.

drudge ---- a person who does hard boring work

I feel like a real drudge –I‘ve done nothing but clean all day!

His wife is treated as a mere drudge.

vista ---- a view that is long rather than broad; prospects or possibilities

He could see through the tall windows a vista of green fields.

As dean, he opened up exciting vistas of (= new possibilities for ) inter-departmental links.

In an already troubled region, fresh conflict like this raises frightening vistas.

Classically derived words ---- words of Greek or Latin origin

Will-o’ –the-wisp ---- a bluish moving light seen at night over wet ground because of the burning of waste gases from decayed plants; an undependable person or idea, aim that can not be reached

Chase up ---- take action in order to discover something

They had to chase up the shop to deliver the bed.

black ---- The word is used here to mean ? bad ‘ or ?hopeless ‘ . (Some people avoid using black to mean bad, as it might offend black people.)

When his business failed he experienced black despair.

The future looked black ( = without hope ).

If you paint a black picture of a situation you describe it as extremely bad. If a person is not as black as he they are painted they are not as bad as people say they are. A black comedy is a film, play, etc. That looks at the amusing side of things we usually take very seriously, like death or illness. Black humour is an amusing way of looking at or treating something that is serious or sad. The black marke t is things bought and sold, money changed, etc. illegally.

get a move on ---- ( slang ) hurry; move quickly

He will never finish the work if he doesn‘t get a move on.

The dictionary is taking longer to record linguistic events than they take to happen ---- New words and expressions constantly find their way into speech while the dictionary requires much longer time to record these linguistic phenomena.

keep up ---- continue doing or having something

You are doing well, keep it up.

When I stopped studying I was still keen to keep up my French.

If you keep up appearances you pretend to be happier, less poor, etc. than you really are, because you do not want people to know how bad your situation is: They were unhappily married but kept up appearances for the sake of their children.

go for ---- be true for or relate to

What Mary‘s just said goes for me too ( = I agree with what she said ).

?You really need to smarten up your appearance, Chris, and I don‘t know what you lot are smiling about, because the same goes for the rest of you.

return ---- revenues; profit

The return/returns on the money we invested was/were very low.

nagging---- criticizing or complaining repeatedly and annoyingly, often as a way to persuade ( someone ) to do something

The way he keeps on nagging about the smallest things really gets on my nerves.

( If something such as a worry, doubt or question is nagging( at ) you, it is continuously and annoyingly in your mind: Several worries were nagging ( at ) her. )

falter ---- lose strength or purpose and ( almost ) stop

The dinner part conversation faltered for a moment.

Her friends never faltered in their belief in her.

providence ---- an influence which is not human in origin and is thought to control whether or not people receive the things which they need

As a monk he trusts to divine that he will receive food.

Willpower---- the ability to control one‘s thoughts and the way in which one behaves; determination

It took a lot of willpower to stay calm and not panic.

He succeeded through an enormous exercise of willpower.

Converge ---- move towards or meet at one place

All the paths across the park converge at the main gate.

There was once a big difference between the two politicians, but now their ideas seem to be converging ( = becoming similar ).

Would he have acknowledged that one of the things providence did for him was mercifully to withhold a full sense of the task that was never to end for him? ---- When he started to undertak e the enterprise, he obviously didn‘t have any idea as how difficult the task was. Neither did he know that he would never see the publication of the whole dictionary in his life. Maybe all this had been arranged by God, who was so kind to him as to keep all this from his awareness ( in order to keep up his spirits ). Murray might have felt obliged to God if he were aware of God‘s painstaking intentions then.

magnitude ---- the large size or importance ( of something )

They don‘t seem to grasp the m agnitude of the problem.

set out (on, as, in) ---- begin ( a plan of action, esp. with a particular aim )

She set out as an actress with the help of the director.

Like so many young people before them, they set out to change the world.

to set out on one‘s lifework

pertinacity ---- strong persistence or determination

Like so many successful politicians, he can pursue his goals with pertinacity.

be alive to ---- be thinking about or aware of ( something ); be keen or sensible to

I ski for the excitement, but I‘m also always alive to the risks.

He had to leave Scotland ---- His first wife was seriously ill and the doctor advised her to move south where the climate might suit her better. So he went to London with her.

scholarship ---- serious detailed study

Her recent book on Chinese verbs is a work of great scholarship.

Recent historical scholarship has contradicted many commonly held ideas about the Roman invention.

indispensable ---- too important not to have; necessary

First published in 1927, the charts remain an indispensable resource for researchers.

She is good but not indispensable (for the team) – no player is.

Other remarkable philologists of his day---- Henry Sweet, Fredrick J. Furnivall, and some others

dedicate ( oneself to ) ---- give completely ( one‘s energy, time etc. )

He has dedicated his life to scientific research.

The new President said she would dedicate herself to protecting the rights of the old.

illustrative ---- showing as examples or explanations

Falling house prices are illustrative of (are examples that show) the crisis facing the construction industry.

cull ---- gather together for being chosen

Cull important facts from the mass of evidence

150 musicians, singers, dancers and actors culled from all over the country

winnow ---- reduce ( a large number of people or things ) to a much smaller number by judging their quality

W e‘ve winnowed down the bunch of people that we originally saw and come up with a short-list of eight.

“ Scriptorium ” ---- An iron shed which Murray set up in the garden of his house. The shed was

lined with pigeonholes for word-slips.

shape ---- cause ( a thing, an activity, etc. ) to develop in a particular way

It was the Greeks who shaped the thinking of Western man.

… and did every other kind of work that could make the dictionary as good as humanly possible ---- and made every effort to ensure the perfection of the dictionary – as far as human capacity was concerned

He beavered---- Beavers are supposed to be very hard-working, hence the expressions ―an eager beaver ‖ and ― to work like a beaver ‖. The word is used here as a verb, meaning ―work hard ‖.

He badgered---- The badger is a kind of burrowing animal. ―He badgered ‖ means he went deeply into his subject.

chase wild geese ---- A wild-goose chase is an attempt to catch or find something one cannot possibly obtain ( esp. because it does not exist or is not there ): The false clue sent us north on a wild-goose chase, while the criminals escaped southwards.[ From a kind of 16C horse race in which each horse had to follow exactly the erratic course of the leader, forming string like that of geese in flight. ]

Robert Louis Stevenson ---- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-94, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist. His first books, An Inland Voyage( 1878 ) and Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879 ), were accounts of his wanderings on the Continent. In 1880 he went to the US, where he married Frances Osbourne. Four plays written with W.E. HENLEY had little success, but the adventure novel Treasure Island (1883 ) and A Child’s Garden of Verses ( 1885 ) were very popular. In 1886 came two of his best-known works, Kidnapped, an adventure tale set in Scotland, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a science fiction thriller with moral overtones. The Mster of Ballantrae( 1889 ) was begun at Saranac Lake, N.Y., where Stevenson, a tuberculosis sufferer, had gone in search of a congenial climate. In 1889 he settled in Samoa, where he wrote three novels with Lloyd Osbourne, his stepson. He died there, leaving Weir of Hermiston ( 1896 ) and St. Ives ( 1897 ) unfinished.

James Russell Lowell ---- Lowell, James Russell, 1819-91, American man of letters; b. Cambridge, Mass. His poetry ranges from the didactic –The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848) -- to the satiric –The Bigelow Papers (1848; 2d series, 1867) – to the critical –A Fable for Critics (1848).

A professor of modern languages at Harvard (1855-76), he was also the editor of the Atlantic Monthly (1857-61) and the North American Review (1864-72). He later turned to scholarship and criticism, and his essays were collected in Fireside Travels (1864), Among My Books (1870; 2d series, 1876), and My Study Windows (1871). As U.S. minister to London (1877), Lowell did much to increase European respect for American letters and institutions, and his speeches in England, published as Democracy and Other Addresses (1887), are among his best work.

apt ---- suitable or right for a particular situation

Chris produced an apt comment which summed up how we all felt.

take pride in ( something or someone ) ---- feel very pleased about ( it or them )

If you don‘t take professional pride in your work, you‘re probably in the wrong job.

( Be proud of is to feel satisfaction and pleasure because of something which has been done or owned: He’s very proud of his daughter’s achievements. She says she is a feminist and proud of it. )

at your will ---- at your disposal; as you like

echo ---- one who imitates another, as in opinions, speech, or dress

irrational quantity ---- irrational number [ noun, Mathematics ] any real number that cannot be expressed as an integer or as a ratio between two integers.

An Eminent Victorian ---- Queen Victorian reigned over England from 1837 to 1901. This period is often called the Victorian Age, and an important person of the period an eminent Victorian. Here the two words Eminent Victorian are capitalized. Apparently the writer is referring to Eminent Victorians, a collection of biographies written by Lytton Strachey.

sneer ( at )---- express or show in one‘s facial expression a very strong lack of respect ( for someone or something they consider to be of little value or interest ), esp. in a way that is unkind and rude

You may sneer, but a lot of people like my way of doing things.

They‘ll probably sneer at my new shoes because they are not leather.

thrill ---- feel extremely excited, usually because of something pleasant

Just standing beside her thrilled him.

He thrilled ( = reacted with pleasure ) to her voice.

contemplate ---- spend time considering ( a possible future action ), or to consider ( one particular thing ) for a long time in a serious and quiet way

I‘m contemplating goi ng abroad for some time.

I‘m contemplating a change of job.

skimp---- use less time, money, material, etc. than one really needs ( for doing something properly, so that the result is unsatisfactory )

Never skimp on your warm-up exercises.

Many old people skimp ( on ) their food and heating in order to meet their bills.

( self- ) abnegation ---- allowing oneself to have ( something which gives one pleasure ) or to give it up

He praised the minister‘s ? enthusiasm, competence and abnegation ‘

( = not giving importance to himself or his desires or needs ).

attainable ---- reachable; achievable

We must ensure that we do not set ourselves goals that are not attainable.

arduous ---- difficult, tiring and needing a lot of effort

An arduous climb/task/journey

in that ---- because; from the fact that

I prefer his plan to yours in that I think it‘s more practical.

He speaks poor Chinese in that he thinks has been abroad for two years.

Murray … felt within the present a profound community … ---- He felt that linguistically or culturally there was something profound which the present had in common with both the past and the future.

community---- friendship that is created and maintained between people or groups who are different in some ways ( association )

They are anxious to strengthen this sense of community.

( Community service is work that people do to help other people without payment, and which young criminals whose crime was not serious enough for them to be put in prison are sometimes ordered to do. Community spirit is friendliness and understanding between local people: The presence of so many outsiders has ruined the community spirit. )

from which it inherited its whole language of thinking, feeling and pledging---- The present inherited from the past the entire language expressive of man‘s thinking, feeling and undertaking.

that future which will inherit ---- That future ( repeated for the sake of emphasis ) which will inherit from the present.

appeal ---- make a serious or formal request, esp. to the public, for money or help

They‘re appealing for clothes and blankets to send off to the earthquake victims.

The police are appealing to the public for any information about the missing girl. credit ---- praise, approval or honor

He got no credit for solving the problem.

Her boss took credit for it/took all the credit instead.

The use of Ms for Miss or Mrs. has rapidly gained credit in recent years.

Translation

From ? He took pride in what he was doing,… ‘ to ? weep not for me, weep for yourselves and your children.‘

他以自己的工作为荣，却从不自傲。他不愿别人为他作传：“我不算什么――如果你们对字典有什么要写的，那就请便――不过就将我写成一段神话，一个回声，或一个无理量，或者干脆别提我。”然而他是不能被遗忘的，对这位我们所了解的维多利亚时代的杰出人物决不可轻视。他一生的平凡与尊严已为他作了传，如果被其震憾，便太离奇；如果不为所动，那又太迟钝了。当他鉴于连续不断的压力要求他简化工作而考虑辞职时，他这样说：“这项工作比我伟大，比其他任何编写者都伟大。”只有一个崇高的人才会这样说，才会以这份真诚与无私继续道：“我决不会放弃它，但同时，我也决不会妨碍任何人更好更快地完成这部字典。

尽管这种生活十分艰苦伤神，但并不残酷。一个人如此透彻地了解自己，明白自己能做什么，并无可非议地感到满足，这样的生活决不会残酷。默里，如同他的朋友们和同事们，认为当今不仅和过去有着深刻紧密的联系（从过去我们继承了整个思维、感觉和誓约语言），而且和未来同样不可分离，未来将继承当今的一切。他们劳作，是为了他们的后代，还有后代的后代，他们一直这么说。现在是默里后代的后代中的一个写了他的生平传记。正是他，在诚聘自愿者时说：“如果你们对参加我的工作不感兴趣，并不想由此得到公众的赞誉，我便不需要你们，别为我难过，为你们自己和你们的后代难过吧。”

Unit Two Nine Years for A and B

Key to Exercise II

1.impart

2.drudgery

3.pertinacity

4.vista

5.magnitude

6.slippery

7.converged

8.faltered

9.withhold 10.indispensable 11.culled 12.winnowing

13.apt 14.skimped 15.enterprise

Key to Exercise III

1.principally

2.except

3.to

4.and

5.authority

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7.what

8.say

9.once 10.over

11.offered 12.dictionary 13.for 14.brought 15.way

16.one‘s17.the 18.anyone 19.with 20.eccentric 21.definitions 22.only 23.first-hand 24.not 25.simply

26.task 27.vast 28.literature 29.cover 30.copy

31.word 32.occurrence 33.ordinary 34.each 35.context 36.itself 37.writing 38.bound 39.such 40.editing

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61.not 62.about 63. a 64.of 65.meant

66.past 67. a 68.example 69.in 70.we

71.word 72.but 73.from 74.of 75.audible 76.regard 77.is 78.of 79.else 80.speak

81.by 82.the 83.it 84.new https://www.wendangku.net/doc/f415457768.html,

86.words 87.have 88.today

Key to Exercise IV

The meaning or meanings of a word are determined by

usage. If we want to know what a word means, we must

find ∧by studying concrete cases in which the word is actually used by the speakers and writers.

The objectively scientific investigator of the

meaning of a word must, for practice, depend chiefly

on written material alone. One‘s memory of past conversations is notoriously reliable, and the

practical difficulties involved in t aking conver- 1.out

2.the

3.objective

4.in

5.alone

6.unreliable

7.√

sations∧verbatim make it needful to fall back on printed matters as the chief source for the concrete

cases which must be studied. But luckily there is available for study a vast mass amount of printed material, and these material yields an abundance

of concrete cases in which the word under the study occurs. Indeed, a word in a general use occurs in

print so often that the investigator∧overwhelmed by

the abundance of his material, unless he limits∧to

a selection: he can study only a smaller proportion

of the total number of the occurrences of the word

over investigation. Thus, the word mahogany must

∧appeared in print several million times during the present century alone, and no investigator or no

group of investigators could find the time or the

money need to study all these occurrences of the

word. This difficulty is a familiar one to scientific research. The method under investigation used

in such cases is that of sampling in random. One collects ∧many concrete cases as one can handle,

and then proceeds to s tudy the cases that will have

been collected, make the assumption that the cases collected are representative for the whole body of pertinent material.8.down

9.matter

10.But

11.amount

12.this

13.the

14.a

15.is

16.himself

17.small

18.the

19.under

20.have

21.no

22.√

23.needed

24.in

25.of

26.at

27.as

28.will

29.making

30.of

Key to Exercise V (for reference only)

1.As soon as he arrived in Bangkok, the premier plunged into a period of intense diplomacy.

2. A typhoon is drawing near. We will suffer loss if we don't get a move on.

3.Politicians are usually alive to the needs and wishes of their constituents during an election

year.

4.If you are not going to help, at least don't get in the way.

5.Although the dividends are the same, this is a better investment in that it is quite safe.

6.She sewed beautifully and took pride in her work.

7.You are chasing wild geese; the men you are looking for have long since left Guangzhou.

8.The way Mr. Wu receives visitors with complaints makes for a good story.

9.The charge against this man goes for anyone who trespasses on my land.

10.They readily grasped at our proposal so as to extricate themselves from the dilemma.

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