You may think that English dictionaries have been sued for many, many centuries.妳可能認為英語詞典的存在已有若幹世紀了。In fsct,an English dicionary you use today wasn't made until the Qing Dynasty(清朝). 事實上，妳今天用的任何壹本詞典，都是到清朝才問世的。Three men did most of the important early work on dictionaries. 三位學者為後來許多詞典編纂做了大部分重要的早期工作。They spent nearly all their lives trying to collect words for their dictionaries.他們幾乎終其壹生為要編寫的詞典收集詞語。For them,it was a wonderful journey.那樣的工作對於他們而言是了不起的旅行。The largest dictionary in the world is Oxford English.世界上最大的詞典是牛津詞典。The idea for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857.編纂這本詞典的想法發端於1857年在英國召開的壹個重要會議。Twenty-two years later,Oxford University asked james Murray to be the editor(編造者)of its new dictionary.二十年以後，牛津大學請來 James Murray 擔任這本新詞典的編輯。