You may think that English dictionaries have been sued for many, many centuries.In fsct,an English dicionary you use today wasn't made until the Qing Dynasty(清朝).Three men did most of the important early work on dictionaries.They spent nearly all their lives trying to collect words for their dictionaries.For them,it was a wonderful journey.The largest dictionary in the world is Oxford English.The idea for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857.Twenty-two years later,Oxford University asked james Murray to be the editor(編造者)of its new dictionary.
滿意答案好評率：73% 妳也許認為英文字典已經存在許多個個世紀之久。事實上，現在常用的英文字典直到清朝時期才出現。在早起的字典編制過程中，有三個人的工作十分重要。他們幾乎用盡壹生的時間去收集整理用於字典的詞匯。對於他們來說，那是漫長而神奇的旅程。世界上最大的英文字典是牛津字典。編撰這部字典的設想是在1857年英國的壹次會議提出的。二十二年之後，牛津大學請到James Murray作為這部新字典的編撰者。