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The OED 's second edition , however , cites " fukkit " in 1503 , but the earliest current spelling appears as " Bischops ... may f * * * thair fill and be vnmaryit " from poet Sir David Lyndesay in 1535 .

然而，牛津英语词典第二版在1503年引用了“fukkit”。但是，这个词的拼写最早出现在1535年，诗人SirDavidLyndesay写道：“Bischops…mayf***thairfillandbevnmaryit.”

The OED is the definitive work on the history and usage of English .

牛津词典是英文历史及用法的权威著作。

The OED has 33 different numbered definitions for set .

在OED里“set”共33种定义。

Guangzhou OED Technologies in partnership with a company in Chongqing has developed the world 's first graphene electronic paper .

广州奥翼电子科技公司与重庆某公司合作研发出了世界首款石墨烯电子纸。

Working closely with the government and local people , OED was able to learn about local life and needs , said Frank .

Frank表示，通过与当地政府及当地居民的合作努力，OED公司能够了解当地生活所需。

Ingram says OED also undertakes field inspections on25 % 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。

But it has been African-American slang since at least the 1960s , OED researchers found .

而词典的研究人员发现，至少在20世纪60年代，这个词就在非洲裔美国人当中作为俚语使用。

London smoke The OED observes , A fancy name for a dull shade of grey .

伦敦烟灰色《牛津词典》注意到：阴暗灰色阴影的一个很潮的名字。

In the spirit of the OED , we would agree that an enterprise was one or more individuals with a common set of goals .

根据《牛津英语大辞典》中的定义，企业是一个人或者是具有共同目标的多个人。

If only one in 100 of those pages had an un-dictionaried word on it , it would be an entire other OED .

只要每100页报纸有一个没有收录的单词，那就相当于一整本OED（牛津英语字典）了，

One can easily imagine a Japanese surfer keeping the OED window permanently open to help him navigate an alien language .

很容易想象，某个日本冲浪者得一直开着《牛津英语词典》的窗口才能在这门外语里航行。

Cluster audit : OED audit of several operations together in one audit in order to analyze critical issues in a wider sector or country context .

归并审计：世界银行业务评价局把几个项目放在一起进行审计，目的是在较广泛的部门或国家范围内分析关键性的问题。

OED 's next step is to seek out and work with manufacturers in China to produce the SolSource , said Frank .

Frank表示，OED公司下一步计划是要力求和中国制造商合作生产SolSource产品。

Phat ," for example , makes its debut in the OED today as a slang term meaning cool . "

“以”“Phat”“为例，”“Phat”“直到今天才被《牛津英文词典》作为一个俚语收录进来，意思是”“很酷”“。”

This is the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) in electronic form , on a CD-ROM disk 15 centimetres wide .

这就是在一张15厘米宽的只读光盘上的电子版牛津词典。

Ingram says the OED staff discuss project ratings with operational staff when there are differences , but have the final judgment on ratings .

Ingram说，在出现分歧时，业务评价局的人员会与贷款业务人员就项目评级进行讨论，但业务评价局人员对评级有最终判断权。

The application of computer technology transforms the OED from a source of information to a source of pleasure and turns research tasks into a matter of minutes instead of months .

计算机技术的应用也使牛津词典从资料库变成娱乐源，把长达数月的检索任务缩短为几分钟。

As it turns out , the OED gives EL James a run for the money , offering up more than 80 different synonyms for grey .

事实证明，《牛津词典》给予EL詹姆斯发达的资本提供了80多个灰的同义词。

Over the years , it came to mean something quite different : " a short , sharp cry , especially of pain or alarm " as the concise OED puts it .

经过多年演变，它的意思逐渐演变，如今已经变得迥然不同：按照《简明牛津英语词典》（ConciseOED）的释义，它表示“短促、尖利的叫声，尤其是由于疼痛或受惊所致”。

The OED explained the decision extensively in an online statement and pointed out many of these noteworthy initialisms * are strongly associated with the language of electronic communications .

牛津英语词典在一份网上声明中详尽地解释了这一决定，并且指出这些引人注意的缩写与网络沟通语言有着密不可分的联系。

And he says OED is now carrying out impact reviews of projects , with a review of education projects in Ghana recently completed and work underway on health projects in Bangladesh .

他说，业务评价局目前正在对项目进行影响考察，对加纳的教育项目考察最近刚结束，目前正在对孟加拉的卫生项目进行考察。

When the OED was first released in electronic form on the CD-ROM disk , author Anthony Burgess called the electronic big oxford " one of the major technological events of the century " .

当牛津词典首次以光盘电子版发行时，作家安东尼伯吉斯把电子版大牛津词典称为“本世纪科技重大事件之一”。

The OED has been available on the internet for the past ten years and receives two million hits a month from subscribers who pay ￡ 205 a year , plus VAT , to access it .

过去10年人们已经能够在网上读到《牛津英语大词典》，该词典每个月用户点击量达两百万次，订阅费用为每年205英镑（含增值税）。

That the word acquired a new meaning is attributed to the fact that commenting and editing on Internet Web sites became faster , the OED 's principal editor of new words , Graeme Diamond said .

据《牛津英语大词典》新词主编格莱姆·戴蒙得介绍，的这个新含义主要是源于在互联网上进行评论和编辑的速度越来越快这一事实。

This breaks at least one OED rule , namely that a new word needs to be current for ten years before consideration for inclusion , said the OED 's chief editor John Simpson in a statement .

《牛津英文词典》主编约翰-辛普森在声明中表示，这至少打破了《牛津英语词典》的一个老规矩，就是一个新词从出现到考虑是否要被收入词典，需要十年时间。

At $ U51200 ( 9960 Renminbi ), the OED / CD is incomparably better value than the books , but it is still out of the reach of most casual readers .

1200美元的光盘版牛津词典比书本更值，但仍让普通读者可望而不可及。

It was added to the OED in less than half the usual time , appearing in 2002 as " a person who lacks a particular skill or skills , or who is regarded as inferior in some way . "

“麻瓜”诞生后还不到五年，就被收入牛津英语词典，2002年这个词在词典中的意思是“一个没有特殊技能的人，或在某些方面弱于他人的人”。

The OED explains that shorthands such as LOL and OMG have gone beyond just saving space and acquired nuanced meanings of their own , with a bit more than simple abbreviation going on .

牛津英语词典解释说诸如LOL或者OMG之类的缩写，它们的作用已经远远超过了节省空间，而且它们的意思已经有异于它们的原型，是比单纯的缩略语更多一些些。

In this instance , listed alongside cheese , fish , and butter , it is clear that the egg is ( as the OED definition phrases it ) an egg of a domestic fowl as an article of food .

该句中egg与奶酪、鱼和黄油放在一起显然说明了egg（正如牛津英语词典里解释的那样）是指用来作为事物的家禽的蛋。

It is also worth noting that neither chicken nor egg have yet been revised in the ongoing creation of the third edition of the OED . Its possible that this question will be resolved when the entries are updated , but for now we cant be certain .

因此在正在编撰的第三版的牛津英语词典中也没有必要对chicken和egg的含义进行修订。也许等到词典词目得到更新后这一问题会得到解决吧，但至少现在我们还不能确定。