BBC初级口语:Historical Thesaurus 巨型历代同义词词典
Background: Enormous, capacious, skelping 还有 vast – 这些词语仅仅是单词 large 在即将发行的，迄今最大的同义词词典里289个同意词语里的几个代表。Thesaurus 意思是同义词词典。The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary 里共有词语60万条历代词语，这些词语是按照日期和意思来分类的。经过40余年的整理编写后，这本巨型同义词词典即将问世。
【文本】
Historical Thesaurus to be Published
It’s the world's first historical thesaurus, grouping words by meaning and by date. And it survived fire, lack of funds and the death of some of its founders.
Tomorrow the work will finally be unveiled to academics prior to its publication in October.
Professor Christian Kay of the University of Glasgow began work on the project as a 28-year-old research assistant. She's now 69 and thinks it will be invaluable to scholars not just of linguistics but of cultural and social history.
Professor Kay:
"You know, if you're interested in something like clothes, it's very interesting to see what people have been wearing for the last 1,300 years. So I was looking at a whole list of words to do with trousers and there were words that would never have occurred to you probably that these words meant trousers."
That's where a thesaurus beats a dictionary, she says. But it's much harder work to compile. In the early days they simply wrote the words on slips of paper and grouped them in different ways.
Professor Kay remembers the dreadful day when the building caught fire and they nearly lost ten years' work. Fortunately the slips were in metal filing cabinets and survived.
Now all that work, and all those words, can be shared with the world.
【口语突破】
funds 资金
founders 创建人
unveiled 揭开面纱
academics 学者
prior to 在…之前
invaluable 无价的
linguistics 语言学
compile 编纂
slips of 纸张
in metal filing cabinets 在金属文件柜里
重点单词查看全部解释social['səuʃəl]
想一想再看
adj. 社会的，社交的
n. 社交聚会
想一想再看
n. 裤子
compile[kəm'pail]想一想再看
vt. 编译，编纂
联想记忆X单词compile联想记忆：com共同，pile堆－堆到一起－汇编 filing['failiŋ]
想一想再看
n. 锉(文件的整理汇集)
enormous[i'nɔ:məs]想一想再看
adj. 巨大的，庞大的
联想记忆X单词enormous联想记忆：e出+norm=rule规则，规范+ous→出了正常状态→巨大的，过分的 funds
想一想再看
n. 基金；资金，现金（fund的复数） v. 提供资金
prior['praiə]想一想再看
adj. 优先的，更重要的，在前的
adv.
想一想再看
adj. 贵重的，有价值的
n. (pl.)贵
val强壮+uable→因为强壮，所以有价值→有价值的 invaluable[in'væljuəbl]
想一想再看
adj. 无价的
联想记忆X单词invaluable联想记忆：in不+val强壮+uable→不能估价的→无法估价的 vast[vɑ:st]
想一想再看
adj. 巨大的，广阔的
n. 浩瀚的太
【Exercises】
Questions:
1. When will the thesaurus be published?
2. How old is Professor Kay?
3. Does Professor Kay think the book will be valuable to scholars of linguistics?
4. How many years' work was lost in the fire?
重点单词查看全部解释social['səuʃəl]想一想再看
adj. 社会的，社交的
n. 社交聚会
想一想再看
n. 裤子
compile[kəm'pail]想一想再看
vt. 编译，编纂
联想记忆X单词compile联想记忆：com共同，pile堆－堆到一起－汇编 filing['failiŋ]
想一想再看
n. 锉(文件的整理汇集)
enormous[i'nɔ:məs]想一想再看
adj. 巨大的，庞大的
联想记忆X单词enormous联想记忆：e出+norm=rule规则，规范+ous→出了正常状态→巨大的，过分的 funds
想一想再看
n. 基金；资金，现金（fund的复数） v. 提供资金
prior['praiə]想一想再看
adj. 优先的，更重要的，在前的
adv.
想一想再看
adj. 贵重的，有价值的
n. (pl.)贵
val强壮+uable→因为强壮，所以有价值→有价值的 invaluable[in'væljuəbl]
想一想再看
adj. 无价的
联想记忆X单词invaluable联想记忆：in不+val强壮+uable→不能估价的→无法估价的 vast[vɑ:st]
想一想再看
adj. 巨大的，广阔的
n. 浩瀚的太
【Keys】
Answers
1. When will the thesaurus be published?
It will be published in October.
2. How old is Professor Kay?
She is 69.
3. Does Professor Kay think the book will be valuable to scholars of linguistics?
Yes, she thinks it will be invaluable. Invaluable means
4. How many years' work was lost in the fire?
They nearly lost ten years' work that day, but it survived because it was stored in metal filing cabinets.
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重点单词查看全部解释social['səuʃəl]想一想再看
adj. 社会的，社交的
n. 社交聚会
想一想再看
n. 裤子
compile[kəm'pail]想一想再看
vt. 编译，编纂
联想记忆X单词compile联想记忆：com共同，pile堆－堆到一起－汇编 filing['failiŋ]
想一想再看
n. 锉(文件的整理汇集)
enormous[i'nɔ:məs]想一想再看
adj. 巨大的，庞大的
联想记忆X单词enormous联想记忆：e出+norm=rule规则，规范+ous→出了正常状态→巨大的，过分的 funds
想一想再看
n. 基金；资金，现金（fund的复数） v. 提供资金
prior['praiə]想一想再看
adj. 优先的，更重要的，在前的
adv.
想一想再看
adj. 贵重的，有价值的
n. (pl.)贵
val强壮+uable→因为强壮，所以有价值→有价值的 invaluable[in'væljuəbl]
想一想再看
adj. 无价的
联想记忆X单词invaluable联想记忆：in不+val强壮+uable→不能估价的→无法估价的 vast[vɑ:st]
想一想再看
adj. 巨大的，广阔的
n. 浩瀚的太
