圖書標籤: English linguistics SimonWinchester 英國 lexicography 語言學/習 歷史 文藝
发表于2024-11-22
The Meaning of Everything pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary.
Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language--"so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfully unwieldy"--and pays homage to the great dictionary makers, from "the irredeemably famous" Samuel Johnson to the "short, pale, smug and boastful"
schoolmaster from New Hartford, Noah Webster. He then turns his unmatched talent for story-telling to the making of this most venerable of dictionaries. In this fast-paced narrative, the reader will discover lively portraits of such key figures as the brilliant but tubercular first editor Herbert
Coleridge (grandson of the poet), the colorful, boisterous Frederick Furnivall (who left the project in a shambles), and James Augustus Henry Murray, who spent a half-century bringing the project to fruition. Winchester lovingly describes the nuts-and-bolts of dictionary making--how unexpectedly
tricky the dictionary entry for marzipan was, or how fraternity turned out so much longer and monkey so much more ancient than anticipated--and how bondmaid was left out completely, its slips found lurking under a pile of books long after the B-volume had gone to press. We visit the ugly corrugated
iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium--the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it--and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W. C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and
ultimate redemption.
The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project--a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the
world's unrivalled uber-dictionary.
西濛•溫切斯特(Simon Winchester,中文名文思淼),英國著名作傢、記者。1944年生,1966年牛津大學地質係畢業後,擔任《衛報》(Guardian)及《星期日泰晤士報》(Sunday Times)的海外特派員。為《紐約時報》、《史密森學會月刊》(Smithsonian)、《觀察傢》(Spectator)、《國傢地理雜誌》、BBC等媒體撰稿。主要作品有:《OED的故事》(The Meaning of Everything)、《世界邊緣的裂縫》(A Crack in the Edge of the World)、《喀拉喀托火山爆發記》(Krakatoa)、《改變世界的地圖》(The Map That Changed the World),以及《世界中央的河流》(The River at the Center of the World)、《大英帝國邊境》(Outposts)等。目前最新作品是《熱愛中國的人:李約瑟傳》(The Man Who Loved China)。
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評分教授與瘋子
評分教授與瘋子
評分一鼓作氣又啃下一本,看各種八卦趣聞,中間還齣現瞭托爾金
評分教授與瘋子
我还没细读,但已经发现一些翻译的硬伤,例如: 第11页倒数第9行“......还有印刷工们、中学校长们、大学校长们......” 其实这里的印刷工们(英文原文是printers)应该是指印刷商们。 第12页第4行"金匠们“ (the Goldsmiths)实际上应该指the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths.
評分这本书的推荐似乎在于这本书的本身,而是关于OED,作为最牛的字典,相当佩服。 国内已经有人询价了,但是都没有说要买。买了,我先看!!!哈哈哈 看完了这本书!!! 觉得一本书给另一本书做介绍本来就是个很说不清楚的事情!然而对于我而言,OED的伟大和编撰人物的艰辛却...
評分 評分一开始光看简介的时候,我想一本有关英文词典编写的书和词典一样应该是很闷的吧。自打第一章读起,我却一发不可收拾,两三天内读完此书,这在我是比较少见的。我要说这本书的作者有什么地方令我十分佩服,首先是他完全颠覆了我那先入为主的浅薄观点。词典编写过程发生的事情和...
評分这本书的推荐似乎在于这本书的本身,而是关于OED,作为最牛的字典,相当佩服。 国内已经有人询价了,但是都没有说要买。买了,我先看!!!哈哈哈 看完了这本书!!! 觉得一本书给另一本书做介绍本来就是个很说不清楚的事情!然而对于我而言,OED的伟大和编撰人物的艰辛却...
The Meaning of Everything pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024