Surprising, colorful, and long-forgotten entries from the most famous dictionary in the history of the English language
Samuel Johnson's best-known work, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), is the most influential and idiosyncratic lexicon ever written and was used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, the Brontës and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. This anthology includes 4,000 of the most representative, entertaining, and historically fascinating entries, covering subjects from fashion to food, science to sex, and given in full with original spelling and examples of usage from Shakespeare to Milton.
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穷饿无聊看字典=。=||
评分选择读过有时候并不是真的读过,只是算自己买了多少本书????
评分‘I bought a dictionary for myself, I said. And it’s my resolution to study it every day.’
评分Johnson的解释很富文学性,但毕竟只是字典,整体性上的欠缺也是有的。
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