BBC初級口語:Historical Thesaurus 巨型歷代同義詞詞典
Background: Enormous, capacious, skelping 還有 vast – 這些詞語僅僅是單詞 large 在即將發行的，迄今最大的同義詞詞典裏289個同意詞語裏的幾個代表。Thesaurus 意思是同義詞詞典。The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary 裏共有詞語60萬條歷代詞語，這些詞語是按照日期和意思來分類的。經過40餘年的整理編寫後，這本巨型同義詞詞典即將問世。
【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.
【口語突破】
funds 資金
founders 創建人
unveiled 揭開面紗
academics 學者
prior to 在…之前
invaluable 無價的
linguistics 語言學
compile 編纂
slips of 紙張
in metal filing cabinets 在金屬文件櫃裏
重點單詞查看全部解釋social['səuʃəl]
想一想再看
adj. 社會的，社交的
n. 社交聚會
想一想再看
n. 褲子
compile[kəm'pail]想一想再看
vt. 編譯，編纂
聯想記憶X單詞compile聯想記憶：com共同，pile堆－堆到一起－彙編 filing['failiŋ]
想一想再看
n. 銼(文件的整理彙集)
enormous[i'nɔ:məs]想一想再看
adj. 巨大的，龐大的
聯想記憶X單詞enormous聯想記憶：e出+norm=rule規則，規範+ous→出了正常狀態→巨大的，過分的 funds
想一想再看
n. 基金；資金，現金（fund的複數） v. 提供資金
prior['praiə]想一想再看
adj. 優先的，更重要的，在前的
adv.
想一想再看
adj. 貴重的，有價值的
n. (pl.)貴
val強壯+uable→因爲強壯，所以有價值→有價值的 invaluable[in'væljuəbl]
想一想再看
adj. 無價的
聯想記憶X單詞invaluable聯想記憶：in不+val強壯+uable→不能估價的→無法估價的 vast[vɑ:st]
想一想再看
adj. 巨大的，廣闊的
n. 浩瀚的太
【Exercises】
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?
重點單詞查看全部解釋social['səuʃəl]想一想再看
adj. 社會的，社交的
n. 社交聚會
想一想再看
n. 褲子
compile[kəm'pail]想一想再看
vt. 編譯，編纂
聯想記憶X單詞compile聯想記憶：com共同，pile堆－堆到一起－彙編 filing['failiŋ]
想一想再看
n. 銼(文件的整理彙集)
enormous[i'nɔ:məs]想一想再看
adj. 巨大的，龐大的
聯想記憶X單詞enormous聯想記憶：e出+norm=rule規則，規範+ous→出了正常狀態→巨大的，過分的 funds
想一想再看
n. 基金；資金，現金（fund的複數） v. 提供資金
prior['praiə]想一想再看
adj. 優先的，更重要的，在前的
adv.
想一想再看
adj. 貴重的，有價值的
n. (pl.)貴
val強壯+uable→因爲強壯，所以有價值→有價值的 invaluable[in'væljuəbl]
想一想再看
adj. 無價的
聯想記憶X單詞invaluable聯想記憶：in不+val強壯+uable→不能估價的→無法估價的 vast[vɑ:st]
想一想再看
adj. 巨大的，廣闊的
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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重點單詞查看全部解釋social['səuʃəl]想一想再看
adj. 社會的，社交的
n. 社交聚會
想一想再看
n. 褲子
compile[kəm'pail]想一想再看
vt. 編譯，編纂
聯想記憶X單詞compile聯想記憶：com共同，pile堆－堆到一起－彙編 filing['failiŋ]
想一想再看
n. 銼(文件的整理彙集)
enormous[i'nɔ:məs]想一想再看
adj. 巨大的，龐大的
聯想記憶X單詞enormous聯想記憶：e出+norm=rule規則，規範+ous→出了正常狀態→巨大的，過分的 funds
想一想再看
n. 基金；資金，現金（fund的複數） v. 提供資金
prior['praiə]想一想再看
adj. 優先的，更重要的，在前的
adv.
想一想再看
adj. 貴重的，有價值的
n. (pl.)貴
val強壯+uable→因爲強壯，所以有價值→有價值的 invaluable[in'væljuəbl]
想一想再看
adj. 無價的
聯想記憶X單詞invaluable聯想記憶：in不+val強壯+uable→不能估價的→無法估價的 vast[vɑ:st]
想一想再看
adj. 巨大的，廣闊的
n. 浩瀚的太
