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of words by using literary quotations, usually from works by the playwright and poet William Shakespeare (1564— 1616) and the English poets John Milton(16081674)and John Dryden (16311700). ? 約翰遜的詞典是第一本引用文學(xué)作品來解釋詞意的,通常這些引語來自劇作家、詩人威廉 莎士比亞 (15641616),英國詩人約翰 米爾頓 (16081674)和約翰 德萊頓(16311700)的作品。 ? 6Samuel Johnson’s dictionary had many faults: it was oldfashioned,he gave no help with pronunciation and he used older spellings rather than the newer simplified spellings that most writers were using. ? 塞繆爾 約翰遜的詞典有很多瑕疵:守舊,對語音無所助益,采用的是舊式拼寫而不是大多數(shù)作家使用著的較新式的簡化拼寫。 ? three men, Richard Chenevix Trench,Herbert Coleridge and Frederick Furnivall, were all members of the London Philological Society and they were all unhappy with existing dicti