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C ? 13. At the railway station, a polished landau and a coachman were waiting, and with James Murray aboard, they clip— clopped back through the lanes of rural Berkshire. 在火車站,一輛擦得锃亮的四輪馬車和一名車夫等在那里,待詹姆斯 ? 8. Trench suggested writing a new dictionary based on contributions from a large number of volunteers. ?特倫奇建議編寫(xiě)一部基于大批志愿者投稿的新詞典。Samuel 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 He signed a contract in June 1746 but the dictionary did not appear until 1755. ? 1746年 6月他簽署了一份合同,但直到 1755年詞典才得以出版。 Samuel Johnson(17091784)was one of Britain’s greatest literary fig