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評分Richness and time make a perfect scholar.
評分被書評裏的“the linguistic detective story”騙去看的書……但其實沒那麼好,整個故事寫得相當忠實,應該確實做瞭很多功課,但隻能說很無趣,不理解為什麼最近炒得這麼熱,隻能說營銷手段比我想象得高端瞭……
評分被書評裏的“the linguistic detective story”騙去看的書……但其實沒那麼好,整個故事寫得相當忠實,應該確實做瞭很多功課,但隻能說很無趣,不理解為什麼最近炒得這麼熱,隻能說營銷手段比我想象得高端瞭……
西濛·溫切斯特(Simon Winchester)
英國著名作傢、記者。生於1944年,畢業於牛津大學地質係。曾任《衛報》及《星期日泰晤士報》海外特派員,並為《紐約時報》《國傢地理雜誌》及BBC等媒體撰稿,現居美國。
溫切斯特長於描述曆史事件,《教授與瘋子》《喀拉喀托火山》《改變世界的地圖》等小說多次登上《紐約時報》暢銷書榜單。溫切斯特憑藉在新聞及文學領域的貢獻,於2006年獲大英帝國勛章。
Mysterious (mistîe · ries), a. [f. L. mystérium Mysteryi + ous. Cf. F. mystérieux.]
1. Full of or fraught with mystery; wrapt in mystery; hidden from human knowledge or understanding; impossible or difficult to explain, solve, or discover; of obscure origin, nature, or purpose. </P>
It is known as one of the greatest literary achievements in the history of English letters. The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story--a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking.
Professor James Murray, an astonishingly learned former schoolmaster and bank clerk, was the distinguished editor of the OED project. Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon from New Haven, Connecticut, who had served in the Civil War, was one of thousands of contributors who submitted illustrative quotations of words to be used in the dictionary. But Minor was no ordinary contributor. He was remarkably prolific, sending thousands of neat, handwritten quotations from his home in the small village of Crowthorne, fifty miles from Oxford. On numerous occasions Murray invited Minor to visit Oxford and celebrate his work, but Murray's offer was regularly--and mysteriously--refused.
Thus the two men, for two decades, maintained a close relationship only through correspondence. Finally, in 1896, after Minor had sent nearly ten thousand definitions to the dictionary but had still never traveled from his home, a puzzled Murray set out to visit him. It was then that Murray finally learned the truth about Minor--that, in addition to being a masterful wordsmith, Minor was also a murderer, clinically insane--and locked up in Broadmoor, England's harshest asylum for criminal lunatics.
The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness and genius, and the incredible obsessions of two men at the heart of the Oxford English Dictionary and literary history. With riveting insight and detail, Simon Winchester crafts a fascinating glimpse into one man's tortured mind and his contribution to another man's magnificent dictionary.
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評分提到OED,你或许并不知道它是什么,但它的全称你一定不陌生——OED,Oxford English Dictionary,它就是大名鼎鼎的《牛津英语词典》。作为每天打卡背单词的单词狗,你一定想把它供起来好好膜拜一番,毕竟,OED可是英语单词的至高标准,是其之后各种辞书乃至百科全书的鼻祖。...
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