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The Oxford English Dictionary, however, disputes this etymology and claims that the origin of pot is unknown.

在牛津英语词典然而，这个词源争端和索赔的原产地一锅不明。

Sixty-nine years ago today, a ghost word was outed from its hiding place on page 771 of Webster's New International Dictionary, where it had spent five comfortable years. Dord started life on a slip of paper prepared by the lexicon's chemistry editor, who noted that "D or d" was an abbreviation for density. A serendipitous misinterpretation saw the entry being read as a single word, dord, and it was accordingly registered and printed up as a noun with the meaning "density." No proofreader caught the error, but five years later an editor noticed the word had no etymology and began the investigation that led to the word's being banished.

六十九年前的今天，一个谜一样的词被世人发现，这个词在韦伯斯特新国际字典的771页整整藏了5年Dord一词因为一张小纸片而开始了它的生涯，这张小纸片是由lexicon的化学主编准备的，他标注出了"D or d"是密度的缩写这条记录很偶然的被认为是一个完整的单词，dord之后它被作为一个名词收入词典并印刷出来，意思是"密度"所有的校对人员都没有发现这个错误，但是五年后，一名编辑注意到这个词没有词源，然后他开始溯源并最终将这个词从词典中去除

Another word posh was 19th- and early 20th-century British slang for "money," specifically "a halfpenny, cash of small value."

牛津英语词典增补本也许为 posh找到了一个或多个可能的词源。

2 They are used in some contexts to convey special kinds of information, especially when round brackets are also used for other purposes: for example, in this dictionary they are used to give the etymologies at the end of entries.

方括号在某些语境中用以传达特殊信息，尤其当圆括号同时也用于其他目的时。例如在本词典中，方括号用以给出词条之后的词源信息。

It is not possible in a small dictionary to treat this kind of vocabulary in any detail, but its influence can be seen in the origins of words that have achieved a more general currency, for example boss-eyed (from a dialect word boss meaning 'miss', 'bungle'), fad, scrounge (from a dialect scrunge meaning 'steal') and shoddy.

用一本小词典来详解这类方言词汇是不可能的，但是从已成为较为通用的词语的词源中，方言的影响可见一斑，如boss-eyed (来自方言词boss，意为&miss&、&bungle&)、fad、scrounge (来自方言词scrunge，意为&steal&)和shoddy。

This dictionary does not give etymologies.

这部词典不介绍词源。

Intrapreneur and its spinoffs are of particular interest to etymologists and lexicographers because they illustrate the constant changes inherent in a living language.

词源学家以及词典编纂者对intrpreneur 以及它的派生词产生了独特的兴趣，因为它们说明现用语言所固有的持续不断的变化

Lexicographers make the distinction between homonyms and polysemes based on the intuition of native speakers as well as the etymology or history of words.

词典编纂区分同音和polysemes基于直觉的母语，以及词源或历史的话。

However, as the name（read－only memory）implies, CD disks cannot be written onorchanged in any way.

然而，正如其名字所指出的那样，CD盘不能写，也不能用任何方式改变其内容。

Galvanizes steel pallet is mainly export which suits standard packing of European Union, the North America. galvanizes steel pallet is suitable to heavy rack. Pallet surface can design plate type, corrugated and the gap form, satisfies the different requirements.

镀锌钢托盘多用于出口，替代木托盘，免薰蒸，符合欧盟、北美各国对出口货物包装材料的法令要求；喷涂钢托盘适用于重载上货架之用，托盘表面根据需要制作成平板状、波纹状及间隔形式，满足不同的使用要求。