题目

英语翻译
　　“Look it up in the dictionary” is the usual comment when people are in
doubt about the meaning or spelling of a word.Dictionaries are considered the
final authority on these matters as well as on pronunciations and other facts
about a word.
　　Until a few hundred years ago,however,people could not “look it up”
because there were no English dictionaries.The ancient Greeks and Romans and
the scholars of the Middle Ages had made lists of Latin and Greek words.
71 (因为上下句为过去时,所以此处必填过去时,在F和G选项中选择.下句中出现了年代,所以此处选择有年代的选项.G.But it was not
until 1604 that a book of uncommon English words appeared.) The first great
English dictionary listing both common and uncommon words was written by Samuel
Johnson in 1755.
　　In America,the most famous name in dictionary writing is that of Noah
Webster.He stressed American rather than British ways of speaking.His great
dictionary,which first appeared in 1828,has been republished many times.

提问时间：2020-07-18

答案

当人们对单词的拼写或意思产生疑问时,查词典,是常用作注释的方法.解决这些问题和发音及其他关于单词的问题时,词典被认作是最权威的直到几百年前,因为没有任何字典,人们仍然不会查.古希腊和罗马人及中世纪的学者曾列...