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1、《英汉大词典》英文代序（全文）“WhatIsOutofSightIsLostForever?”----InLieuofaPrefaceLuGusun IbeginbyquotingSamuelJohnson’sremarkwhenhecommentedonthewidespreadruralilliteracyinScotlandinhistime(Vincent,1989:48),suggestingthatthosewhoknewnothingofwrittenlanguageweredoomedtolive
2、onlyinthepresenttense.Withatwist—IhavechangedDrJohnson’sfullstoptoaquestionmark—theremarkisherebyquotedwithaviewtoshowingthatalthoughatradition,thatofSamuelJohnson’sincluded,isoften“outofsight”,itpercolatesdownandisnot“lostforever”.Timebeingacontinuumallvagar
3、iesoffashionnotwithstanding,welivetosomeextentintheshadowofwhatis“outofsight”.Inthefieldoflexicographywethereforewrite,usingadoubleentendre,inthepastaswellasthepresentandthefuturetenses.However,ifonecarestolookaheadacrossthelexicographiclandscape, whatcatches
4、theeye,Ipresume, isthefuturetensewritlarge. Livinginthecomputerage,whenweconsultadictionarymostofus“click,lookandlisten”.1True,thetrendunmistakablyandirreversiblymakesfordictionarieswhoseinformationistransmittedthroughsuchelectronicmediaascomputers,CD-ROMs,th
5、eInternet,orplug-inmemorychips.Agoodmanyofthemenableaspeedierlook-upofawealthofdataandaremuchuser-friendlierwithamultimediacombinationoftexts,graphics,images,audioclips,videoclips,andanimation,allowinggreateruserautonomyinvirtualspaceorevensolicitinguserparti
6、cipationinorinteractionwiththedictionarytextbycutting,copyingandpasting,indexing,bookmarking,hyperlinking,up-ordownloading,deleting,addingorfleshingoutentrieswithaclickofthemouseoraturnofthetrackballinrealtime.Thereareonline,user-writtendictionarieswithoutane
7、ditorialstaffsuchasWiktionarylaunchedbyWikipediain2002,billedasfutureoflexicography,eventhoughitiswidelyreviledasalexicographicrumpusandflop(Lepore,2006).NowonderwhentheSecondEditionofTheOxfordEnglishDictionarywaspublishedin1989inbothp-(ink-and-paper)ande-(CD
8、-ROM)forms,thesalesratioofp-toe-wasapproximately1:10(Mai,1994:123).Takingonestepfurtherfromthere,theOEDOnlinewhichwasmadeavailableinMarch2000,boastingsometwentysearchoptions,notonlyincorp
