双语：《牛津英语词典》网络版流行 或将停印.doc

双语：《牛津英语词典》网络版流行 或将停印 2010年08月31日12:13中国日报我要评论(1) 字号：T|T The Oxford English Dictionary will never appear in print again, its owners have announced. It was first published 126 years ago and is respected the world over. But the Oxford English Dictionary will never appear in print again, its owners have announced. Instead, the 80?lexicographerswho have been working on the third edition for the past 21 years have been told the fruits of their labour will exist solely online. The OED has been available on the internet for the past ten years and receives two million hits a month from subscribers who pay ā205 a year, plus?VAT, to access it. Oxford University Press says the dominance of the internet means the latest update to the definitive record of the English language - currently 28 per cent complete - will never be published in print. The print dictionary market is just disappearing - it is?falling awayby tens of per cent a year, said Nigel Portwood, 44, chief executive of OUP. Our primary purpose - and this takes a bit of adjusting to - is not profit, it is thedisseminationof knowledge, he said. Print is still pretty important round here but, wherever possible, if there is an opportunity, we are moving out of it. The printed dictionary has a?shelf lifeof another 30 years, he predicts. The third edition is only expected to be completed by 2037. The OUP has already stopped producing illustrated reference books because of the growing popularity of the Wikipedia website. Erin McKean, co-founder and chief executive of Wordnik, an online dictionary, said: I want my young son to think of the print dictionary like an eight-track tape - a format that died because it was not useful enough. 《牛津英语(论坛)大词典》在126年前首次出版，如今在全世界范围内受到尊敬。 然而该词典的所有者宣布，该词典将不会再出纸质版本。 在过去21年间修订第三版的80位词典编纂者被告知他们的劳动成果将只存在于网上。 过去十年人们已经能够在网上读到《牛津英语大词典》，该词典每个月所用户点击量达两百万次，订阅费用为每年205英镑（含增值税）。 牛津大学出版社说，由于网络已经占据主导地位，必威体育精装版更新的英语词条（目前已完成了28%）将不会再出纸质版本。 牛津大学出版社的总裁——44岁的奈杰尔 波特伍德说：“纸质词典的市场正在消失，每年减少10%。” 他说：“我们的主要目的不是赚钱，而是传播知识，要