Thee word "Google" has been part of the Merriam-Webster dictionary since 2006, which tells you just how vital the search engine has become.

2006年起，“google”一词就被收入《韦氏词典》，字典中说明了这个搜索引擎已经变得多么重要。

After the Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Webster believed that Americans should have their own dictionary, rather than rely on British dictionaries.

独立战争（1775-1783）后，韦伯斯特认为美国人应该有自己的词典，而不是依赖英国词典。

Webster spent 28 years on the project before completing the 70,000-word dictionary with his American-style spelling in 1828.

韦伯斯特在这个项目上花了28年，然后在1828年用他的美式拼写完成了这部有7万词的词典。

Fifty years later across the pond Noah Webster produced his first dictionary.

五十年后，诺亚·韦伯斯特在海洋之外的另一片大陆上编成了他的第一本词典。

The primary definition in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary says, "The discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation."

排在第一位的是韦氏(Merriam-Webster)网上词典 3中的解释，“一门关于判断什么是好什么是坏，以及道德义务和道德责任的学科”。

A quick look in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary provides four different definitions of virtualization's root word, virtual.

快速浏览Merriam - Webster在线词典中虚拟化词根virtual的4个不同定义。

Perhaps it's because even Webster's Dictionary defines a hobby as "a pursuit outside one's regular occupation" (Merriam-Webster Online).

可能是因为，即使在韦氏词典上，对业余爱好的定义也是“在正规工作之外的追求”。

The Merriam Webster Unabridged Dictionary is the only source that I found that points further back than Latin in its etymology.

在我所能找到的资料里，只有《未删节版韦氏词典》能指出该单词在拉丁语之前的词源。

Since by 1935 Noah Webster had been dead lo those 90 years we will turn our gaze instead to the New International Dictionary, Second Edition that was printed in his name in that year.

到1935年时，诺亚·韦伯斯特已经去世90年了，我们要把目光转而聚焦在那一年用他的名字来印制的第二版《新国际词典》中。

Perhaps it's becauseeven Webster's Dictionary defines a hobby as "a pursuit outside one'sregular occupation" (Merriam-Webster Online).

可能是因为，即使在韦氏词典上，对业余爱好的定义也是“在正规工作之外的追求”。

Even before Webster had started to compile his dictionary, words and expressions from the America had already infiltrated the British language, for example "canoe" and "hatchet".

甚至在他开始编纂字典之前，就有一些来自美国的单词和表达方法已经渗入了英国英语中，例如“独木舟”和“短柄小斧”。

While the New Oxford American Dictionary or Merriam Webster says Satan or the Devil, the OED says that Lucifer is a word misused to mean devil.

新牛津美语词典与韦氏大词典给出的解释都是撒旦或恶魔（Devil），而OED则写道，Lucifer这个词被“误用为”恶魔之意。

This is correct understanding: Oxford and Merriam-Webster dictionaries as well as English synonym Dictionary include 'governance' as a remote synonym to 'management'.

该理解没错：牛津字典和Merriam韦氏字典以及英语同义词字典都把“治理”放在“管理”的近义词中。

Let's begin by defining what I mean by master and masterpiece. The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary 1 has several definitions for master; in our discussion, all three of the definitions below apply.

让我们首先定义一下什么是大师和杰作。

If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?

如果是韦伯斯特写了第一本词典，那他是从哪找到词的？

At that time two big changes in English spelling happened: first Samuel Johnson wrote his dictionary and later Noah Webster wrote the American dictionary of the English Language.

当时，英语的拼写发生了两个很大的变化：先是塞缪尔·约翰逊编写了他的英语词典，后是诺亚·韦伯斯特出版了《美国英语词典》。

One big change in English usage happened when Noah Webster wrote the American dictionary of the English language, giving American English its own identity.

䒶英语用法发生了一次大变化，那就是在诺厄·韦伯斯特编撰的《美国英语词典》的那个时期，这本词典体现了美国英语的特色。

The term "fast food" was recognized in a dictionary by Merriam-Webster in 1951.

术语“快餐”是公认的一本字典的韦氏于1951年。

It's fitting, then, that "safe space" is among the 1,000 new additions Merriam-Webster made to its online dictionary today.

后来，韦氏词典就把“safe space”(安全空间)这个词收录到现今在线词典的1000个新增词条中，这也是十分恰当的。

Since Merriam-Webster first published its Collegiate Dictionary in 1898, at least 100,000 words have been added.

自从1898年《韦氏词典》初版以来，至少已经增加了十万个词语。