According to Webster's New World Dictionary and A Dictionary of Literary Terms, a figure of comparison is a figure of speech in which one thing is described in terms of another because of the likeness between the two compared things.

America's first dictionary--Noah Webster's A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language--was published 200 years ago and also introduced a crop of fresh words that have now become familiar.

美国第一部词典--诺亚·韦伯斯特先生的《简明英语词典》于200年前出版，当时收入其中的一批新词如今已为大家十分熟悉了。

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This article offers a brief introduction to Webster's New World Dictionary ( the third edition), a new member in the Webster's family.

韦氏家族的新成员《韦氏新世界美语词典》（第三版）是一部颇具特色的中型词典。

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Webster's New World Dictionary defines the work@ junk@ as something that is useless or worthless.

《韦氏新世界字典》定义junk这个词为无用或无价值的东西。

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Very soon he came back, holding the Webster's Collegiate Dictionary in his hand.

不久，他捧出那本《韦氏大学词典》回来了。

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There is no single definition of disease but Webster's dictionary defines it as' An alteration of the state of the body or some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions and causing or threatening pain and weakness;

疾病的定义并不是单一的，其中《韦氏词典》是这样解释的：一种身体和某些器官的变化；有碍于身体重要功能的发挥；导致疼痛、虚弱；

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Webster's dictionary, now in its 11th edition, adopted the Americanised spellings familiar today-er instead of re in theatre, dropping the u from colour, and losing the double l from words such as traveller.

《韦氏词典》现在已经是第11版了，它采用我们现在熟悉的美式拼写——theatre中的re变为er，去掉colour中的u，把一些单词中的两个l如traveller变为一个l。

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I never knew about my mother's first husband until I was playing Scrabble one day when I was 10 or 11 and opened her weather-beaten copy of Webster's Dictionary to look up a word.

在我10岁还是11岁之前，我对我母亲的第一任丈夫毫无所知。直到有一天我在玩猜字游戏时，为了查找单词，我翻开了她那本饱经风霜的韦伯词典。

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Webster's dictionary defines morality as ethics, upright conduct, conduct or affitude judged from the moral standpoint.

韦氏词典将道德定义为伦理规范、正直的操守、从道德角度判断的操守或态度。

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But most of all... Have fun, Lionel. To ever be in webster's dictionary

不过最重要的是好好享受莱奈尔在韦氏词典里

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Merriam-Webster, being a dictionary maker, picked a word that many people looked up on its website, and so went with "pragmatic" instead of "occupy".

作为辞典出版社，梅里亚姆-韦伯斯特公司挑选了一个许多人在其网站上查阅的词汇，于是“务实”一词取代了“占领”。

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Some users compare the feeling to a phantom limb, which Merriam-Webster's medical dictionary defines as "an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated."

有些手机使用者认为这种错觉比较像医学上所说的“幻肢痛”，韦氏字典解释说这是一种“经常感到已经被切除的肢体还存在并伴有疼痛的错觉。”

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Some users compare the feeling to a phantom limb, which Merriam-Webster's medical dictionary defines as" an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated

.“有些手机使用者认为这种错觉比较像医学上所说的“幻肢痛”，韦氏字典解释说这是一种“经常感到已经被切除的肢体还存在并伴有疼痛的错觉。”

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Or as Merriam-Webster, the dictionary, notes, etiquette is the conduct or procedure required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be observed in social or official life.

或者，根据《韦氏词典》（Merriam-Webster）的注解，礼仪是良好教养所要求或权威机构所规定的，在社会或正式场合所必须遵守的行为或程序。

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In fact, Merriam-Webster's dictionary offers "egocentric,""narcissistic," and "selfish" as synonyms.

韦氏词典给这个词的同义词是以自我为中心的、自恋的、自私的。

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Happiness, as the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it, is "a state of well-being and contentment." Sure, that's one way to put it. But what does it really mean to feel on top of the world or entirely at peace with oneself? Do you feel immersed in joy? On cloud nine?

幸福，正如《韦氏大字典》的定义：“一种健康满足的状态“。当然，这是表述幸福的一种方法。但感觉到欣喜若狂或完全心如止水到底是什么意思？你觉得沉浸在快乐中吗？处在九霄云上呢？

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In2003, editors at the Merriam-Webster dictionary declined to remove or change their definition of "McJob" after McDonald's balked at its inclusion in the book's11th edition.

2003年，由于麦当劳公司拒绝将McJob一词收入韦氏大字典第11版中，因此字典的编辑拒绝删除或修改这个词的定义。

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Happiness, as the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it, is a state of well-being and contentment.

幸福，正如《韦氏大字典》的定义：一种健康满足的状态。

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The Merriam-Webster dictionary is working on a revision to its definition of the word racism.

韦氏词典正在订正“种族主义”一词的定义。

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Merriam-Webster Dictionary says nitty-gritty was first used in 1956.

韦氏词典表示，nitty-gritty第一次出现是在1956年。

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Teacher told us to write an essay on "The Result of Laziness," and I turned in a blank sheet of paper.

老师叫我们写一篇题为“懒惰的结果”的作文，我交了一张白卷。

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