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发帖数: 141625 | 1 知道复旦大学外文系教授、《新英汉词典》的主编葛传槼的人可能不多，知道他的学生
、《英汉大词典》的主编陆谷孙的人可能多一点。他俩的英语都地道得看不出一点外国
人的痕迹。说葛传槼最牛，那是《King's English》字典主编H.W. Fowler在1933年说
的，当时陆谷孙尚未出生。葛传槼给Fowler写信，挑出他字典里的几十处错误，Fowler
回信称赞：
… your letter is in faultless English, and, long as it is, nowhere betrays,
as nearly all foreigners’ letters do by some trifling lapse in idiom, that
its writer is not an Englishman. I receive many letters in English from
foreigners, but do not remember ever having had occasion to say this before.
我在《万象》上看到一篇写葛传槼的文章 |
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