这篇论文出之漫谈方式,提出的却是词典学中的一个重要的问题:词典怎样对待活语言。作者考察了美英的一些著名词典,从词典的模式固定不变说起,涉猎收词、释义、义项、例句等等问题,从而多方面地揭示词典编纂上的保守性,表现出一种要求创新的进取精神和对确立并发展词典编纂理论的渴望。文章不是“中药铺”,说的又正是“洋”话,然而值得一读,因为其中是颇有引发我们辞书工作者思考的问题的。编者 The essay’s talkative approach suggests one important question in lexics: how dictionaries treat living languages. The author examines some well-known dictionaries of the United States and Britain, from the fixed model of the dictionary, insisted on collecting words, paraphrase, meaning items, example sentences and so on, thus revealing the conservation of the dictionary in many aspects, showing a request for innovation The enterprising spirit and the desire to establish and develop the theory of dictionary compilation. The article is not a “traditional Chinese medicine shop,” and it is exactly the word “foreign”. However, it is worth reading because it is quite a question that has caused our dilettors to think. editor