They have vast markets (90 percent of British homes apparently have a dictionary, which is more than have a Bible or a recipe book), and there is ample research to show lexicographers why people use their dictionaries

其市场广阔(百分之九十的英国家庭都备有一本英语词典,数量超过《圣经》或食谱),充分的研究向词典编纂者清楚地说明了人们为什么使用他们的词典。

The work of early lexicographers , of whom the most famous was Samuel Johnson, also led to greater standardisation in matters such as spelling

早期字典编纂者,其中最著名的是塞缪耳·约翰逊的工作,也导致了拼法等的进一步标准化。

||1:What words mean is generally determined another way: most linguists believe that they simply mean what people use them to mean.||2:As virtually all modern lexicographers acknowledge, dictionaries are there to register actual usage, not to tell the mass of people that they are deploying a word incorrectly.||3:If philosophers or activists want dictionaries to include a new meaning, they have to get people to use the word that way.

||1:单词的意思通常由另一种方式决定:大多数语言学家认为，单词的意思只是人们用它们来表达的意思。||2:几乎所有现代词典编纂者都承认，词典的存在是为了记录实际用法，而不是告诉大众他们错误地使用了某个词。||3:如果哲学家或积极分子想让词典囊括一个词新的意思，他们必须让人们这样使用这个词。

'You and I can be our own lexicographers now, ' says Barbara Wallraff, the longtime language columnist for The Atlantic magazine.

《大西洋月刊》（TheAtlantic）杂志资深语言专栏作家沃拉夫（BarbaraWallraff）说，你和我现在都可以成为自己的字典编纂者了。

Dictionaries are, after all, giant databases of words compiled by lexicographers who investigate word usages and meanings.

毕竟，字典是字典编纂者编写的有关词汇用法和意义的庞大的数据库。

Mr Han heads a team of 30 lexicographers on the 12th storey of an office block in central Seoul.

韩英彦手下有30名词典编撰工作人员，在首尔市中心一幢写字楼的12层办公。

During dictionary compilation taking full advantages of linguistic research achievement is modern lexicographers ' task.

将语言学研究成果运用于词典编纂是新时代词典人的重任。

The irony is that judges have vastly more power than lexicographers do to define words.

可笑的是，法官在解释词语定义上的权力比字典编纂者大得多。

If tens of millions of people are using a word over a period of years, lexicographers put it in the dictionary.

如果百万人中有十几个人用一个单词超过几年，那么辞典编撰者就会收录到辞典里。