Speaking of dictionaries, the word “set” has the most definitions of any English word, with well over 400 in the OED.

说到字典，单词 set 是所有英语单词中定义最多的，在《牛津英语词典》中有400多个含义。

In addition, many words were kept out of the OED: " homosexuality" was included in 1933, " lesbian" not until 1976.

此外，许多词曾经被《牛津英语词典》排除在外：“同性恋”一词于1933年被收录，“女同性恋”一词直到1976年才被收录在内。

In July 1915 an ailing James Murray, one of the early editors of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), defined one final word.

1915年7月，《牛津英语词典》的早期编辑之一詹姆斯·默里强撑病躯，给最后一个单词撰写了定义。

The lack of such an organization is likely one reason that nearly 4,000 new words are added each year to the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED.

缺乏这样的组织可能是《牛津英语词典》每年新增近4000个新词的原因之一。

Ms Ogilvie, a former lexicographer who served as an editor for the OED, went into the archives of Oxford University Press and stumbled across an old notebook.

奥格尔维曾是一名词典编纂者，曾担任《牛津英语词典》的编辑。有一天她走进牛津大学出版社的档案馆，偶然发现了一本旧笔记本。

You could even just cut to the chase and call the person themselves a placebo, which, according to the OED, meant " a flatterer, a sycophant, [or] a parasite."

你甚至可以开门见山地把这个人称为“placebo”，根据牛津英语词典，“placebo”的意思是“奉承者、马屁精、[或]寄生虫。”