牛津词典面试记  

My Interview at the Dictionary

作　　者：约翰·辛普森 田兵(译)[2] John Simpson

机构地区：[1]不详 [2]广东外语外贸大学词典学研究中心

出　　处：《英语世界》2020年第3期40-46,共7页The World of English

摘　　要：词典部约我面试是在6月,1976年那个漫长炎热的夏季刚刚开始,希拉丽和我乘坐火车,从雷丁庄重的红砖楼来到牛津堂皇的中世纪建筑,看看我能否谋取一份稳定的工作,跻身工薪阶层。我们顺利抵达牛津火车站,一路找到坐落于沃尔顿大街的牛津大学出版社办事处——我后来开始将这里视为西方世界词典编纂的中枢(epicentre)。到了这儿,我得一个人行动了。希拉丽决定在当地的商店转一转,充满信心却也是过于天真地预计,大约30分钟后我就会重新出现:无论是录用,还是被拒。My interview at the dictionary was in June,at the beginning of the long hot summer of 1976,and Hilary and I took the train up3 from the earnest red brick of Reading to the medieval grandeur of Oxford to see if I could be settled into steady employment and the salary-earning classes.We arrived at the railway station and made our way to the Oxford University Press offices in Walton Street—to what I later came to regard as the epicentre of dictionary-making in the Western world.From here I was on my own.Hilary decided to look around the local shops,confidently but naively expecting me to reappear—elated or dejected—about thirty minutes later.

关 键 词：牛津大学出版社 沃尔顿 希拉 词典编纂 工薪阶层 面试 火车站 

分 类 号：G63[文化科学—教育学]