查SOED遇到的一些特殊标识符号
http://public.oed.com/how-to-use-the-oed/key-to-symbols-and-other-conventions/Key to symbols and other conventions
Before a word or sense
† = obsolete
‖ = not naturalized, alien (not used in New Edition entries)
¶ = catachrestic and erroneous uses (not used in New Edition entries)
After a label ‘Obs.’ or ‘rare’
—0 indicates a word or sense for which no contextual examples from printed sources were available to the editors
—1
indicates a word or sense for which only one contextual example from a printed source was available to the editors
In a listing of variant spellings
Second Edition entries:
1 = before 1100
2 = 12th century (1100-1200)
3 = 13th century (1200-1300), etc.
5-7 = 15th to 17th century, etc.
9- = 19th century to present, etc.
20 = 20th century
New Edition entries:
eOE = early Old English
OE = Old English
lOE = late Old English
eME = early Middle English
ME = Middle English
lME = late Middle English
14 = 1400-99
15 = 1500-99, etc.
16-18 = 1600-1899, etc.
18- = 1800-present, etc.
-17 = before 1700 (labelling Older Scottish forms)
In an etymology
* indicates a word or form not actually found, but of which the existence is inferred
< = from (in New Edition entries)
> = developed into or borrowed as (in New Edition entries)
Before a date
a = ante
c = circa
? indicates an uncertain date
In a quotation
… (within cited text) indicates an omitted part of a quotation
[ ] surrounds an editorial insertion
~ indicates a hyphen introduced in the printing of the First Edition of the OED, which may not have been present in the cited text
Around an entire quotation
[ ] indicates a quotation is relevant to the development of a sense but not directly illustrative of it
Around an entire entry
[ ] indicates a ‘spurious’ entry 非常有用！
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