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　　You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries．In fact,an English dictionary you 　　1　　 today wasn’t made until the Qing Dynasty(清朝)．Three men did most of the important 　　2　　 work on dictionaries．They spent nearly all their lives tring to 　　3　　 words for their dictionaries．For them, it was a wonderful journey．The largest dictionaries in the world is Qxford English Dictionary．The 　　4　　 for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857．Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor(編者)of its new dictionary．

　　Murray had never been to 　　5　　．At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank．　　6　　 he became a great teacher．After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had small house 　　7　　 in his garden to do the work．Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five and 　　8　　 in the small house several hours before breakfast．Often he would work into the night．Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years．But after five years, he was 　　9　　 adding(增加)for the letter“A”!He worked on the dictionary 　　10　　 he was very old．Forty-four years later, in 1928,other editors finished the dictionary．