OED wears its status with a magisterial self-assurance, not least by giving its half million definitions a robustly Victorian certitude of tone.
《牛津英语词典》以一种威严的自信来显示它的重要地位，以维多利亚时代那种坚决肯定的语气来定义五十万个词语，尤其体现这种自信。