英语翻译是OED的简介里的一段话 希望有高手能帮我翻译一下.As the OED is a historical dic

英语翻译
是OED的简介里的一段话 希望有高手能帮我翻译一下.
As the OED is a historical dictionary,its entry structure is very different from that of a dictionary of current English,in which only present-day senses are covered,and in which the most common meanings or senses are described first.For each word in the OED,the various groupings of senses are dealt with in chronological order according to the quotation evidence,i.e.the senses with the earliest quotations appear first,and the senses which have developed more recently appear further down the entry.In a complex entry with many strands,the development over time can be seen in a structure with several 'branches'.