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What expectation does the following definition, from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914?

以下这句引自"恶魔字典"的引言打乱了什麼预期呢？

As for Ambrose Bierce,"The Devil's Dictionary" was republished a couple of years ago, and continues to sell respectably.

至于安布鲁斯·比尔斯，他的《魔鬼辞典》两年前再版，继续销售可观。

Jeff:"The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce.

杰夫：安布罗斯·毕尔斯的《魔鬼字典》。

Bierce by providing texts of the Fantastic Fables, Can Such Things Be, An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories, all hyperlinked to the famous Devil's Dictionary.

毕尔斯所提供的文本美妙寓言，可这些事情，发生在猫头鹰溪大桥和其他的故事，所有超文本链接到著名的魔鬼的字典。

Amanda: It's "The Devil's Dictionary." It's very funny. Ambrose Bierce was a brilliant American satirist.

魔鬼词典》，非常有趣，作者是美国著名的讽刺作家安布鲁斯·毕尔斯。

Verbs often need special treatment, as for example bivouac (from french, and before that probably from swiss german) which needs a k in the past tense (bivouacked,not bivouaced which might be mispronounced), and ski where the past form skied is not really satisfactory, and ski'd was once popular as an alternative.in this dictionary extensive help is given with these and other difficulties of inflection.

动词往往需要特殊对待，如bivouac(源自法语，更早时可能源自瑞士德语)的过去时需要增加一个k (bivouacked 而不是bivouaced，后者可能导致错误发音)， ski的过去时skied 差强人意， ski'd 作为其替代形式曾流行一时。对于诸如此类以及其他屈折变化方面的困难，本词典中提供了广泛的帮助。

Any story she told (like the one about the cat who gave birth to a chicken) was 100 percent true: the boogeyman really would kidnap me if I didn't sleep under the covers, and when we played Scrabble, the word that scored her 36 points, confuzzled , was actually in the dictionary (just the newer edition we didn't have).

她讲的任何故事（比如有一个故事说猫生了只小鸡）都百分之百真实：假如我不睡在被子下，恶魔就会把我绑架了去；当我们玩"涂鸦"拼字游戏，"糊惑的"这个词让她得了36分，它在词典里真的有（只是我们没有更新版本的词典）。

It not only met the social need of reading classics for the bookman then and there, but possessed a consequence in the history of Chinese dictionary compiling.

另外，作为一部以正音辨义为目的的著作，《音辨》在语文规范化方面的价值也是不容忽视的。

I would like to buy a good Chinese dictionary but I can't find one in this bookshop.

我要买一个好的中文词典，但是这书店里我找不到一个。

Perhaps you might chance upon the dictionary at some old bookstall.

或许你会在旧书摊上偶然发现这本字典。

Now he worked in ajoint venture.

现在他在一家合资企业工作。

More troops in Afghanistan won't change any of the foregoing.

更多的在阿富汗的军队也不会改变之前的状况。