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《英汉大词典》的主编陆谷孙先生现在是上海复旦大学英文系主任。陆先生应科技大学之邀来参加一个研讨会，宣读一篇讨论词典编纂学之成规与创意的论文（Traditionality and Creativity in Lexicography ）。陆先生动身前托郑健娜转来他的讲稿给我先睹。他来去匆匆，回上海前夕，健娜请吃饭，我们终於见面聊天了。古今中外编纂词典的词语大师都必须带几分艺术家脾气；wordsmith原是剖析语言艺术纤维的巧匠，向来无暇追求宏观理论体系，一心体贴微观根源脉络。陆谷孙正是一位与字结缘的艺术家：会喝酒；会唱歌；迸两句英语用字发音毫不马虎；吃饺子讲究先吮汁才吃皮吃馅；言谈举止豪放而永远观察得到一桌人的细微反应。我们一见如故，唯一分歧是他不爱吃甜点，我爱。陆谷孙的《英汉大词典》那么成功，还要出《补编》，注定这辈子缠在字网里了（"caught in the web of words"）。我猜想他宁愿称自己为wordsmith而不是lexicographer。Lexicographer 太辉煌了，不像文人。

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他在他的讲稿里谈到他编词典纯属偶然：一九七零年文革期间他受牵连，意识形态不正确不适合教书，受命编字典以示惩戒，要他接近文字而远离学生，免得他不红不正的思想贻害后学。他说他正是这样给扔进说文解字的大海里，完全不谙水性，沉沉浮浮，慢慢才学会游泳。陆谷孙那段英文是这样写的：“I myself became a dictionary-maker not by purposeful upbringing but by sheer accident. It happened in 1970 during China's Cultural Revolution when I was stigmatized, judged ideologically unfit for teaching, and assigned the punitive busywork of comiling A New English-Chinese Dictionary （NEC） on the assumption that in dealing with words instead of with live persons who were my students my presumably unorthodox thinking would play less havoc. I was thus plunged into the sea of lexicography without having been first taught how to swim. Sure enough, I was all but drowned and had to learn swimming little by little-the hard way.”

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