英译汉Henry BradshawWhen one speaks of Bradshaw's "work" it is hard to make the unitiated quite understand either its extent, its importance, or its perfection
He knew more about printed books than any man living-he could tell at a glance the date and country, generally the town, at which a book was published
And the enormous range of this subject cannot be explained without a technical knowledge of the same
He was one of the foremost of Chaucer scholars, a very efficient linguist in range (though for reading, not speaking purposes), as, for instance, in the case of the old Breton language, which he evolved from notes and glosses, scribbled between the lines and on margins of Mass books-and his joy at the discovery of a word that he had suspected but never encountered was delightful t