Shakespeare didn't come up with most of the famous phrases in his plays but was credited with thembecause of a fault with the Oxford English dictionary, a leading scholar claims.

一位著名的学者称，莎士比亚在他的作品中并没有发明那些著名的短语，但是由于牛津词典的错误，很多人相信这些短语是莎士比亚发明的。

Mr McInnis argues that it is actually the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) that has attributed the phrases to Shakespeare, but it is 'biased'.

麦金尼斯博士认为事实上《牛津英语词典》将这些短语归功于莎士比亚，但是这是一种“偏见”。

'The Complete Works of Shakespeare was frequently raided for early examples of word use, even though words or phrases might have been used earlier, by less famous or less literary people,' he writes in the University of Melbourne magazine.

《莎翁全集》经常被拿来当做早期词语用法的参考，尽管这些词可能在更早之前被那些不是那么有名，或者不是那么具有文学性的人使用过了。

那么究竟有哪些短语明明不是莎翁发明，却把功劳归于他了呢?我们来举几个例子：

'Its' all Greek to me,' which appears in playwright Robert Greene's The Scottish History of James The Fourth before in Julius Ceaser.

“如闻天书”在《凯撒大帝》之前就已经出现在罗伯特·格林的《苏格兰史：詹姆斯四世》中。

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