Like many characters in his novels, Roald Dahl lived an exciting life. He was born to Norwegian parents in Wales and spent most of his life in England. Since childhood, Dahl had a love of language. He showed a high level of creativity by inventing over 500 new words and character names. His unique use of language even led Oxford University Press to create the Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary, which contains almost 8,000 real and made-up words that he loved to use.
就像他小说中的许多人物一样，罗德．达尔过著刺激的生活。他出生于威尔斯，父母是挪威人，一生大部分时间都在英格兰度过。从童年起，达尔就热爱语言。他创造了五百多个新词和新的人物名，展现出极高的创造力。他独特的语言运用甚至促使牛津大学出版社编写了《罗德．达尔字典》，其中收录了近八千个他喜欢使用的真实和虚构词汇。
生活必备字词：
be born to + 人 由某人所生
childhood n. 童年
invent vt. 创造，发明
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