后面哪些.the writing of a dictionary,therefore,is not a task of

后面哪些.
the writing of a dictionary,therefore,is not a task of setting up authoritative statements about the "true meanings" of words,but a task of recording,to the best of one's ability,what various words have meant to authors in the distant or immediate past.
因此,写字典不是作者的观点对一些词的“正确意思”写上去这样的任务,而是记录的任务,竭尽自己的才能,（后面的我不会翻了,其中的meant什么意思?distant or immediate past（一段距离或直接的过去?））