Concise English Idioms Dictionary

Author: Zhuang Zhixiang
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: In the process of learning and using English, studying, familiarizing with, and mastering English idioms is crucial for English learners and users to improve their English comprehension and expression, enrich their expressive means, and enhance their proficiency. However, learning, understanding, mastering, and using English idioms is also one of the difficulties in English learning. To help middle and high school students and English workers study and use English idioms better and more effectively, the author wrote this Concise English Idioms Dictionary based on the needs and actual conditions of English learners in China. This dictionary includes approximately 800 contemporary English idioms, each with English and Chinese definitions, which are concise and accurate. Each entry is accompanied by at least one example sentence. The example sentences are natural, concise, and practical. The translation strives for accuracy and fluency. For the origins of certain idioms or difficult-to-understand or hard-to-master usages, as well as prepositional collocations, appropriate annotations and explanations are provided as needed. This dictionary is arranged in alphabetical order by the headword, making it easy to look up. It can be used by college English students, English majors, English teachers in middle and high schools, as well as other English learners and translators. Due to the limitations of the compiler, shortcomings and omissions are inevitable. We sincerely welcome readers to point them out.