English-Chinese Bilingual Dictionary

Author: (British) Sinclair (Sinclair, J.) Editor-in-Chief, translated by the editorial team of the Collins COBUILD English-Chinese Dictionary
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Publishing Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The source of the Collins COBUILD English-Chinese Dictionary is the Collins COBUILD English Dictionary, jointly compiled and published by HarperCollins Publishers and the English Department of the University of Birmingham, UK. This is an extremely innovative dictionary. All the corpus data of the dictionary are sourced from a computer corpus of up to 450 million words. The English example sentences derived from the corpus are more authentic, comprehensive, reliable, and natural. The vast amount of original corpus data makes the selection, definition, and interpretation of entries more perfect and precise. The definitions of the Collins COBUILD English Dictionary completely break through the traditional formats and models long adhered to by conventional dictionaries, incorporating headwords into clear and natural complete sentences. Contextual definitions fully reflect the dynamic characteristics of words, enhancing the readability of the entries. This innovation has been widely praised by dictionary experts and users and has been actively emulated by many similar dictionaries. The Collins COBUILD English Dictionary includes additional columns, arranging definitions and various grammatical and semantic markers in separate columns, ensuring the continuity of definition text while providing space for systematically presenting grammatical, lexical, and pragmatic information. Since its publication, the Collins COBUILD English Dictionary has had a profound impact on English teaching worldwide. In light of this, Donghua Publishing House in Taiwan acquired the translation rights for a substantial sum and invited over ten outstanding scholars from both sides of the and Hong Kong and Macao with deep expertise in both Chinese and English, as well as rich translation experience, to collaborate painstakingly and meticulously translate the entire book. The dictionary was then reviewed and polished by renowned experts in lexicography, and the traditional Chinese version was finally published in January 2000. Shanghai Translation Publishing House assembled a strong team of editors to comprehensively revise the dictionary, replacing a small number of definitions and examples that were not suitable for China's context and adding new words and meanings that have emerged in recent years and have been widely adopted by English-speaking countries. The newly renovated Collins COBUILD English-Chinese Dictionary presents a fresh appearance. The pure and authentic English and elegant and accurate Chinese complement each other, while the rich corpus and concise and fluent definitions shine in harmony. We believe that the Collins COBUILD English-Chinese Dictionary will undoubtedly become an excellent teacher and companion for English teachers and students.