Modern English Usage Dictionary (Revised Edition)

Author: Zhang Daozhen
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Publish Date: 2000-06-01
Features: This dictionary includes 10,000 essential, common, active, and challenging words in English. Based on the actual needs of young English learners, approximately 6,000 entries have been carefully selected from China's senior and junior high school English teaching curricula and foreign dictionaries. It emphasizes the usage of certain grammatically strong nouns, adjectives, and verbs in terms of phonetics, part of speech, definitions, collocations, derivatives, synonyms, antonyms, and distinctions, illustrated with examples from original English texts. This is a dictionary that focuses on explaining the usage of nearly 10,000 common words. These words account for only one-fiftieth of the total English vocabulary but are essential, common, active, and relatively difficult to master. Mastering their usage provides a solid foundation for expressing general ideas and handling daily tasks. In terms of word selection, this dictionary primarily draws from published basic English dictionaries abroad, carefully selecting approximately 6,000 common words that are important for daily life and scientific and technological knowledge, along with some derivatives and synonyms of verbs, adjectives, and nouns, totaling around 10,000 words. These vocabulary items basically cover all fundamental words required by China's current junior and senior high school English teaching curricula and the E and I levels of the college English teaching curricula.