Modern English Usage Dictionary (Revised Edition) (Revised Edition)

Author: Zhang Daoyan
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Publish Date: 2000-06-01
Features: This dictionary includes 10,000 words that are basic, commonly used, active, and difficult to master in English. Tailored to the practical needs of teenage English learners, approximately 6,000 entries have been carefully selected from China's senior and junior high school English teaching curricula and foreign dictionaries. Emphasizing the usage of strong grammatical functions in nouns, adjectives, and verbs, the dictionary highlights various usages in terms of phonetics, part of speech, definitions, collocations, derivatives, synonyms, antonyms, and distinctions, with examples from authentic English texts to illustrate. 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 basic, commonly used, active, and relatively difficult to master. Mastering the usage of these words provides a solid foundation for expressing general ideas and handling daily tasks. In terms of word selection, the dictionary primarily draws from foreign basic English dictionaries, carefully selecting approximately 6,000 commonly used words that belong to important everyday expressions and scientific and popular knowledge. Combined with derivatives and synonyms of verbs, adjectives, and nouns, as well as antonyms, the total number of words reaches around 10,000. These vocabulary items basically cover all fundamental words required by China's current senior and junior high school English teaching curricula and the E and I levels of the college English teaching syllabus.