Practical New English-Chinese Mini Dictionary

Author: Lei Zhijing
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Publish Date: 2000-06-01
Features: Headwords are in boldface. If a word has two spellings, they are indicated in parentheses, such as: an(a)emia, travel(l)er. Foreign words are noted, such as: [French], [Latin], meaning "French" and "Latin," respectively. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is provided in brackets after the headword, using broad transcription. If a word has different pronunciations due to its part of speech or definition, the phonetic symbols are indicated separately. Irregular changes in the past tense and past participle of verbs, irregular plural forms of nouns, and irregular comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs are listed in parentheses after the part of speech.