Modern Common Russian-Chinese Idioms Dictionary

Author: Su Xueben
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This dictionary includes nearly 700 commonly used idioms in daily life or social and political communication, as well as some newly emerging idioms that are gaining wider popularity. To deepen readers' understanding of Russian idioms, the compilers provide an overview of Russian idioms in the introduction of the dictionary. The dictionary not only offers detailed explanations in both Russian and Chinese of the meaning, rhetorical features, and grammatical characteristics of the included idioms but also provides specialized descriptions in Russian of their usage and collocation patterns in speech. Some idioms are also accompanied by synonyms or antonyms. The examples in the dictionary are primarily extracted from Russian newspapers, classic or modern literary works published in recent years. Some examples are also self-composed colloquial sentences by the compilers to facilitate readers' quick comprehension of the idioms in their expressive contexts. The target readers of this dictionary are enterprise and institutional staff, government employees, engineers, teachers, students, postgraduate students, translators, and other Russian language workers with a certain foundation in Russian.