Wonderful people, wonderful words

Author: Cai Haiyan, Ge Dongyun, Wen Huijing (editors)
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: A language is not just a tool for communication, but also a carrier of thought—and ultimately, of civilization. Such a key can not only open the door to your future life but also unlock another quite novel and sufficiently fascinating civilization. This unique civilization has its own language, thought, literature, history, and legends, its own heroes and giants, colors, and splendor. Through its language, you become more likely to truly touch the pulse of this civilization and breathe its distinctive air. In this sense, foreign language is closer to a kaleidoscope—through it, you can see how many colorful and utterly novel things there are! This book adopts a bilingual English-Chinese format, selecting and compiling over 100 pieces of brilliant people and their wondrous words. The stories are arranged in alphabetical order by the first letter of the sentence. Each story's protagonist is briefly introduced, and the vocabulary and idioms used in each story are annotated to help readers better understand the meaning. Words related to allusions are also explained in footnotes.