Vocational College English Vocabulary Essentials

Author: Wang Shixian
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: According to the "Basic Requirements for English Course Teaching in Higher Vocational and Specialized Education" formulated by the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education, higher vocational and specialized students must possess the basic foreign language skills required for their level. They should be able to recognize a certain amount of English vocabulary and the common phrases formed by these words, correctly spell about 1,500 to 2,000 of them, and translate between English and Chinese. This book provides phonetic transcriptions for each entry and includes example sentences for every word to help readers understand the meaning and master the usage of the words. At the end of the book, there are appendices such as "A List of Some Countries (or Regions), Languages, Nationalities, and Nationality Names," "A List of Common Geographical Names," "A List of Common Abbreviations," and "An Irregular Verbs List."