21st Century Medium English-Chinese Dictionary

Author: Li Huaju
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This book combines an English-Chinese dictionary, a usage dictionary, a learning dictionary, an encyclopedic dictionary, and a new words dictionary into one, offering multifunctional utility. It caters to the needs of modern English users, learners, educators, workers, translators, and a broad readership in China. It serves as a reference and toolbook for modern Chinese families, schools, and offices. The 21st Century Medium-Sized English-Chinese Dictionary is a comprehensive medium-sized English-Chinese dictionary that integrates a Chinese-English dictionary, a usage dictionary, a learning dictionary, an encyclopedic dictionary, and a new words dictionary. This dictionary provides detailed explanations of phonetics, semantics, grammar, and pragmatics in English. It includes usage labels as needed, indicating register, domain, language, and discipline. The dictionary notes the first appearance year of each entry, helping readers understand the evolution of English vocabulary. The annotation of etymological dates is a distinctive feature of this dictionary. It selects over 50,000 modern English words, new meanings, new usages, and new collocations that emerged in the 21st century and have become relatively stable, vibrant, and fresh. These new words fully reflect the developments in British and American society, politics, economy, culture, science, and technology in the 21st century, while also showcasing the evolution of English in the 20th century. The dictionary emphasizes the role of a learning dictionary and a usage dictionary, particularly in its common words section, especially for verbs and phrasal verbs, which include abundant examples. It integrates a medium-sized learning dictionary into itself, thus possessing the functions of both a usage dictionary and a learning dictionary.