English Culture and English Idioms: 1000 English Idioms

Author: Zhang Yongxian
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The book "English Culture and English Idioms—1000 English Idioms" aims to help students enhance their English proficiency and broaden their knowledge from a different perspective. Overall, the book possesses the following key features:
1. Authority, practicality, and accuracy.
2. Helps you understand and memorize through "literal meanings."
3. Broadens your horizons and enhances your learning interest.
4. Cultivates your ability to think in English.
5. Allows you to experience the infinite depth of the English language.
6. Combines learning with practice.
Based on current English textbooks in English-speaking countries, as well as the author's years of teaching experience, study, work, and life abroad, including personal experiences in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, the author has collected over 1,000 commonly used English idioms (including over 100 proverbs and sayings in the appendix) in this textbook. To ensure the practicality of the idioms and the accuracy of their definitions and examples, the content of this textbook can be seen as a summary of the author's many years of learning and using English.
The purpose of writing this textbook has two aspects:
1. To help readers improve their English proficiency, expand their linguistic knowledge, and enrich their active vocabulary.
2. To introduce some preliminary cross-cultural research content, broaden readers' horizons, and cultivate their interest in foreign cultures.