Golden Shield Middle School English-Chinese Illustrated Dictionary

Author: Edited by Yuan Xingju
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features:
- Selected Entries: Primarily based on the English Curriculum Standards, with strong emphasis on up-to-date information.
- Vivid Illustrations: Over 2,000 illustrations, aiding in intuitive and visual memorization of word meanings.
- Concise Definitions: Selected definitions, including synonyms and near-synonyms, to establish connections between new and existing language knowledge.
- High Practicality: Approximately 2,000 example sentences, simple and (:), making the dictionary useful for daily communication. While using the dictionary, users can also learn a large number of commonly used oral and written phrases and sentences.
The target readers of the Golden Shield English-Chinese Illustrated Dictionary for Middle School Students are middle school students and self-learners with intermediate or above English proficiency.
The compilation principles of this dictionary are: refining entries, elaborating definitions, simplifying examples, and striving for vivid illustrations. To achieve this, the compilers adopted the following specific practices:
1. The dictionary primarily follows the new curriculum standards and references multiple graded vocabulary dictionaries, common word dictionaries, and middle school English teaching syllabi to select 5,000 frequently used words as entries. It also includes 2,000+ common word groups, derived words, and compound words. These are not only essential for Chinese middle school students but also for students in many other non-English-speaking countries such as Russia, Japan, and Singapore, which require a minimum vocabulary. To keep pace with modern trends, the selection of words also includes some newly common terms.
2. The dictionary features over 2,000 illustrations.
3. The definitions of words, especially those of functional words, are more detailed than those in typical student dictionaries. Although it is not a bilingual dictionary, it lists synonyms or phrases where possible.
4. Most definitions in the dictionary are accompanied by concise and practical word combinations or single-sentence examples.