COBUILD English-Chinese Bilingual Dictionary

Author: (British) Sinclair (Sinclair, J.) (Editor-in-Chief), translated by the editorial team of the Cobuild English-Chinese Dictionary
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Publishing Date: 2002-11-01
Features: The original of the "COBUILD English-Chinese Dictionary" is the "Collins COBUILD English Dictionary," jointly developed and published by HarperCollins Publishers and the English Department of the University of Birmingham, UK. This is an extremely innovative dictionary. All the corpus data of the dictionary is collected from a computer corpus of up to 450 million words. The English example sentences derived from the corpus are more authentic, comprehensive, reliable, and natural. The vast amount of original data makes the selection, definition, and interpretation of entries more perfect and accurate. The definitions of the "Collins COBUILD English Dictionary" completely break through the traditional patterns and formats that have been followed by dictionaries for a long time, incorporating headwords into clear and natural complete sentences. Contextual definitions fully reflect the dynamic characteristics of words, enhancing the readability of the entry content. This innovation has been widely praised by dictionary experts and users and has been actively emulated by many similar dictionaries. The "Collins COBUILD English Dictionary" adds additional columns, arranging definitions and various grammatical and semantic markers in separate columns, ensuring the continuity of the definition text while also creating space for systematically providing grammatical, lexical, and pragmatic information. Since the publication of the "Collins COBUILD English Dictionary," it has had a profound impact on English teaching circles worldwide. In light of this, Donghua Book Company in Taiwan purchased the translation rights at a high price and invited over ten renowned scholars from both sides of the Taiwan Strait with deep expertise in Chinese and English and rich translation experience to work together tirelessly, meticulously reviewing and polishing every word to complete the translation. The dictionary was further reviewed and refined by experts in the field of lexicography before being published in traditional Chinese characters in January 2000. Shanghai Translation Publishing House mobilized strong editing teams to comprehensively organize the dictionary, replacing a small number of definitions and examples that did not fit the context of China and adding new words and meanings that have emerged in recent years and have been widely adopted by English-speaking countries. The newly renovated "COBUILD English-Chinese Dictionary" presents a fresh appearance. The pure and authentic English and elegant and accurate Chinese complement each other, while the rich corpus and concise and fluent definitions shine together. We believe that the "COBUILD English-Chinese Dictionary" will surely become a valuable companion and guide for English teachers and students.