Chinese-English Sports Idioms Classification Vocabulary

Author: Lin Weicheng
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: The book is categorized by Olympic competition events, serving as a reference for athletes, volunteers and service personnel, sports media, and related translation professionals. It is also an English learning tool and reference book for Olympic English. This vocabulary contains over 21,000 entries. Only commonly used words are included, with single-character and dual-character words left unchanged. The entries are limited to three to ten characters (with some important specialized terms occasionally exceeding ten characters). The entries are sorted by Olympic event categories and then alphabetically by Pinyin within each category. For words with multiple pronunciations, they are separated and listed accordingly. The Chinese usage patterns generally include noun+noun, noun+verb, verb+noun, adjective+noun, adverb+verb, adverb+adjective, preposition+noun, and multi-layered collocations, among others. Different English translations are separated by semicolons. Various symbols in Chinese are not considered in the sorting. The Chinese-English translations are carefully matched to ensure accuracy, without the use of annotations. Articles in English translations generally omit the definite article at the beginning unless necessary. The symbol usage in the book is as follows: ( ) indicates optional parts; [ ] indicates parts that can be replaced by the preceding word. The entries collected in this book cover nearly 24,000 terms for all permanent events in both the Summer and Winter Olympics. An appendix is also included, listing proper nouns of world sports organizations, proper nouns of world sports competitions, and a brief table of Olympic event settings.