Fluent Expression -- English Keyword Pairing Training (Upper-Intermediate)

Author: (English) Woolard (Woolard.G.) edited and compiled, Lu Xiaoping translated
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Publishing Date: 2006-04-01
Features: "Fluent Expression—English Keyword Collocation Training" is a series of English vocabulary learning books introduced from Thomson Learning Publishing Group. It includes 3 books: Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, and Pre-Advanced. "Collocation" refers to how words combine with each other in usage. This combination is often fixed. Nouns are the most expressive word class in English, also known as "keywords" in this book. "Fluent Expression—English Keyword Collocation Training" selects over 600 of the most commonly used English nouns and provides 10-20 collocations for each noun in different contexts. The content of this book is extremely broad, ranging from court rituals and systems, successes and failures in governance, to the sayings of Confucian classics, historical records, and the works of various scholars, down to landscapes, literary works, and even the trivial anecdotes of scholars—all of which are recorded. It is a representative work of Song Dynasty note-taking that focuses on textual research while also incorporating miscellaneous anecdotes.