Student English-Chinese Dictionary

Author: Gu Xiquan, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: Interpreting word meanings is the essence of a dictionary. We have adopted clear, authentic English and corresponding Chinese for bilingual definitions, making them perfectly matched. This not only helps readers understand the meanings of words more accurately but also expands their vocabulary and improves their English expression skills, achieving the dual benefit of efficiency. For English learners, this alone makes bilingual dictionaries superior to monolingual dictionaries that define words. Another feature of this dictionary is its focus on word usage and collocations. Addressing the differences between English and Chinese, we have included necessary grammatical knowledge in the entries and definitions, especially for linguistic phenomena and rules that Chinese students may find unfamiliar, difficult to judge, or easily confused. These include inflectional forms of words, usage scope and collocations, countable and uncountable nouns and their singular and plural forms, adjectives that can only be used as predicatives or attributives, adjectives and adverbs without comparative forms, verbs that cannot be used in the continuous tense, and verbs commonly used in the passive voice, among others. This dictionary clearly marks and briefly explains all these aspects. Additionally, the dictionary includes abundant examples, allowing readers not only to further grasp the exact meanings of words or definitions but also to learn by imitation and generalize from the provided collocations and sentence patterns. In summary, emphasizing practicality and strong targeting is a key principle of our compilation, and it is also a distinctive feature of this dictionary. We believe this dictionary will undoubtedly become a trusted guide and companion for Chinese students learning English.