Latest English-Chinese Dictionary Usage

Author: He Xiaoling
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Publish Date: 1998-09-01
Features: The book features are as follows:
It focuses on "grammar and sentence patterns" as the editing priority. It organically combines single words, grammar, and sentence patterns. When looking up single words, you can learn related grammar and practical sentence patterns.
Each single word is followed by two phonetic transcriptions. The American pronunciation uses the K.K (Kenyon & Knott) phonetic symbols, while the British pronunciation uses the D.J. (Daniel Jones) phonetic symbols. It highlights points that are prone to pronunciation or spelling errors.
Based on one of the most commonly used single words in English, it lists synonyms, antonyms, compound words, derived words, and common phrases, achieving the effect of learning by analogy.
It includes 1,064 illustrations. This makes some abstract concepts more concrete, clarifying the meaning and usage of words.
At the end of the dictionary, there are three appendices: ① an irregular verb table; ② 33 basic sentence patterns in formulas; ③ 142 rules of the eight major verb tables in English grammar.
It comes with eight boxes of audio cassettes to help readers memorize single words and their pronunciations.