Modern English-Chinese Bilingual Dictionary: The Latest Version

Author: Liu Shitong
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: This dictionary comprehensively covers various fields such as vocabulary, phonetics, semantics, pragmatics, and grammar in modern English, showcasing its distinct characteristics of comprehensiveness and practicality. It selects over 10 million commonly used English words, with a special inclusion of newly derived words and their updated definitions in recent years. All headwords are phonetically transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), with different pronunciations marked where applicable. The dictionary provides detailed annotations for the plural forms of countable nouns, inflectional forms of verbs, and comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs. Words with different parts of speech and multiple definitions of the same part of speech are clearly distinguished and explained in both English and Chinese, facilitating bidirectional thinking. The format is innovative, the layout is scientific, the definitions are concise yet thorough, and the example sentences are brief and vivid. Appendices include multiple common English-Chinese reference tables.