FLTRP. Modern Chinese-English Dictionary (New Edition)

Author: Editorial Department of the Publishing House
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: This dictionary is a bilingual Chinese-English reference tool, primarilying common language terms, while also including basic entries from various fields of social sciences and natural sciences, including common new technology terms. On the other hand, although the dictionary focuses on modern everyday language, it also incorporates classical and written language, as they are the rich legacy of Chinese language accumulated over thousands of years. In practical language use, there is often no clear boundary between general and encyclopedic terms, or between spoken and written language. This pragmatic reality is reflected in the dictionary, making it a natural consideration to balance both aspects. Based on the Chinese-English Dictionary (Revised Edition) published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, which won the First-Class Lexicography Award and the 10th China Book Award, this dictionary has been revised by removing obscure and rarely used entries, resulting in a total of 53,000 entries, with over 10,000 newly added terms. The entries cover a wide range of disciplines, including politics, economics, law, biology, medicine, ecology, electronics, science, and technology. Each definition has been carefully reviewed and is concise and precise. To facilitate readers' searches, the compilers have marked the subject fields and rhetorical usages of the entries, and have annotated the part of speech for all single-character entries. The addition of words and classified terms starting with English letters highlights the contemporary characteristics and reflects the laws of linguistic development.