FLTRP. The latest Concise English-Chinese Dictionary

Author: Sanmin Book Company
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: This dictionary has the following major features: First, it has a large number of entries. It includes 140,000 words, with 79,500 headwords, 19,401 phrases, and 14,502 derived words. Its word count is the largest among portable. Second, it has rich encyclopedic vocabulary and many new words and meanings. In addition to general vocabulary, this dictionary adds more than 4,500 newly emerging and popular words from various fields compared to the Concise English-Chinese Dictionary (13th Edition), marked with a red ★ for distinction, such as in the fields of economics and computer technology alone, over 1,000 new words have been added; it also includes some newly coined English words after the 9/11 event (e.g., BAT (naive and self-centered attitudes of Americans before the 9/11 terrorist attacks)). Given that English learning requires not only understanding the language itself but also the social, political, cultural, and everyday life of English-speaking countries, this dictionary includes a large number of names of people (e.g., Powell (U.S. Secretary of State (2001-2005))), organizations, cooking and beverage terms (e.g., pierogi (cheese dumplings); Strawberry Kiss cocktail), and products (e.g., Kit-Kat chocolate). Third, it provides detailed background information. This dictionary offers background explanations for most encyclopedic entries (including a large number of general words), which is rare given its word count and pocket-sized format. Fourth, it marks word frequency. This dictionary highlights core vocabulary in the main text with red and indicates their usage frequency with one or two red stars (), providing readers with reference for word choice and sentence construction. Fifth, it includes rich etymological information. The origins of some words, the original meanings of loanwords, and the full English names of acronyms are marked in the main text. Sixth, it uses American pronunciation. This dictionary adopts the K.K. phonetic symbols and only marks American pronunciation. In recent years, with the increasing exchanges between mainland China and Taiwan, some Taiwanese terms have gradually become familiar to people. Therefore, without compromising readability, this dictionary retains some Taiwanese terms, hoping not only to assist readers in English but also to showcase the richness and diversity of Chinese.