Fashionable and Fun English Explained

Author: Zhou Shuchen
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Over a hundred "Fun English" pieces, as the name implies, are humorous, witty, and amusing short essays popular in American society, covering politics, society, and life. The book also includes articles such as "A Brief History of English Vocabulary Development" and "New Words in the New Oxford Dictionary," which are appended at the end for reference. The "Explanations of Trendy English" and "Fun English" selections in this booklet are excerpted from the weekly "Supplement" of the Reference News newspaper's "Words and Pictures" column. The original materials were carefully selected by the newspaper's editors from major American and British publications. The 30 articles in "Explanations of Trendy English" are mostly interpretations and explorations of words with "characteristic features" used by American language scholars in speeches or articles on political, military, and diplomatic policies of American political, military, and diplomatic figures over the past two years, translated and annotated by senior translator and reviser Mr. Wang Xiuliang.