Foreign Allusions Dictionary

Author: Lin Shuwu
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: Compiling a dictionary involves an important task of determining the principles for selecting entries: which terms should be included and which should not. To save readers' purchase costs and research time, this book strives to collect common and frequently used allusions, and also to gather example sentences that use these allusions. Therefore, it is not presumptuous to call this dictionary a "selected allusions dictionary," but it can be said that these allusions are fundamental. Of course, a dictionary that collects as complete a range of allusions as possible is also useful—it allows readers to understand the meaning and source of less common allusions. Since they are less common, the readership is much narrower, and it can even be said that only some professionals might use such an allusions dictionary. Comparing this, the readership of this dictionary is relatively broad.