The home of
trusted Mandarin dictionaries for everyday language learning.
This is the most
comprehensive and authoritative English to Mandarin Chinese dictionary of its
kind in print, with more than 250,000 English words and phrases and nearly
500,000 Chinese translations. Written for advanced learners and professionals.
This dictionary
celebrates a successful collaboration between the two well-known publishing
houses of Collins and the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press,
together with an international team of linguists, and it continues a long
tradition of excellence in lexicography. Both partners have mobilized their
enormous documentary, lexicographical and textual resources to present this
in-depth analysis of the latest developments in the English and Chinese
languages.
•Includes
up-to-date coverage of everyday and technical vocabulary, with particular focus
on specialist terminology in the fields of medicine and science.
•Provides users with around 150,000
usage examples based on Collins 4.5 billion word corpus, showing English as
it is actually used in context.
•Contains hundreds of extra features
to help the user in gaining a fuller understanding of the language and culture:
biographical entries referring to
people across all walks of life; hundreds
of encyclopaedic references with information about the most important events,
customs and institutions in the United Kingdom and the United States.
•Comprehensive cultural notes cover
all aspects of British and American life and culture, with additional
cross-references to notes from other entries.
•Usage differences between British and American English clearly shown.
•Usage notes describe the most
commonly-confused words in English.
•Phonetics are shown using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
•Irregular inflected forms of English words shown in full.
•Chinese speakers can access an app with English audio.
A range of
supplements include information on: Differences between British and American
English, English Prefixes and Suffixes, Weights & Measures, Chemical
Elements, UK Traditional Counties & US States, Books of the Bible.
Prefaces written
by the esteemed Chinese linguist Professor Hu Zhuanglin and the acclaimed
Professor of English Language, Professor Susan Hunston, University of
Birmingham.
