剑桥美国英语词典
2000-1
上海外语教育出版社
兰多 编
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本书收录了4万余条最常用的美国英语单词和短语，兼有英国英语和加拿大英语中的重要词条。反映了经济、教育、艺术和科技等社会生活各方面的最新发展。
编者：（英国）兰多
1 Language Portraits2 Preface3 Finding your way around the dictionary4 Grammar Codes5 Usage Labels6 Parts of speech and other labels7 Pronunciation symbolsA-ZIdioms index
书摘……
PrefaceThe ancient Romans said that in matters of language, usage is more powerful than Caesar.Their language was Latin, but this saying applies to English at the end of the 20th century as well. There is no central authority that decides what is and is not correct; it is all those who speak and write English, either as their first language or as a language they have learned later in life, who deter- mine the ways in which the language grows and changes. This dictionary describes the ways American English is used now--what words mean, how they are pronounced, their usual grammatical behavior, and typical contexts in which they appear. It was written using the Cambridge International Corpus, a computerized collection that includes some 100 million words of written and spoken American English taken from recent books, mag- azines, newspapers, radio and television broadcasts, and even telephone conversations. This re- source provides substantial evidence of how words are used, which allows dictionary writers to describe the language accurately and to give examPles that are based on genuine, present-day writing and speech. The Cambridge Dictionary of American English has a number of features that make it a very. user-friendly dictionary: GUIDEWORDS help you f'md the meaning of a word you are looking for; LANGUAGE PORTRAITS explain the complexities of English, from '~ddresses" to "Zero"; IDIOMS and COMPOUNDS are defined within the entry for their first important word; the IDIOMS INDEX helps you find an idiom even if you only can remember part of it; USAGE LABELS tell you when a word is appropriate, and when it is not; USAGE NOTES give additional information about a word; and FULL COVERAGE of the words and phrases that students of American English will want to look up. Every effort has been made to make this book the most accurate, realistic, up-to-date, and help-ful tool of its kind. Like many types of tools, it will become even more useful as you become morefamiliar with it. The following pages explain the various features of CDAE and how to make thedictionary work for you. We hope this book will help you to master the challenging languageknown as English, so that your usage will help influence the ways in which it changes and growsduring the 21st century.Paul HeacockManaging EditorJune 1999
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可以学到地道的美式英语，适合母语非英语的人学习，考托福要看外国人编写的词典，英文原版的很贵，这个版的价格还行，总之买了不后悔。