 |
| Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases |
Book Description :
The materials of this work were originally collated in Japan to assist my students in their English studies, and a Japanese edition of the Dictionary appeared in the year 1888. The phrases that recur so often in English books and in conversation, conveying a meaning to the native English ear which a rational dissection of their component parts quite fails to supply, had not previously been collected in a handy volume.
An excellent work, it is true, by a Chinaman, Kwong's Dictionary of English Phrases, came out about ten years ago. The author received in its compilation valuable help from eminent American scholars, and its definitions and examples are excellent.
Til the present volume, instead of attempting to divide the work into chapters treating of "colloquial phrases", "cant phrases," " slang phrases," and so forth, I have thrown the whole into alphabetical form, and have marked by letters the category to which, in my opinion, the phrases ought to belong.
The division I have chosen is fourfold, and in a descending scale of dignity: Prose, Conversational, Familiar, Slang. By Prose (P) phrases, I understand such phrases as Macaulay or Matthew Arnold might use in their serious writings.
Familiar (F) phrases are less dignified, and are only in place where we are speaking unreservedly among intimates. At least eighty per cent, of the phrases are freshly gathered.
LINK DOWNLOAD
HOTFILE
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar