Choose the Right Word
出版时间
1994-04-22
ISBN
9780062731319
评分
★★★★★
书籍介绍
This unique blend of thesaurus, dictionary, and manual of English usage defines, compares, and contrasts words of similar but not identical meaning--such as "infer" and "imply". More than 6,000 synonyms are included. "Recommended."-- Booklist.
精彩摘录
- "These nouns all refer to makers or constnctors ofproducts at some level below that of artistic creation. An artisan falls midwav between the full-scale artist who creates single inimitable works and the mere worker who turns out identical, anonymous products: Italian artisans were brought to New Yor"
- "Artificer still can suggest its earliest meaning of a worker who possesses mechanical facility: the artificer in an infantry company who cares for and repairs its weapons. In other uses artificer had begun to sound fusty until James Jovce reintroduced the word in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ma"
- "Craftsman has risen somewhat in the scale to theartist end of the spectrum since the advent ofmachine-made objects in the nineteenth century: Replaced by factories, the furniture maker, the book-binder, the dyer, and the weaver were all skilled craftsmen whose century-old secrets were lost duringthe"
用户评论
应该是同类词典中数一数二的了。作为一个强迫症者，对作文和译文中的遣词不容疏漏，所以对于同义词辨析十分重视。这本词典可以解决大部分的同义词辨析，但流畅阅读需要一定词汇量，适合高阶学习者阅读。Anyway，you can have a try.
这其实是一本字典。
《英语同义词大全》就是以这个为蓝本
我，终于做完笔记了( ᵒ̴̶̥́ωᵒ̴̶̣̥̀ )
出书。。。走海鲜市场66元
工作以后回头看，此书不如compact的韦小黄帮助大。
很厚枕着很舒服。
非常实用，虽然词不是很多，但每个词微妙的差别解释得十分到位。
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