出版社: Broadway Books
出版年: 2004-9-14
ISBN: 9780767910439
页数: 256
装帧: Paperback
定价: USD 14.00
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One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage.
As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves togethe...
One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage.
As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word ‘set’ has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participial adjective; where if you can run fast you are moving swiftly, but if you are stuck fast you are not moving at all; [and] where ‘colonel,’ ‘freight,’ ‘once,’ and ‘ache’ are strikingly at odds with their spellings.” As a copy editor for the London Times in the early 1980s, Bill Bryson felt keenly the lack of an easy-to-consult, authoritative guide to avoiding the traps and snares in English, and so he brashly suggested to a publisher that he should write one. Surprisingly, the proposition was accepted, and for “a sum of money carefully gauged not to cause embarrassment or feelings of overworth,” he proceeded to write that book–his first, inaugurating his stellar career.
Now, a decade and a half later, revised, updated, and thoroughly (but not overly) Americanized, it has become Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words , more than ever an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language. With some one thousand entries, from “a, an” to “zoom,” that feature real-world examples of questionable usage from an international array of publications, and with a helpful glossary and guide to pronunciation, this precise, prescriptive, and–because it is written by Bill Bryson–often witty book belongs on the desk of every person who cares enough about the language not to maul or misuse or distort it.
From the Hardcover edition.
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words的创作者
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比尔·布莱森 作者
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比尔·布莱森 (Bill Bryson)
布莱森是英国著名的非虚构作家,英国国宝级作家,英国皇家学会荣誉院士,詹姆斯·乔伊斯奖、塞缪尔·约翰逊奖等多个文学奖获得者。
他曾任英国杜伦大学校长,取得两所大学的文学博士学位、九所英国知名大学的荣誉博士学位。早年曾供职于泰晤士报、独立报,同时也为《纽约时报》《国家地理杂志》等撰文。
尤其擅长人文历史、科普、游记类的写作。代表作有《万物简史》《人体简史》等。其中,科普巨著《万物简史》全球销量超千万,简体中文销量破百万,中文版《人体简史》荣获2020年第十六届文津图书奖。
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0 有用 女皇陛下 2018-10-30 17:24:08
bill bryson得五星不需要解释。最有趣的英文现代作家,没有之一。这也侧面说明了他对英文掌握程度。看他的字典没错啦。
0 有用 arkansas 2022-08-10 14:15:21
很全面,词法发音标点语法都有涉及,but should be taken with a pinch of salt,作者的个人喜好挺明显,有些表达只是语言现象却被说得一无是处,还很让人无语地试图“矫正”英语。
0 有用 Jasonius 2025-10-31 15:11:54 北京
这才是英文系该读的书.jpg
0 有用 serotinous 2011-10-06 14:02:38
如果真的像作者说的,英语缺乏一种统一的学院式标准,而只是遵循传统与习惯的话(怎么搞得跟英国的不成文宪法一样……),那不就没有语法学家的用武之地了么,也不存在unacceptable了,至多是not accepted yet……
0 有用 悬浮的毛绒馅饼 2021-11-29 00:56:42
高产嗦饭人产出来的东西都有点软。情有可原。