The English-Chinese Dictionary 2nd Ed. (Unabridged)

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This dictionary is expanded and revised from its 1991 edition and has about 220,000 detailed entries across the very widest spectrum of subject categories and nearly 240,000 examples offering insights into both the meaning and the grammatical usage. The entries contain the daily life words, abbreviations, affix, composite morphemes, words of foreign origin, names, places, organizations, historic events, religion and legend names, and terms of social sciences and natural sciences. This second edition has more than 20,000 new words reflecting the most up-to-date usage. 13 appendices are also included, some of them are: Guide to English Punctuation, Capitalization and Italicization, A List of English Personal Names and Their Meanings, A List of Network Abbreviations in English, Tables of Kana Romanized, and A List of the Events in the Summer Olympic Games.