略评《牛津英语习语词典》(英汉双解版)——牛津大学出版社首次推出的双解版英语习语词典

A Brief Review of Oxford Idioms Dictionary of English and Chinese

纵观《牛津英语习语词典》的总体设计和微观结构,它的特色主要体现在设计科学、信息丰富、释义精彩和简洁实用四个方面,但同时词典在前面部分(体例、条目、参见)、中间部分(收词、语法语用标注和翻译)和后面部分(附录)中存在不足之处,需要改进。

Oxford Idioms Dictionary embodies the features of an excellent learner＇ s dictionary. The article explores four merits of the dictionary namely specifically defined scientific design, extensive information, concise translation and practicality via the analysis of its macrostructure and microstructure tition in examples, inappropriate translation of definition and . Meanwhile, some of the deficits such as the entry, the repeexamples, appendix, etc. are pointed out in the front matter, middle matter and back matter respectively.