Longman Advanced American Dictionary (New edition)

摘要

The back cover blurb tells us that the Longman Advanced American Dictionary is "the dictionary for academic success" and has "everything you need to succeed", namely: 185,000 words, and phrases and meanings; 73,000 natural examples (which) show words in context; (the facility to) expand your vocabulary (by) using the thesaurus boxes; 5,000 etymologies (to) help you learn the origin of words; and 10,000 synonyms and antonyms (forgive me for supplying the grammar!). I do not question these impressive statistics, but this is a difficult dictionary to use and I suggest that anyone who can understand how to use it will have already have achieved academic success! Forgive my sarcasm, but students faced with this 2,000-page monster will need no little measure of "stickability" to understand what it was they wanted.