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aFREQUENCY dictionaryof
CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN ENGLISH
word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists
Mark Davies
Dee Gardner
Practical: the top 5,000 most frequently-used words in American English
Insightful: the most frequent collocates show the meaning and use of each word
Useful: thematic boxes give the top words for 30 speci?c topics
A Frequency Dictionary of
Contemporary American English
A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English is an invaluable tool for all
learners of American English, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words
in the language.
The dictionary is based on data from a 385-million-word corpus―evenly balanced
between spoken English
unscripted conversation from radio and TV shows , fiction
books, short stories, movie scripts , more than 100 popular magazines, ten newspapers,
and 100 academic journals―for a total of nearly 150,000 texts.
All entries in the rank frequency list feature the top 20C30 collocates
nearby words
for that word, which provide valuable insight into the meaning and usage. Alphabetical
and part of speech indexes are provided for ease of use. The dictionary also contains
31 thematically organized and frequency-ranked lists of words on a variety of topics, such
as family, sports, and food. New words in the language, differences between American and
British English, and grammar topics such as the most frequent phrasal verbs are also
A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English is an engaging and efficient
resource enabling students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary.
It is also a rich resource for language teaching, research, curriculum design, and materials
development.
Mark Davies is Professor and Dee Gardner is Associate Professor, both at the Department
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&　　今天和小编一同来学习翻译练习:word与words 加了s就大不同.希望对大家有帮助。　　【翻译例句】　　Bob never has words with his neighbours.　　翻译×：鲍勃从不与他的邻居说话。　　翻译√：鲍勃从来不与他的邻居吵嘴。　　【分析】　　have words with someone是习语，意思为“与某人吵嘴”。应注意与习语have a word with one辨别开来，后者才是“与某人谈话”。两者的区别是：前者的word取复数形式，无冠词，后者取单数形式，带不定冠词a——这个需要好好记住哦。　　另外，word还可以表达“承诺”：　　Take my word for it. 相信我，没错的。　　You've got my word/I'll give you my word. 我向你保证。　　He is a man of his word. 他是一个一诺千金的人。　　那么word还有别的意思吗?有的：　　Word has it that he is still alive. 有消息说他还活着。　　He's sent word that he would not come home till June. 他传了口信，说六月份再回家。　　看到啦，一个小小的word也有各种意思，这些用法记得区分不要混淆哦，最好能记住并熟练运用，小词一样可以派上大用场!　　每天挤45分钟攻克吧，其实学习一门语言并不是难事，关键在于持之以恒。　　不论是报考还是上海中的同学们，平时的积累是通过考试的一种方法。所以平时要多阅读一些和有关的内容以及背景知识，同时也欢迎同学们关注新东方在线论坛口译频道。
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Robert McCrum, William Cran, & Robert MacNeil. The Story of English. New York: Penguin, 1992: 1
&The statistics of English are astonishing. Of all the world's languages (which now number some 2,700), it is arguably the richest in vocabulary. The compendious Oxford English Dictionary lists about 500,000 and a further half-million technical and scientific terms remain uncatalogued. According to traditional estimates, neighboring German has a vocabulary of about 185,000 and French fewer than 100,000, including such Franglais as le snacque-barre and le hit-parade.&
500,000&words1,000,000&words(including scientific words)
Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 10. Grolier, 1999.
&The vocabulary has grown from the 50,000 to 60,000 words in Old English to the tremendous number of entries -- 650,000 to 750,000 -- in an unabridged dictionary of today.&
650–750,000&words
Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, Volume 1. Oxford University Press, 1989.
&In addition to the headwords of main entries, the Dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives in bold type, and 169,000 phrases and combinations in bold italic type, making a total of 616,500 word-forms.&
616,500&words
Webster's Third New International Dictionary. G&C Merriam Co., 1971.
&This dictionary has a vocabulary of over 450,000 words.&
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Wilton, David. ? Wilton's Word & Phrase Origins. 7&February&2001.
&The OED2, the largest English-language dictionary, contains some 290,000 entries with some 616,500 word forms.&
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Have you ever encountered a person who just keeps on rambling
on and on with no end in sight. If you have, you might have wondered
if he/she would ever run out of words to say. Unfortunately, that
will remain a dream for all of us.
As we enter the Twenty First Century, English is the most widely
spoken and written language on Earth. English was first spoken
in Britain by Germanic tribes in Fifth Century AD also known as
the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) period. During the Middle English
period (&AD), a lot of the Old English word endings were
replaced by prepositions like by, with, and from. We are now in
the Modern English period which started in the Sixteenth Century.
The number of words in English has grown from 50,000 to 60,000
words in Old English to about a million today. There are a number
of ways in which the English vocabulary increases. The principal
way in which it grows is by borrowing words from other languages.
About 80% of the entries in any English dictionary are borrowed,
mainly from Latin. Another way is by combining words into one
word such as housewife, greenhouse, and overdue. The addition
of prefixes and suffixes to words also increases the immense vocabulary
of the English language.
Today, more than 750 million people use the English language.
An average educated person knows about 20,000 words and uses about
2,000 words in a week. Despite its widespread use, there are only
about 350 million people who use it as their mother tongue. It
is the official language of the Olympics. More than half of the
world's technical and scientific periodicals as well three quarters
of the world's mail, and its telexes and cables are in English.
About 80% of the information stored in the world's computers (such
as this text) are also in English. English is also transmitted
to more than 100 million people everyday by 5 of the largest broadcasting
companies (CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, CBC). It seems like English will
remain the most widely used language for some time.
Johnny Ling -- 2001
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