註釋
A dictionary that opens the door to American English idioms. Whether you want to plumb the depths of idiomatic phrases or just be turned in to current phrases like living large and walk the walk and talk the talk , this is the book will spell it out for you. Key features: • Complete- includes more than 5,500 idioms that are used in current newspaper, magazines and books; on radio and TV; on Web pages and in formal conversation • Clear-contains simple, easy-to-understand definitions and more than 1,000 usage notes that explain what idioms mean and how they are used in American English today • Attractive-features a two-color page design that makes it easy to use and colorful illustrations that bring idioms to life • Real-illustrates how idioms are really used, with more than 8,000 example sentences taken from the Cambridge International Corpus, a database that contains over 200 million words of spoken and written American English • Useful-includes two special features that enhance usability: a Study Section that groups idioms by function words, use and part of the body and a Subject Index that lets you look for idioms in more than two dozen categories (such as behavior, death, and emotional condition)