Word Smart--Let your vocabulary speak for itself！

Demorngel · 发表于 2016-5-26 23:24:57

本帖最后由 Demorngel 于 2016-5-26 23:31 编辑

比较有特色的一本单词书，最新的是12年出的第五版。这本书在第一章"Learning New Words"里介绍了怎样查词典，介绍了一个词条里每一部分的内容是什么，怎么用，还有怎么使用thesaurus和词源（这个很少见），最后给出了一些单词记忆的方法。第二章主要讲解单词，释义主要取自“American Heritage Dictionary"、”Webster's Third New International Dictionary"、"M-W College Dictionary"和“Random House College Dictionary"，非常简洁，然后是例句、用法和一些常见错误，类似于Vocabulary.com上面的说文解字，但是没有词源信息，趣味性可能低了些。之后的章节主要是测试，词根，常见的错误用法和学科术语、缩略语等.

章节信息如下：
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Introduction
Chapter 1:        Learning New Words
Chapter 2:        The Words
Chapter 3:        The Final Exam
Chapter 4:        The SAT Hit Parade
Chapter 5:        The GRE Hit Parade
Chapter 6:        Word Roots You Should Know
Chapter 7:        Common Usage Errors
Chapter 8:        Abbreviations
Chapter 9:        The Arts
Chapter 10:      Finance
Chapter 11:      Foreign Words and Phrases
Chapter 12:      Science
Chapter 13:      The Answers
About the Author

Let your vocabulary speak for itself.

Knowing which words to use and how to use them is key to communicating accurately and effectively. That’s why more than one million people have used Word Smart to improve their vocabularies! This updated 5th edition defines and explains more than 1,400 need-to-know vocabulary words.

To create this book, the Princeton Review analyzed newspapers from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal, magazines from Time to Scientific American, and books from current bestsellers to classics. We also combed through the SAT and other standardized tests to determine which words are tested most frequently. We sifted out the words that most people know, and focused on words that most people misunderstand or misuse.

This updated edition of Word Smart gives you the most important words you need to know to get better grades, score higher on tests, and communicate more confidently at work.

WORD SMART, 5th EDITION include more than 1,400 words covering:
• Common usage errors
• The most frequently tested words on standardized tests
• Foreign phrases and abbreviations
• Terms you need to know to understand finance, science, and the arts

Littlebush · 发表于 2016-5-26 23:29:49

又发现了一个后面接动名词修饰的名词key to doing，

waynewang1975 · 发表于 2016-5-27 08:45:41

thank you very much

mdictmania · 发表于 2016-5-29 02:14:44

Thank you so much

秋天故事 · 发表于 2016-5-31 14:53:24

感谢分享。下载看看~~

lovekaede · 发表于 2016-6-10 07:30:51

谢谢分享，看了原文，感觉自己的英语水平还没到直接阅读的程度。
等近期单词背完后再试试

wolfgang · 发表于 2016-12-8 11:13:23

准备去Amazon买套正版来瞧瞧，感谢楼主的分享。

ren3210 · 发表于 2017-6-18 21:02:53

thanks a lot

ren3210 · 发表于 2017-6-18 21:04:19

期待电子版

hmkenny · 发表于 2018-10-26 15:25:51

不知道能不能读懂，但是可以试一下，希望读完能学到东西

[英英] Word Smart--Let your vocabulary speak for itself！