分享一本pdf格式的词典书《Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words》

aidixiao · 发表于 2017-5-18 11:18:42

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简介：
What is the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure? With "Troublesome Words", journalist and bestselling travel-writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear, concise and entertaining guide to the problems of English usage and spelling that has been an indispensable companion to those who work with the written word for over twenty years. So if you want to discover whether you should care about split infinitives, are cursed with an uncontrollable outbreak of commas or were wondering if that newsreader was right to say 'an historic day', this superb book is the place to find out.

作者是一个有语言洁癖的人，在大量参考语言学者（Fowler,Gowers）的基础上，作者指出当前英文写作中易犯的一些错误，而这些错误无不来自西方权威媒体，包括NYT,Times,Washington Post等等。对于想要提高英文写作（编辑）水平的人而言不可或缺。