The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition：美国传统词典 第五版

Author/IllustratorBio:TheEditorsoftheAmericanHeritageDictionariesandofotherreferencetitlespublishedbyHoughtonMifflinHarcourtaretrainedlexicographerswithavariedarrayofinterestsandexpertise.Mostoftheeditorsholdgraduatedegreesandhavestudiedatleastoneforeignlanguage.SeveralhavedegreesinlinguisticsorinthehistoryoftheEnglishlanguage.Othershavedegreesinscienceorsometimesotherdisciplines.Alltheeditorsfamiliarizethemselveswiththevocabularyinspecificsubjectareas,collectmaterialsonnewdevelopmentsandusage,andworkinassociationwithconsultantstoensurethatthecontentofourpublicationsisasaccurateandasup-to-dateaspossible.http://www.hmhbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=2247651