Roget'sThesaurusofEnglishWordsandPhrases

作者 George Davidson著
出版社 Penguin;150AnniversaryEd
出版时间 2004年8月
ISBN 9780140515039
定价 130.40

内容简介

"Roget'sThesaurus"ranksasoneofthegreatestEnglishlanguagereferenceworks,usedforgenerationsbyanyonelookingforhelpinordertowritealetter,prepareaspeech,solveacrossword,orwriteanymannerofproseorpoem.Itssalesexceed32millioncopies.Thiseditionhasbeenrevisedandupdatedtoincludeallthelatestbuzzwordsandphrases.Inaddition,thisneweditionofRogetcontainsusefulpanelsofadditionalinformationthatincludesuchnuggetsofinformationassignsofthezodiacandtheoriginsoffamiliarquotationsthathavebecomeanintegralpartofoureverydaylanguage.

作者简介

PeterMarkRogetcreatedaclassedcatalogueofwordsonasmallscalein1805forhisownuseasawriterandlecturer.However,itwasonlyafterretiringfromthedutiesofSecretaryoftheRoyalSocietythathewasabletoamplifythevolumeandcreatethenowfamous1852edition.Sincethen,Roget'sThesaurushasbeenupdatedmanytimes,butRoget'soriginalclassificationsystemforthebookhasstoodthetestoftimeandisstillusedtoday.GeorgeDavidsonisahighlyexperiencededitorandlexicographer,andaformersenioreditoratChambersHarrap.Heeditedthe150thanniversaryeditionofRogetandiscurrentlywritingaPocketRogetThesaurus.HelivesinEdinburgh.

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