内容简介
WithinnovationssuchasDefinitionsPLUSandvocabularybuilders,theCollinsCOBUILDIntermediateDictionaryofAmericanEnglishtransformsthelearner'sdictionaryfromanoccasionalreferenceintotheultimateresourceandmust-havedictionaryforlanguagelearners.Thedefinitionshavebeencreatedusingacontrolledvocabulary,andeachdefinitionhasbeenreviewedbyateamofclassroomteacherstoensurethattheyareappropriateforlearnersattheintermediatelevel.作者简介:Throughacollaborativeinitiative,CollinsCOBUILDandHeinleareco-publishingadynamicnewlineoflearner'sdictionariesofferingunparalleledpedagogyandlearners'resources.ThefirstCollinsCOBUILDdictionarywaspublishedin1987,thanksinparttoJohnSinclair,oneoftheveryfirstmoderncorpuslinguistswhopersonallyoversawthecreationoftheBankofEnglish.EveryCOBUILDdictionaryisbasedontheBankofEnglish,ahugeelectronicdatabaseofbothwrittenandspokenlanguage,whichtodaycontainsover650millionwords.