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出版社:BANTAM BOOKS
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ISBN:0553287699
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作者:Sidney I.Landau編
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頁數:804
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出版日期:1977-01-01
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印刷日期:1990-01-01
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包裝:平裝
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版次:3
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印次:1
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Now it's easier than ever to find just the right word--to make your writing assignment or speech sparkle or to add new degrees of precision to your vocabulary. Here's an alphabetical listing of synonyms and antonyms, as easy to use as a dictionary, that gets words from the "tip of your tongue" to your fingertips--quickly!
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American thesauruses generally fall into two categories: the
voluminous, subject-indexed variety and the brief, alphabetically
arranged dictiouary-style book. Many people find the subject-index
thesaurus difficult to use because the breakdown of senses is
overrefined and overlapping.One must often turn to two or three
places to find synonyms for any one sense,and even so one
frequently finds few apt synonyms and much redundancy, as well as
a hodgepodge of antiquated cliches, phrases that are really brief
definitions rather then synonyms, and words so artificially
composed of Latin or Greek elements that it would be safe to say
they have appeared nowhere else other than in thesauruses. On the
other hand, the shorter,ulphabetical thesauruses often give too
few synonyms to be helpful.One is trapped between the Scylla of
parsimony and the Charybdis of overabundance.
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Preface Guide to the Use of This Thesaurus The Thesaurus
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