Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words

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比爾·布萊森,世界知名的非虛構作傢,1951年齣生於美國艾奧瓦州,曾任職於倫敦《泰晤士報》與《獨立報》,同時也為《紐約時報》、《國傢地理雜誌》等撰文。作品主要包括旅遊類隨筆、幽默獨特的科普作品——比如《萬物簡史》、《母語》等等,橫跨多種領域,皆為非學院派的幽默之作。他的作品詼諧嘲謔的風格堪稱一絕,整體上舉重若輕,能讓普通讀者産生很強的認同感,不失為雅俗共賞的典範,深受讀者喜愛,也獲得很高的評價。每部作品均高踞美國、英國、加拿大暢銷排行榜前茅。

出版者:Broadway Books
作者:[美] 比爾·布萊森
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頁數:256
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出版時間:2004-9-14
價格:USD 14.00
裝幀:Paperback
isbn號碼:9780767910439
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One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage.

As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word ‘set’ has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participial adjective; where if you can run fast you are moving swiftly, but if you are stuck fast you are not moving at all; [and] where ‘colonel,’ ‘freight,’ ‘once,’ and ‘ache’ are strikingly at odds with their spellings.” As a copy editor for the London Times in the early 1980s, Bill Bryson felt keenly the lack of an easy-to-consult, authoritative guide to avoiding the traps and snares in English, and so he brashly suggested to a publisher that he should write one. Surprisingly, the proposition was accepted, and for “a sum of money carefully gauged not to cause embarrassment or feelings of overworth,” he proceeded to write that book–his first, inaugurating his stellar career.

Now, a decade and a half later, revised, updated, and thoroughly (but not overly) Americanized, it has become Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words , more than ever an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language. With some one thousand entries, from “a, an” to “zoom,” that feature real-world examples of questionable usage from an international array of publications, and with a helpful glossary and guide to pronunciation, this precise, prescriptive, and–because it is written by Bill Bryson–often witty book belongs on the desk of every person who cares enough about the language not to maul or misuse or distort it.

From the Hardcover edition.

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讀後感

評分

上豆瓣首页发现他的Notes from a Small Island中译本颇受好评。就去amazon.com上去找原著的评价,也很高。吊起我对那本书的胃口,顺着看他其他书的评价。看到mother tongue时两篇评论说书中很多错误,看起来还是比较可信的。这就让我怀疑这本书里的东西是不是可靠。当然这本书...

評分

上豆瓣首页发现他的Notes from a Small Island中译本颇受好评。就去amazon.com上去找原著的评价,也很高。吊起我对那本书的胃口,顺着看他其他书的评价。看到mother tongue时两篇评论说书中很多错误,看起来还是比较可信的。这就让我怀疑这本书里的东西是不是可靠。当然这本书...

評分

上豆瓣首页发现他的Notes from a Small Island中译本颇受好评。就去amazon.com上去找原著的评价,也很高。吊起我对那本书的胃口,顺着看他其他书的评价。看到mother tongue时两篇评论说书中很多错误,看起来还是比较可信的。这就让我怀疑这本书里的东西是不是可靠。当然这本书...

評分

上豆瓣首页发现他的Notes from a Small Island中译本颇受好评。就去amazon.com上去找原著的评价,也很高。吊起我对那本书的胃口,顺着看他其他书的评价。看到mother tongue时两篇评论说书中很多错误,看起来还是比较可信的。这就让我怀疑这本书里的东西是不是可靠。当然这本书...

評分

上豆瓣首页发现他的Notes from a Small Island中译本颇受好评。就去amazon.com上去找原著的评价,也很高。吊起我对那本书的胃口,顺着看他其他书的评价。看到mother tongue时两篇评论说书中很多错误,看起来还是比较可信的。这就让我怀疑这本书里的东西是不是可靠。当然这本书...

用戶評價

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作者本人的好惡比較明顯。有些地方是有趣的英語正在演變的趨勢,比如加入presently難道不是英語正在進一步丟失它的屈摺性的證據嗎,還有作者認為是redundancy的地方又有多少可以用強調去理解呢?

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作者本人的好惡比較明顯。有些地方是有趣的英語正在演變的趨勢,比如加入presently難道不是英語正在進一步丟失它的屈摺性的證據嗎,還有作者認為是redundancy的地方又有多少可以用強調去理解呢?

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有趣,不過同類的書實在太多瞭,即便是Bryson這樣的大學問傢也沒有辦法超越Fowler的神著。

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不虧是記者齣身 花十塊錢復印的。

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顯然作者最推崇的是簡潔的文風啊

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