Charles Harrington Elster is a writer, broadcaster, and logophile—a lover of words.
He is the author and narrator of the audio vocabulary-building program Verbal Advantage and the book by the same name. His other books include Tooth and Nail and Test of Time, vocabulary-building novels for high school students preparing to take the college entrance exams; There's a Word for It, a lighthearted look at unusual—and unusually useful—words; and The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, which William Safire of The New York Times hailed as "the best survey of the spoken field in years." In 2005 Harcourt published What in the Word? Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions About Language, and in 2006 Houghton Mifflin released the second edition of The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, featuring nearly 200 new entries.
Charlie was pronunciation editor of the seventh and eighth editions of Black's Law Dictionary and a consultant for Garner's Modern American Usage. He is a guest contributor to the "On Language" column of The New York Times Magazine, and his articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, and other publications.
Charlie has also been talking about language on the radio since 1985. He has been interviewed on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition, and All Things Considered and been a guest on hundreds of radio shows around the country. For five and a half years he cohosted a weekly public radio talk show on language called A Way with Words.
Charlie was born in New York City in 1957 and earned his B.A. cum laude from Yale in 1981. He lives in San Diego with his wife and two daughters.
到底要有多大的词汇量才能开始看原版书?单词记了忘,忘了记怎么办?有什么诀窍来对付英文考试吗?这是许多人都关心的问题。 但归根结底,如果你能回答——词汇到底有多重要?这个问题,那么以上的问题想必就迎刃而解了。 词汇之于的阅读的重要性,就好比嗅觉之于享受大餐一...
評分很棒的词汇书,好像光说是词汇书还不够全面,可以说是将英语作为交流工具的再升华吧,400多页,10 levels,总过就500个左右,但是每个单词,由其引申出的词汇就够读书者研究很久了。 作为读者,推荐大家可以先看Longman里面的Communication 3000和Academic Word List,都是最...
評分 評分这本书最适合用来复习巩固,不太适合做词汇学习的初始材料。 如果看本书之前没有系统学习过英语的词汇(是“学习” 而不是“背”单词),那么学习本书的过程中很容易放弃,因为读懂每一个单词的英文释义都需要同级别的其它词汇。阅读一旦卡壳,就容易半途而废。词汇...
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评分不知何時買的,一直沒讀,沒想到一讀就驚為天人
评分不知何時買的,一直沒讀,沒想到一讀就驚為天人
评分不知何時買的,一直沒讀,沒想到一讀就驚為天人
评分誠品暢銷書名不虛傳!重讀中~
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