This dictionary has been compiled with constant reference to the Bank ofEnglish，a unique database containing over 524 million words of written andspoken English，enabling Collins Iexicographers to analyse how the languageiS actually used and how lt iS changin9．The Bank of English was set up as ajoint initiative by HarperCollins Publishers and the University of Birminqhamto be a resource for language research and Iexicography．It contains a verywide range of materiaI from books,newspapers，radio,TV，magazines．1ettersand talks，thereby reflecting the whole spectrum of English today．Its size andrange make it an unequalled resource．and the purpose—built SOftware for itsanalysis iS unique to Collins dictionaries． This ensures that Collins dictionaries accurately reflect English as it is usedtoday in a way that is most helpful to the dictionary user．
Foxton Readers是一套针对ESL/EAL学习者精心分级的读物，支持从入门级到高级的学生使用。这套读物基于全面的语法和词汇框架，帮助学生平均地提升各项能力，并能确保每个学生的进步。它们不仅适合ESL/EAL学生，也可以用于小学和中学年龄的母语学习者。 ^_^:1f7fcaa544323ffd5d675717824f1034
Esteemed poet, translator, critic, and author of children's books, John Ciardi devoted a good part of his later literary career to the "word rambles" that, collected in his Browser's Dictionaries, take us on a wonderfully winding path through the landscape of language. His three compendiums of curious expressions and intriguing facts are enlivened by a reader's inquisitiveness and a writer's ingenuity. In these pages you'll discover the bitter herb at the root of sardonic, the Biblical fly in the ointment, what provides the pleasure in happy as a clam, and hundreds of other insights into our linguistic heritage. Also available in Common Reader Editions: A Browser's Dictionary and A Second Browser's Dictionary.
Foxton Readers是一套针对ESL/EAL学习者精心分级的读物，支持从入门级到高级的学生使用。这套读物基于全面的语法和词汇框架，帮助学生平均地提升各项能力，并能确保每个学生的进步。它们不仅适合ESL/EAL学生，也可以用于小学和中学年龄的母语学习者。 ^_^:92efeb697335d6c5dc7373cd5a42a3ae
This handy bilingual dictionary contains all of the 2000or so Bahasa Malaysia words most commonly used in everydayspeech．Designed especially with the traveler in mind,it providesquick and easy access to essentiao vocabulary needed when you wantto ask directions．bargain for goods．or carry on a simpleconversation．A brief spelling and pbonunc8at50n guide is includedto help you to understand and pronounce Bahasa Malaysiacorrectly．
