本书取材自真实的语料库，涵盖5000核心词汇及大量衍生用法，基本扫除英语表达障碍。解说与练习左右对照。全书结构简明，将词汇分类解说，方便师生挑选所需内容。介绍学习技巧，帮助总结词汇规律，养成良好的学习习惯。目录清晰详细，说明每单元讲解的词汇种类，方便寻找所需内容。书中参考答案详尽全面，给学习者充分的信息。词汇索引将书中讲解的重要词汇按字母顺序列出，并标注书中位置，方便查找。本书附有音标表、常用习语、常见错误等，并提供丰富全面的参考资料。
本书是\"英语在用\"丛书之一，该系列丛书在全球畅销千万册，读者遍布世界各地，被誉为英语学习者的\"圣经\"。本书是英文版本的英语词汇参考书，包括对词汇构成（word formation）、连接词(connecting and linking)，并以专题(topics)分类词汇，方便读者集中记忆。本书是在中级词汇基础之上的更广的拓展，适合高级学习者使用。
Acknowledgements
Using this book
Introduction
1 Learning vocabulary- general advice
2 Learning vocabulary- aids to learning
3 Organising a vocabulary notebook
4 The names of English language words
5 Using your dictionary
6 Revising vocabulary
7 Formal and informal words
Word formation
8 Suffixes (e.g. actor， permission， modernise)
9 Prefixes (e.g. over-worked， exhale)
10 Roots (e.g. impress， pressure， expression)
11 Abstract nouns (e.g. faith， hope and love）
12 Compound adjectives (e.g. well-dressed， time-consuming)
13 Compound nouns- combinations of two nouns (e.g. baby-sitter， youth hostel.)
14 Compound nouns - combinations of verb + preposition (e.g. drawback， input)
15 Words with interesting origins- people and places (e.g. hooligan， denim)
16 Words with interesting origins- from other languages (e.g. bistro， rucksack)
17 Onomatopoeic words - words that sound like their meaning (e.g. grumble， smash)
18 Words commonly mispronounced (e.g. worry， cough)
19 Homonyms - words pronounced and/or spelt the same (e.g. row， row; bow， bough)
Connecting and linking
Countables and uncountables
Topics
Notional concepts
Feelings and actions
Fixed expressions
Phrasal verbs and verb-based expressions
Varieties of English
Key
List of phonetic symbols
Index
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