Англо-русский, русско-английский словарь с транскрипцией в обеих частях

Настоящий словарь содержит около 120 000 слов и словосочетаний, которые наиболее часто употребляются в современных русском и английском языках. Помимо обычной лексики, представлено множество слов и выражений разговорной, научной и специализированной тематики. Для наиболее ясного понимания произношения слов в словарных статьях обеих частей словаря приводится транскрипция, основанная на нормах общепринятого транскрибирования. Словарь будет полезен переводчикам, преподавателям, научным сотрудникам, школьникам и студентам различных вузов.

Whereas a witticism is a clever remark or phrase -- indeed, the height of expression -- a "dimwitticism" is the converse; it is a commonplace remark or phrase. Dimwitticisms are worn-out words and phrases; they are expressions that dull our reason and dim our insight, formulas that we rely on when we are too lazy to express what we think or even to discover how we feel. The more we use them, the more we conform -- in thought and feeling -- to everyone else who uses them.

Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English: A Compendium of Mistakes in Grammar, Usage, and Spelling with commentary on lexicographers and linguists.

 

Today's popular dictionaries often fail to define words correctly or to distinguish between them; some dictionaries even maintain that one word means the same as another simply because people who do not know the correct meanings of the words confuse them. Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English -- a supplement to whatever dictionary you own or use -- is an attempt to combat this nonsense, to return meaning and distinction to the words we use. 

This reference book, containing the biographies of more than 1,100 notable British women from Boudicca to Barbara Castle, is an absorbing record of female achievement spanning some 2,000 years of British life. Most of the lives included are those of women whose work took them in some way before the public and who therefore played a direct and important role in broadening the horizons of women.

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