NEW ENGLISH-CHINESE DICTIONARY
Shanghai 1979
Some definite wear from age and use, complete and very legible!
Google translated from one of the first pages:
The "New English-Chinese Dictionary" contains a total of more than 50,000 entries. Together with the derived words and compound words listed within
the entries, the actual number of words included is more than 80,000 (including basic vocabulary, general vocabulary, scientific and technological terms, abbreviations, loanwords, place names, etc.). In addition, more than 14,000 idioms (including a few proverbs) are included in relevant entries. At the end of the book, there are eight appendices including "List of Common British and American Names". But the local officials do not tolerate the realm lord. The "New English-Chinese Dictionary" pay attention to words and examples that reflect my country's socialist revolution and socialist construction, and also pays attention to common words that reflect Western capitalist society, politics, life and other aspects. In addition, a certain number of new words and new usages have been selected from English, American English dictionaries, and newspapers and periodicals from the United Kingdom and the United States.
In order to take into account the requirements of both understanding and use, the definitions of words should be included as much as possible within the scope of the medium-sized dictionary, and efforts should be made to indicate the part of speech and the collocation relationship when used through the wording of the definition; for For some difficult or commonly used words, more examples will be given to illustrate their meaning and usage. During the compilation, I have referred to various English-Chinese dictionaries, English and American dictionaries, and scientific and technological dictionaries published at home and abroad, and learned some useful materials from them. The sources are not indicated one by one in the dictionaries.
More than 70 comrades from the Foreign Languages Department of Fudan University, the Foreign Languages Department of Shanghai Normal University, the Shanghai International Studies University, as well as factories, schools, institutions, research institutes, design institutes and other units have participated in the compilation of the "New English-Chinese Dictionary". The compilation work of "New English-Chinese Dictionary" began in the autumn of 1970, and the sixteenth edition was published in
the spring of 1975. Since December 1976, the 32nd reduced edition has been published successively. Due to time and conditions constraints, this reprint
can only make a small amount of modifications to the original version.
Shanghai Translation Publishing House
March 1979