York Petit Dictionnaire Francais - Anglais/Anglais - Francais
تاريخ النشر: 01/01/1998
الناشر: مكتبة لبنان ناشرون
نبذة نيل وفرات:This new edition of a work which appeared for the first time in 1904 represents a departure from tradition in that it is not a revised version of its immediate prodecessor, but an entirely new work based on 'Cassell's New French Dictionary' compiled by Denis Girard and first published ...in 1962.
The availability of such a recent publication, and one moreover which has been widely accepted as a reliable work, has made the editors' task much easier than it could ever have been otherwise. The dead wood had already been cut away and many new words had been introduced, but it will come as no surprise that there are entries in the 'Concise' which do not appear in the 'New', e.g. 'escalate', and that others which were included in the 'New' for the first time in 1962 have already been discarded as obsolete, e.g. 'teddy boy'.
It is, of course, the question of selection which poses the greatest problem for anyone concerned with the compilation of a dictionary of limited size. Many uncommon words inevitably fail to find a place, as do the less frequent uses of some which have been included. We have tried wherever possible to illustrate by examples, but we have not attempted to incorporate informationn which properly belongs to a grammar book rather than a dictionary. It is assumed that the user will have a knowledge not only of parts of speech but also of the essential basic grammar of both languages. Although personal preference may have played a part, we have always tried to regard suitability for this type of dictionary as the primary consideration for or against the inclusion of a word, and we hope that we have, if anything, erred on the safe side.
Several features in the general layout of the 'New French Dictionary' have been incorporated for the first time in the 'Concise'. These include the use of the symbols of the International Phonetic Association throughout, the detailed information given in the 'Advice to the User' and the tables of English and French verbs. Completely new features are the notes at the head of the verb tables and the increased use of French in the explanatory parentheses in the English-French section. إقرأ المزيد