This reader-friendly volume contains more than 12,000 famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author. It is unique in its focus on American quotations and its inclusion of items not only from literary and historical sources but also from popular culture, sports, computers, science, politics, law, and the social sciences. Anonymously authored items appear in sections devoted to folk songs, advertising slogans, television catchphrases, proverbs, and others. For each quotation, a source and first date of use is cited. In many cases, new research for this book has uncovered an earlier date or a different author than had previously been understood. (It was Beatrice Kaufman, not Sophie Tucker, who exclaimed, “I’ve been poor and I’ve been rich. Rich is better!” William Tecumseh Sherman wasn’t the originator of “War is hell!” It was Napoleon.) Numerous entries are enhanced with annotations to clarify meaning or context for the reader. These interesting annotations, along with extensive cross-references that identify related quotations and a large keyword index, will satisfy both the reader who seeks specific information and the curious browser who appreciates an amble through entertaining pages.
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary and Thesaurus for BABYLON
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Get single-click access to America's best selling resource for the English language. With the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary and Thesaurus on Babylon you gain simple and intuitive access to over 225,000 definitions and 340,000 synonyms and antonyms. Single Click Activation Just click on any text in any desktop application and a small pop-up window appears with the relevant translation, information or conversion.
Книга, состоящая из десяти тематических разделов, содержит образцы писем, касающихся разных ситуаций, возникающих при ведении научной и деловой переписки; в них использованы слова, словосочетания и выражения, характерные для корреспонденции на английском языке. С целью закрепления лексики и грамматики в книгу включен материал для перевода как с английского на русский, так и с русского на английский, а также русско-английский словарь.
The book consists of ten chapters, contains samples of letters relating to various situations that arise in the conduct of scientific and business correspondence, they used words, phrases and expressions characteristic of the correspondence in English.
This includes more than 1,800 of the most frequently used idioms in contemporary British English, each with at least two example sentences. Compiled with non-native speakers in mind, the entire collection is compressed into a pocket-size edition.
