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1、朗文词典注释所用2000核心词汇集TheLongmanDefiningVocabularyWordsusedinthedefinitionsinthisdictionaryAllthedefinitionsinthisdictionaryhavebeenwrittenusingthewordsinthislist.Ifadefinitionincludesawordthatisnotinthelist,thatwordisshowninsmallcapitalletters.TheDefiningVocabularyhasbee
2、ncarefullychosenafterathoroughstudyofallthewell-knownfrequencylistsofEnglishwords.Furthermore,onlythemostcommonand‘entral’meaningsofthewordsinthelisthaveactuallybeenusedindefinitions.Wehavealsousedaspecialcomputerprogramthatcheckseveryentrytoensurethatwordsfromoutsid
3、etheDefiningVocabularydonotappearindefinitions.WordclassrestrictionsForsomewordsinthelist,awordclasslabelsuchasnoradjisshown.Thismeansthatthisparticularwordisusedindefinitionsonlyinthewordclassshown.Soanger,forexample,isusedonlyasanounandnotasaverb.Butifnowordclassis
4、shownforaword,itcanbeusedinanyofitsusualwordclasses:answer,forexample,isusedindefinitionsbothasanounandasaverb.CompoundwordsDefinitionsoccasionallyincludecompoundwordsformedfromwordsintheDefiningVocabulary,butthisisonlydoneifthemeaningiscompletelyclear.Forexample,the
5、wordbusinessman(formedfrombusinessandman)isusedinsomedefinitions.PrefixesandsuffixesThemainlistisfollowedbyalistofcommonprefixesandsuffixes.Thesecanbeaddedtowordsinthemainlisttoformderivedwords,providedthemeaningiscompletelyclear.Forexample,thewordnervousness(formedb
6、yadding-nesstonervous)isusedinsomedefinitions.PhrasalverbsPhrasalverbsformedbycombiningwordsintheDefiningVocabulary(forexample,putupwith)arenotusedindefinitionsinthedictionary,exceptinaverysmallnumberofcaseswherethephrasalverbisextremelycommonandthereisnocommonequiva
7、lent.So,forexample,giveup(asingiveupsmoking)andtakeoff(asintheplanetookoff)areoccasionallyused.PropernamesTheDefiningVocabularydoesnotincludethenamesofactualplaces,nationalities,religions,andsoon,whichareoccasionallymentionedindefinitions.PearsonEducationLimited1999A
8、totalof2043words,byQxleeAaabbreviationabilityableaboutaboveadv,prepabroadabsenceabsentadjacceptacceptableaccidentaccidentalaccordin
