英语迷津：相似词语辨析

　　英语里有大量形似而义异或义近的词语。在结构上，它们具有非常微妙的差别。在涵义上，它们有的互相接近，有的却大相径庭。《英语迷津：相似词语辨析》收集了170组常见的英语相似词语，先指出其异同和易于混淆之处，再说明其涵义和用法。每组词语附有适当的例句，以便读者比较和参考。《英语迷津：相似词语辨析》还通过一对对词语的比较，说明其他同一类型的相似词句的异同，使读者可以触类旁通，由此悟彼地联想到其他类似词语的关系和区别。

　　卢思源，广东中山人。英国语言文学教授。1956年毕业于复旦大学外文系英国语言文学专业。现任华东工业大学外语学院院长、上海市外文学会常务副会长、上海市科技翻译学会理事长、上海市社会科学学会联合会委员、上海大学外语学院顾问教授、世界外语导学中心名誉顾问等职。主要著述有：《英语陷阱——难句句式精解》（香港商务印书馆，1993年）、《英语短语动词用法词典》（主编，香港商务印书馆，1986年）、《英语联想和搭配词典》（与陆国强教授合著，香港商务印书馆，1989年）、（科技英语常用词语用法词典》（主编，上海外语教育出版社，1989年）、《大学生英汉词汇手册》（主编，福建人民出版社，1988年）、《工程师英语》（主编，中央电视大学出版社，1993年）、Fix-it-yoursef，Manual（主审，美国《读者文摘》远东分公司，1984年）、HousePlants（主审，美国《读者文摘》远东分公司，1985年）、《大学英语专业阅读精选系列教材》（六册，总主审，上海外语教育出版社，1994－1996年）、English for ForeignTrade in Mechanical and Electrical Industry（主审，上海科学技术文献出版社，1993年）、《大学生实用英汉词典》（主审，同济大学出版社，1996年）、New College English（主审，上海科学出版社，1996年）及Shanghais Journeyto Prosperity-from 1842 to 1949（主审，香港商务印书馆，1996年）。发表有：“EST as I See It”、“On the Rela.tion of Translatology to Grammar，Rhetoric，Semantics，Pragmatics and Other Linguistic Sciences”、“Subordination and Translation"、“Observations on theRendition of Chinese Poems”、《英语的附加语、外加语和联加语》、《形合与意合》、《要动态对等，不要形式对应》等五十多篇论文。

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