Prestigious Chinese-Chinese Dictionary UpdatedExpanded and updated for the 1990s, the new edition of China's most prestigious Chinese dictionary "Xinhua" will be published at the end of this year.According to today's China Youth Daily, in the dictionary's new edition, it will be entirely revised and reset to include entries for words that have recently become established in current usage, and as far as possible an up-to-date record of development in world affairs, institutions, and science and technology in everyday life. Zhou Hongbo, director of the Chinese Editing Desk for the dictionary's publisher, the Commercial Press, said that more terms reflecting today's latest scientific, medical and other technical developments will be introduced in the 2001 edition. The latest entries of information technology will contain words like disc, optical fiber cable, Internet, e-commerce, cell phone, millennium bug and information superhighway while the environmental protection entries are sand storm, organic food and El Nino phenomenon. More than 2,000 out-of-date words have been deleted so far, said Zhou. Some of them are agriculture terms like asdichlorovos, seedling puller and actinometer and radio tube in physics entries. In addition, the appendix of the new edition will add a check list of new and old technical terms, China's major scenic spots, major nature reserves, top-level state protected animals and plants. Illustrations will also appear for the first time, Zhou added. |
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