Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
I'm preparing for translation test (chinese-english translation). I find myself suffering the synonym disaster, I mean I have to, frequently, choose a better one from several confusing synonyms. For example:
restriction, constraint, restriction, limitation, limit, restraint, confinement
How should I make it more easy to quickly decide among those words? I think there must be some kind of dictionary specially designed for this work. Am I wrong?
Thanks,
cheng, a returning member with a new question
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Synonym disaster !!!
I'm preparing for translation test (chinese-english translation). I find myself suffering the synonym disaster, I mean I have to, frequently, choose a better one from several confusing synonyms. For example:
restriction, constraint, restriction, limitation, limit, restraint, confinement
How should I make it more easy to quickly decide among those words? I think there must be some kind of dictionary specially designed for this work. Am I wrong?
Thanks,
cheng, a returning member with a new question
Top answer
I think that a dictionary of collocations would be best for you. I recommend Oxford Collocations. It will tell you what contexts are the most suitable for a given word.
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I think that a dictionary of collocations would be best for you. I recommend Oxford Collocations. It will tell you what contexts are the most suitable for a given word.
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