Modern Social Science Research

The New-Era Chinese-English Dictionary (2nd Edition) takes advantage of pictures by includes 152 illustrations. These illustrations are of various types, either involving single word or multiple words; they either aid explanation or indicate semantic relations, or serve both purposes; the titles of the illustrations involve headwords and example phrases or sentences; parts of speech of the illustrated items include nouns and verbs; there are both illustrations of objects and schematic diagrams; using line drawings instead of photos to highlight the details is more helpful. While affirming their strengths, this article mainly discusses the aspects of the illustrations that need to be improved, such as 1. Some illustrations lack auxiliary elements; 2. Some illustrations can not fully serve their purposes; 3. Some illustrations fail to take into account the two major variants of English; 4. The titles of some illustrations are not the same as the translations of the headwords or example phrases or sentences; 5. Some illustrations can mislead users; 6. Imbalance exists in the provision of illustrations for words in the same semantic field; and 7. The styles of illustrations are not consistent.

New Era 2; Illustration; Illustration title