严谨莫如辞书 千虑不可一失

This paper presents a brief survey on the status quo of domestically published bilanguage dictionaries in English and Chinese. It consists of three parts. Tart one is concerned with the author's concept on impeccable classic dictionary. The second part specifies the mistakes in some of the bilanguage dictionaries and makes analyses of them. In the third part the author stresses the view - point that the first important thing for dictionary compilers to do is to comprehend fully whtat dictionary is. Only when compilers make penetrating comprehension of it can they pay painstaking efforts in dictionary- editing work, and can impeccable classic dictionaries be produced.

Impeccable classic dictionary expects to be compiled with discretion