A Glossary of Common Cantonese Colloquial Expressions

ISBN: 9789622019751

出版社: The Chinese University Press

出版年: 2002-12-15

页数: 375

定价: USD 21.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

《常用廣州話口語詞彙》主要內容簡介：Cantonese has a wealth of colloquial expressions on various daily life situations whichare very descriptive but not easily comprehensible to non-Cantonese。 This book collectsand compiles over 3,000 entries of the commonly-used ones and presents them withtheir English translations for English-speaking students learning Cantonese。 Besideslisting the expression in Chinese characters with its literal translation in English, eachentry also contains its phonetic transcription in the Yale Romanization System, and adescription of its meaning and sometimes its origin。 The entries are arranged alphabeticallyaccording to the Yale Romanization System, and, for ease of reference, an index by thestrokes of the Chinese characters of the expressions is included。 There is also anexplanation of the Yale Romanization System。

This book is also a useful and convenient reference for interpreters and translatorsin Cantonese and English and for non-Cantonese Chinese learning Cantonese。Simon Siu-hing SO, Ph。D。 （HKU）, M。A。 （Columbia）, B。A。 Hons （London）, has written widelyand published a number of books, including Cantonese textbooks。 His articles on history,translation and literary writings appear mostly in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Canada。