MOUREAU , M. & BRACE , G. 2000. Comprehensive Dictionary of Earth Sciences. English–French; French–English. xxix+1096 pp. Paris: Éditions Technip. Price FF970.00, US $160.00, £147.88 (hard covers). ISBN 2 7108 0749 1
| Autor: | Eric J.-P. Blanc |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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| Zdroj: | Geological Magazine. 138:219-232 |
| ISSN: | 1469-5081 0016-7568 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0016756801384959 |
| Popis: | This French–English dictionary is well presented, modern, complete and easy to use. It gives simple, short and accurate translations of 37 000 terms and forms a good reference source for geoscientists who have to deal with written forms of French or American English. This is also why this dictionary might shock the purists: the authors have chosen to ignore the raging debate over hyphenation or non-hyphenation by welding composite words together (e.g. ‘Sealevel’). If however one takes into account the fact that very few native English-speakers do master hyphenation this might not be so sacrilegious! To summarize, this book stands head and shoulders above the pile of existing dictionaries as a modern, comprehensive, simple and certainly the … |
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