A Comparative Analysis of the Verb Mode from Two English - Chinese Dictionary with Chinese Translation

Longman Dictionary of American English(1992 edition) and Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English with Chinese Translation(2005 edition) are the two representative English-Chinese Dictionary with Chinese translation and one of the dictionaries that have greatest influence on Chinese English learners.The verb structure mode that provides easy syntactic elementary guidance for students has become the research focus of dictionary compilation experts and linguists in recent years.The study of verb structure mode provides dictionary users with clearer searching and easier understanding.What’s more,it provides teacher’s grammar teaching with strong reference.From four main aspects of verb mode,this paper compares and analyzes these two dictionary in expectation to further comprehend and discuss the arrangement of verb structure mode in the most effective dictionary and play the functions of these two dictionary fully.