

以两种最常用的语言文字和口语介绍东方和西方的不同文化
Introduce the cultures in the two different forms of the most written and spoken languages respectively in the Orient and in the Occident.
此『中英百科』的目的是,以兩種最常用的語言文字和口語介紹東方和西方的不同文化。中文中國的語言,也為許多亞洲國家華人所使用。英語是聯合王國 (英國)、美國、加拿大、澳洲和數個其他國家國的主要語言。而實際上,當代英語為許多西方國家的人所使用。
The purpose of this Chinese English Pedia is to introduce the cultures in the two different forms of the most written and spoken languages respectively in the Orient and in the Occident. Chinese being the language of China, is also spoken by people of Chinese origin in many Asian countries. English is the main language of the UK (Britain), the US, Canada, Australia, and several other countries. Practically, current English is .spoken by people in many western countries.


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中英百科
Chinese English Pedia
在整理方面,大体上是用多样化不同的主题,以增加学习的兴趣。因此,内容包括感情、想法和沟通等许多话题,它们十之八九都以习语、口语、俚语、俗语和富于哲理性的谚语和格言等形式存在于两种语言中。在整理过程中,我们已儘量符合大众读者的不同口味和需要,加入了一些他们想知道的词句典故。
The arrangement is mainly by multifarious subjects so as to enhance interest in learning. The contents therefore include multi-topics relating to feelings, ideas and communication as they appear almost always in idiomatic, colloquial or slangy and common expressions as well as philosophic proverbs and sayings in both languages. In the process of arrangement, we’ve tried to meet the various tastes and needs of the reading public who would like to know some of the allusions of the expressions.


中英百科
Chinese English Pedia
此一系列的刋物更多触动读者的兴趣,而不触动读者的理智。不过,当两大文化相互抵触时,谚语有云:知己知彼,百战不殆。 [(孙子:『知彼知己,百战不殆。』)]
This series of publications appeals more to the interest than to the head of the reading public. Though, when two major cultures are in conflict with each other, the proverb goes: A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf.