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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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Synonym disaster !!!


I'm preparing for translation test (chinese-english translation). I find myself suffering the synonym disaster, I mean I have to, frequently, choose a better one from several confusing synonyms. For example:

restriction, constraint, restriction, limitation, limit, restraint, confinement

How should I make it more easy to quickly decide among those words? I think there must be some kind of dictionary specially designed for this work. Am I wrong? 

Thanks,
cheng, a returning member with a new question
  

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I think that a dictionary of collocations would be best for you. I recommend Oxford Collocations. It will tell you what contexts are the most suitable for a given word.

  • I think that a dictionary of collocations would be best for you.
  • I recommend Oxford Collocations.
  • It will tell you what contexts are the most suitable for a given word.
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I think that a dictionary of collocations would be best for you. I recommend Oxford Collocations. It will tell you what contexts are the most suitable for a given word.

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