各章重点内容串讲：
Introduction
1.Lexicology（名词解释题）
（1）Definition: Lexicology is a branch of linguistics, inquiring into the origins and meanings of words（WNWD）.
本句翻译：词汇学是语言学的一个分支，它主要是研究词汇的来源以及意义（词汇学的定义）。
（2）Domain: English lexicology aims at investigating and studying the morphological structures of English words and word equivalents, their semantic structures, relations, historical development, formation and usages.
本句翻译：它研究的是英语词汇的形态结构，同时它还研究英语词汇的语义结构、英语词汇的发展历史和英语词汇的形成与用法。
2.Methods of Study（单选题/名词解释题）
（1）Two approaches
There are generally two approaches to the study of words, namely synchronic and diachronic.
synchronic 共时法
diachronic 历时法
（2）Definition: A, synchronic
From a synchronic point of view, words can be studied at a point in time.
However, if we take a diachronic perspective, we will consider the word historically, looking into its origin and changes in form and meaning.
1.word（名词解释）
（1）a minimal free form of a language
1）Therefore, we can say that a word is a minimal free form of a language（词是语言中的最小的自由形式）
2）that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function.（词有固定的读音，固定的意义，固定的句法功能。）
2.the relationships between the sound and meaning
（1）简答题
1）Sound is the physical aspect of a word. And meaning is what the sound refers to.
本句翻译：音是词的物质外壳；义是音的所指。
2）A word is a symbol that stands for something else in the world, which is outside the language system.
（2）单选题或填空题
arbitrary/conventional
1）there is ‘no logical relationship between the sound which stands for a thing or an idea and the actual thing and idea itself’.（音与实际的实物和实际思想本身并没有一定的逻辑关系）
2）The relationship between them is conventional because people of the same speech community have agreed to refer to the animal with this cluster of sounds.
3.More and more differences occur between the two.（简答题）（音和形之间的距离越拉
越大）（P8）
①The internal reason for this is that the English alphabet was adopted from the Romans
②Another reason is that the pronunciation has changed more rapidly than spelling over the years
③The third reason is that some of the differences were created by the early scribes.
④Finally comes the borrowing, which is an important channel of enriching the English vocabulary.
4.Words can be classified by different criteria（简答题/单选题）（P10－P11）
Words may fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by use frequency, into content words and functional words by notion, and into native words and borrowed words by origin.
use frequency使用频率
notion概念
origin词源
5.The basic word stock（名词解释）（P11）
（1）The basic word stock is the foundation（基础）of the vocabulary accumulated over centuries and forms the common core of the language.
（2）Though words of the basic word stock constitute a small percentage of the English vocabulary, yet it is the most important part of it. These words have obvious characteristics.
6.Features of the basic word stock （简答题）
①All national character.（全民性）
②Stability.（稳定性）
③Productivity.（能产性）
④Polysemy.（多义性）
⑤Collocability.（搭配性）
7.Nonbasic words
（1）Terminology（术语）
（2）Jargon（行话）
（3）Slang（俚语）
（4）Argot（黑话）
（5）Dialectal words（方言词）
（6）Archaisms（古词）
（7）Neologisms（新词）
Slang（俚语）（P14）:
1）Slang belongs to the sub-standard language, a category that seems to stand between the standard general words including informal ones available to everyone and in-group words like cant（shoptalk of any sub-group）, jargon, and argot.
俚语属于非基本语言，它是位于标准语和套话、行话以及黑话之间的语言。
2）Certain words are labeled ‘slang’not because of their appearance or pronunciation but because of their usage.
本句翻译：某些词语之所以叫俚语并不是因为它的发音，也不是因为它的词形，而是因为它的用法。
3）Much of the slang is created by changing or extending the meaning of existing words though some slang words are new coinages altogether.