文档介绍：Using the BBI
A workbook with exercises
for the binatory Dictionary of English
The binatory Dictionary of English: Your guide to collocations and grammar
Workbook, p. 1 © 2010 John Benjamins pany, Robert Ilson and Evelyn Benson
Table of contents
Preface 4
How entries are structured in the BBI 5
Abbreviations used in the BBI 7
UNIT 1 : Using the BBI 8
Exercise 1-A 8
Exercise 1-B 9
Exercise 1-C 10
Exercise 1-D 11
Exercise 1-E 12
UNIT 2 : Collocations, binations, and idioms 14
Exercise 2-A 14
Exercise 2-B 16
UNIT 3: Noun collocations 18
Exercise 3-A 18
Exercise 3-B 19
Exercise 3-C 20
Exercise 3-D 21
UNIT 4: Adjective collocations 24
Exercise 4-A 24
Exercise 4-B 25
Exercise 4-C 26
Exercise 4-D 28
Exercise 4-E 29
UNIT 5: Verb collocations 31
Exercise 5-A 31
Exercise 5-B 33
Exercise 5-C 34
Exercise 5-D 35
Exercise 5-E 36
Exercise 5-F 37
The binatory Dictionary of English: Your guide to collocations and grammar
Workbook, p. 2 © 2010 John Benjamins pany, Robert Ilson and Evelyn Benson
UNIT 6: Verb collocations (continued) 39
Exercise 6-A 39
Exercise 6-B 41
Exercise 6-C 43
Exercise 6-D 44
Exercise 6-E 46
Exercise 6-F 47
UNIT 7: Supplementary exercises 48
Exercise 7-A 48
Exercise 7-B 49
Exercise 7-C 49
Exercise 7-D 50
Postscript 51
The binatory Dictionary of English: Your guide to collocations and grammar
Workbook, p. 3 © 2010 John Benjamins pany, Robert Ilson and Evelyn Benson
Preface
This Workbook, USING THE BBI, introduces students, teachers, translators, and other interested people
to the binatory Dictionary of English. The Workbook explains how the BBI is constructed,
demonstrates how collocations differ from binations and idioms, and shows how collocations of
all types can be identified and found quickly. Users of the Workbook will e well acquainted with all
parts of the BBI -which also includes Usage Notes giving