　　葛传椝（1906-1992），复旦大学教授，上世纪50年代复旦大学英语语言文学系“三巨头”之一。幼时家境清贫，初中辍学后，自学英语。1921年考入上海电报传习所，翌年至崇明县立中学任教。1925年起任上海商务印书馆英语编辑，直至八一三中日淞沪战争爆发。任职其间发现很多英语单词的中文词意义相同，而英语的习惯表述却差异很大，即以6年时间编写《英语习惯用法词典》，于1942年出版，是为中国人编写的第一部英语惯用法词典。在查阅《简明牛津词典》（The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English）时，发现其中不少错误，即致信词典主编英人福勒(H. W. Fowler)，为福勒所钦佩。之后，为中华书局、竞文书局编写英语读本。1945年起任教于上海光华大学。中华人民共和国成立后，接上级教育主管单位命令，1951年光华大学与大夏大学合并成立华东师范大学，继续在此执教至1954年，继而调往复旦大学外文系任教，直至1986年退休。1992年7月在上海逝世。著有久负盛名的《英汉四用词典》、《新英汉词典》（主要编纂者之一），以及《英语惯用法词典》、《英语写作》，被学界誉为一代宗师，为中国英语教育界先驱之一。

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What is Your Object in Studying English? ... 1
A Few Warning Words ... 3
Two Dictionaries Recommended ... 6
How to Read the Dictionary ... 9
Good Pronunciation ... 12
English Pronunciation is English ... 15
What to Read ... 18
Reading Aloud ... 21
Do You Read the Preface? ... 25
Can You Read Englishmen’s English? ... 28
Verse and Poetry Distinguished ... 30
A Few Terms of Prosody Explained ... 33
About Composition “Don’ts” ... 36
An Easy Sentence to Study ... 38
Idiom and Slang ... 41
Logic and Usage ... 44
A Special Use of Quotation-Marks ... 47
Double Negatives in Current English ... 49
What Does “Would of Come” Mean? ... 51
“No! No! NO!” ... 53
Language and Impression ... 56
Lying without Deceiving ... 59
Puns and Punning ... 62
What is Humour? ... 65
Irish Bulls ... 68
Repartees ... 71
Do You See the Point of the Joke? ... 74
Can You Guess a Riddle? ... 76
The Familiar Essay ... 79
Headings in Newspapers ... 82
Headings and Sub-headings ... 85
The Beginning is a Summary ... 88
Some Common Expressions in News Items ... 91
Letters from Correspondents ... 95
Letters to the Editor ... 98
Leaders and Leaderettes ... 101
The Book Page ... 104
The Woman’s Page ... 107
Dramas, Movies, Etc. ...111
Advertisements ...115
Wanted — A Guide to Idiomatic English for Chinese Students ...119
Reading to Learn the Art of Expression ... 122
About the Study of Grammar ... 125
Knowing Just Enough Grammar to Go Wrong ... 128
A “Foolish” Principle of Composition ... 130
An Aid to Composition ... 133
Some Mistakes to Consider ... 135
Some More Mistakes to Consider ... 137
Make the Word Your Own ... 140
Words that Are Too Often Used ... 142
Metaphorical and Plain Idioms ... 144
Are You a Votary of Mrs Malaprop? ... 147
A Warning Regarding the Use of Words ... 150
What “Literary English” Means ... 152
Simplicity and Affected Simplicity ... 154
Love of Commercialisms ... 157
The Compound-Prepositional Style ... 160
Imitation, Good and Bad ... 163
Paraphrase as an Exercise in Composition ... 166
Composition and Compositions ... 169
On English Letter-Writing ... 172
A Few Points of Form in Letters ... 175
Never Mind the Shortness ... 178
Three Popular Superstitions ... 181
The That-Clause in Letters ... 183
Notes on Some Common Words in Letters ... 186
Two Friendly Letters ... 189
On the Europeanization of the Chinese Language ... 192
Some Fragments of Pai Chü-I’s Poetry Concerning Women ... 199
Some Longer English Lyrics ... 206
How to Study English ... 230