　　葛傳椝（1906-1992），復旦大學教授，上世紀50年代復旦大學英語語言文學係“三巨頭”之一。幼時傢境清貧，初中輟學後，自學英語。1921年考入上海電報傳習所，翌年至崇明縣立中學任教。1925年起任上海商務印書館英語編輯，直至八一三中日淞滬戰爭爆發。任職其間發現很多英語單詞的中文詞意義相同，而英語的習慣錶述卻差異很大，即以6年時間編寫《英語習慣用法詞典》，於1942年齣版，是為中國人編寫的第一部英語慣用法詞典。在查閱《簡明牛津詞典》（The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English）時，發現其中不少錯誤，即緻信詞典主編英人福勒(H. W. Fowler)，為福勒所欽佩。之後，為中華書局、競文書局編寫英語讀本。1945年起任教於上海光華大學。中華人民共和國成立後，接上級教育主管單位命令，1951年光華大學與大夏大學閤並成立華東師範大學，繼續在此執教至1954年，繼而調往復旦大學外文係任教，直至1986年退休。1992年7月在上海逝世。著有久負盛名的《英漢四用詞典》、《新英漢詞典》（主要編纂者之一），以及《英語慣用法詞典》、《英語寫作》，被學界譽為一代宗師，為中國英語教育界先驅之一。

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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