体例说明TYPOGRAPHIC NOTES

1.本教材中的汉语拼音是根据以下标准校订的：

The Pinyin transcription in Basic Chinese for North America Today follows the conventions as outlined in：

（1）吴景荣、程镇球《新时代汉英大词典》，北京：商务印书馆，2005.

（2）中国社会科学院语言研究所词典编辑室《现代汉语词典》（第5版），北京：商务印书馆，2005.

（3）《汉语拼音正词法基本规则》（GB/T 16159—1996）.

（4）商务印书馆辞书研究中心《新华拼写词典》，北京：商务印书馆，2002.

（5）Yin, Binyong&Felley, Mary（1990）Chinese Romanization：Pronunciation and Orthography. Beijing：Sinolingua.

2.拼音练习里的圆括号“（）”表示其中的音节在汉语中不存在，仅供学生练习发音之用。如果圆括号出现在生词和课文里，用于标注词性、表示省略或解释前面的词语。

The elements in round parentheses“（）”in the phonetics exercises are non-standard auxiliary constructs, only for the purpose of helping the student with the pronunciation. In the vocabulary and text sections, they further indicate grammatical categories, ellipses, or explanations of preceding phenomena.

3.汉语拼音在英文中用斜体字书写。生词表里的英文属于词性解释，也用斜体字。

Pinyin words in an English sentence and English explanations in the vocabulary sections（but not the English vocabulary itself）are written in italics.

4.在语音部分，“[]”中的内容是国际音标。在词汇部分，“[]”中是简体字对应的繁体字，“（）”表示该词或字可有可无，“/”后表示的是异体字。

In the phonetic section, the square bracket“[]”indicates the international phonetic system. In the vocabulary section, on the other hand，“[]”contains the traditional version of the same Chinese characters in the simplifed version.The parentheses“（）”indicates that a character or a character phrase may be optional.The slash“/”would note that the character（s）after the slash is the variant version of the same character before it.

5.“*”在句前，表示该句是错的。

The asterisk in front of a phrase“*”indicates that the phrase is intentionally written wrong（for purposes of practice）.

6.在“补充词语”部分，生词的拼音在前，汉字在后。

When supplementary words and expressions are introduced, the Pinyin transcription precedes the Chinese characters.

7.在生词表中，繁体字放在“[]”里，以便学生学简识繁。

The traditional version of a new character introduced in the vocabulary section is presented in square brackets“[]”，so the student can memorize the simplifed character, but still learns to recognize its traditional form.