how large is large? how big is big?

"Large" and" Big"
they have same meaning in Chinese as 大
but how exactly to tell the differences between them
To answer the question, i've checked the VLC Concordancer & NTNU Web Concordancer to find out the discrepancy.


1.ve been just another statistic in a big city or on a motorway devastated t
2.taphorical pinny, looking after the big house and garden, the laundry,six

1.ishes in Tehran and more in other large cities. Some three million people ar
2.s full salary. {para} He lives in a large house in central Beijing, which is

* In the examples above, we can tell that both of them can be used in describing the size of an object or the measure or scale or an area.


1. do that on a teacher-training course by having a large amount of group activity, a large amount of stud
2. A spokesman for the board said a large number of employees in the clothing

* We usually use "large" to describe quantity like "amount" or "number".
I could not find such usage when checking the examples of "big"

Feedback on march 5th

After knowing various sorts dictionary and their functions and usage provided in class,
as an English major student but without a real dictionary
i felt terribly ashamed.
In my experience of using dictionary
i simply jot down the vocabulary which i'm not familiar with, or look it up in my digital dictionary right away.(if i do bring it to class)
then write down the vocabuary and its chinese definition in my notebook.
but i found out that when i flip through the notebook after awhile
i may still remember the chinese meaning of the word, but not the exact usage. (especially the words which have similar definition in chinese, but quite different in English)
so i end up checking my digital dictionary again.
After trying some websites of online dictionary, ex. oxford, cambridge, alphaDictionary
i realized that if i do use dictionary properly by checking monolingual dictionary, and more than one source, i should get a more gerneral concept of the vocabulary, also enhence the impression toward the word while looking it up.
It is much more efficient than what i did before, even it takes a bit more time.
but i do understand the word from different aspects.
now i sort of feel the pleasure of looking up dictionary that the author mentioned about.
and i've learned alot in the class!

: )

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