Dictionary sentences wrong?
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Tuttle and to a lesser extent 21C have lots of these glitches, but it doesn't bother me at all.
What I would love to be able to do is searching for expressions that are not dictionary entries, and google style, like “我*很難”; as of now you can use SENTS only for dictioney entries. But it sounds tough to implement.
What I would love to be able to do is searching for expressions that are not dictionary entries, and google style, like “我*很難”; as of now you can use SENTS only for dictioney entries. But it sounds tough to implement.
Are you sure you're using the latest version of 21C? We thought we'd already fixed those glitches in that.
You can search for other expressions already, just put a # at the start of your search term. Doesn't support wildcards yet but it will certainly let you look for things that aren't dictionary entries. (the only reason we don't do that automatically is because the break-down-a-term-into-its-constituent-words feature is so wildly popular)
You can search for other expressions already, just put a # at the start of your search term. Doesn't support wildcards yet but it will certainly let you look for things that aren't dictionary entries. (the only reason we don't do that automatically is because the break-down-a-term-into-its-constituent-words feature is so wildly popular)
I know, but it would be nice to have the results in a single tab like SENTS, instead of having a list of possible long entries where you have to go through each one to look for the expression you want. My perverse idea is a tab with a list of example sentences containing what you are looking for, even if it's not a dictionary entry. In short, SENTS even for what is not a dictionary entry. Anyway, just my random disconnected thoughts 
English. My Chinese is not yet to the level necessary to decide if a sentence sounds good or not, and it will probably never be. I haven't used 21c it for some time and/or I may have stumbled upon a few unlucky sentences and jumped to conclusions too fast. I've been trying to find some for a few minutes to no avail. I don't know why I got that impression when I first purchased it.
The English sentences do have some glitches, yeah - not a major source of concern for our users, but it's one of the reasons why we aren't pushing 21C more aggressively to Chinese speakers learning English. (for that group we'd really want an English learner's dictionary to which Chinese translations had been added)