An Illustrated Chinese-English Guide for Biomedical Scientists, now available from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

The Illustrated Chinese-English Guide for Biomedical Scientists is intended to build confidence in the use of English scientific language. The book lists terms that are in common use in science laboratories, translated into both simplified and complex Chinese. It also contains illustrations of equipment, labelled in both languages.

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Pronunciation Guide

This supplementary Web site provides a pronunciation guide for the terms covered in An Illustrated Chinese-English Guide for Biomedical Scientists. Click on a specific term to hear the English pronunciation.

List of Terms

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z, numbers

warm

warranty

wart

wash

washer

waste (n, v)

water

wavelength

web page

Western (protein) blot

wet (adj)

wetness

wheel

whole

wide

wind (n)

wind (v)

window

wire

withdraw

withhold

wood

World Wide Web

worse

worsen

worst

wrench

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