| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第1-9页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第9-17页 |
| ·The definition of boosters | 第9页 |
| ·Research on boosters | 第9-14页 |
| ·Description of boosters in grammar books | 第9-13页 |
| ·Corpus-based study of boosters | 第13-14页 |
| ·Boosters and dictionaries | 第14-17页 |
| CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHOD AND PROCEDURE | 第17-22页 |
| ·The corpus-based approach | 第17页 |
| ·Corpora | 第17-18页 |
| ·Research procedures | 第18-22页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR ANALYSES OF SELECTED BOOSTERS | 第22-34页 |
| ·Bitterly | 第22-26页 |
| ·Wonderfully | 第26-28页 |
| ·Enormously | 第28-30页 |
| ·Considerably | 第30-34页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF BOOSTERS IN BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES | 第34-49页 |
| ·The meaning and use of boosters in bilingual dictionaries | 第34-45页 |
| ·A general survey of boosters in bilingual dictionaries | 第34-36页 |
| ·Selected boosters represented in ten English-Chinese dictionaries | 第36-45页 |
| ·Bitterly | 第36-38页 |
| ·Wonderfully | 第38-39页 |
| ·Enormously | 第39-42页 |
| ·Considerably | 第42-45页 |
| ·Suggestions for the improvement of the representation of boosters in bilingual dictionaries | 第45-49页 |
| ·Equivalents | 第45-46页 |
| ·Examples | 第46-47页 |
| ·Usage notes | 第47-49页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第49-51页 |
| REFERENCES | 第51-52页 |
