to also become the dictionary educational circles.

It shows that even measured by the modern lexicography,the bilingual dictionary is classical considering its scientific,informative and practical significance.

The relations between linguistics and lexicography are becoming more and more intense now,and no modern lexicographer can afford to ignore what linguistic research has to offer.

This paper, based on interactive relations between language, the dictionary and lexicography, provides some reflections upon such fundamental theoretical issues as dictionary compilation principles and methods, the scope of lexicography and its theoretical configuration and the status of lexicography as a discipline.

As a new member of the learners dictionary family,Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners is innovative in terms of pragmatic information.

As far as learners dictionary concerned, English learners dictionaries and English-Japanese learners dictionaries on the whole have realized this need and taken a further step in the inclusion of a certain amount of information about vocabulary building.

With a view to the existing controversy over the name and division of dictionaries of translation studies,the paper defines a prototype dictionary with reference to lexicographical and translatological parameters.

The present paper argues that, an area between translation studies and lexicography, dictionaries of translation studies (DTS) compilation is interdisciplinary.