《柯林斯COBUILD高级英汉双解词典(附光盘全彩色)》保持了柯林斯系列词典的鲜明特色：

（一）所有义项均采用整句释义，亲切自然，深入浅出，成功凸现出词汇在典型语境中的典型用法，释义本身即是绝佳的例证。

（二）全部英语语料出自规模为6.5亿词大语料库，例句真实、可靠、地道。

（三）增设附加栏，版面清晰，查找方便，提供词频、语法、搭配结构和语用等方面的信息，帮助学习者正确使用语言，成功达到交流的目的。

（四）创新地使用菱形符号樯注词频信息，令基础和重点词汇一目了然。作为一本学习型词典，例证丰富是本词典的一大特色。62000余例证直接出自世界知名英语语料库the Bank of English，所涉领域极其广泛，反映现代生活的方方面面，让读者在阅读使用过程中身临其实的语境，领略地道的英语。

What is “COBUILD”?

“COBUILD” is an acronym for “Collins Birmingham University International Language Database” and is the name of a collaborative research project between the famous British dictionary publisher Collins and Birmingham University.

It is an epoch-making monolingual dictionary of “living English” that uses the huge database accumulated in the corpus ― The Bank of English™.

It was also the world's first dictionary to be based on a corpus and has been widely loved by English learners around the world for more than 20 years.