Extracting Grammatical Constructions from Wenlin

[googed]

Wenlin dictionary seems to have a lot of grammatical constructions.

Here are only those with 从 and, as seen, they are almost all introduced in the following fashion:

◆cons.

① ∼ A chūfā departing from A

② ∼ A dào B from A to B

③ ∼ A qǐ starting from A

④ ∼ A kànlái viewed from A

⑤ ∼ A lái jiǎng/kàn/shuō speaking/viewing/speaking /from consideration of A | ∼ zhè jiàn shì® lái kàn, qíngkuàng

Is there a way to get a list of all grammatical constructions from any of the versions of Wenlin dictionary?

[Jun Yang]

There are two mistakes in this entry:

“① ∼ A chūfā departing from A” We never say 出发A（chu fa A）, "departing from A" should be "从A出发(cong a chu fa)", departing = 出发(chu fa)， from = 从(cong)

“③ ∼ A qǐ starting from A”， We never say 起A(qi A), "starting from A" should be "从A起(cong A qi)"， starting = 起（qi）, from = 从（cong）

I suggest you to change a dictionary.

[roddy]

I suggest you to find out what ∼ is used for in dictionaries . . .

[uchihak]

LOL....pwned!

Seriously, the Chinese are wonderful people, but sometimes some of them such parochial ideas about their own language and culture....

[adrianlondon]

It was just a misunderstanding of the way dictionaries work. He/she failed, but was trying to be helpful. The "rep" system is working here, as the post is marked as being unhelpful.