全书分《哲学卷》、《史学卷》、《文学卷》、《民族卷》和《综合卷》。

Five volumes are entitled as follows: Philosophy, History, Literature, Nationality and Synthetic Study.

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全书分为八大主题，将语言的元素逐一分解，并针对所有发音的细节作详细介绍，包括：母音、子音、子音群、重音与节奏、 连音、语调等。

Eight important topics are included, such as "vowel sounds", "consonant clusters", "stress and rhythm", "sounds in connected speech", "intonation" and so on.

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此时的读者只看到了全书三分之二的内容。在该书最新的英译本中，这部分内容共有1200页，所涉人物超过400位。

At this point the reader is only two-thirds of the way through the book, which runs to 1,200 pages in its most recent English translation and boasts a cast of more than 400.

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