“美籍华人”这一词汇,经常见于我国报刊。《科利尔百科全书》的“诺贝尔奖金获得者名单”中将1957年物理奖金获得者李政道和杨振宁均列为“Chinese American”。遗憾的是遍查各种英汉词典和汉英词典,都找不到“Chinese American”和“美籍华人”条目。或许是由于词典中条目的不全,有时在词汇的使用上发生混淆不清的现象,有的竟然将“美籍华人”误称为“American Chinese”。按照英语语法分析,“Chinese American” “American Chinese ” the term, often seen in our newspapers. In the Collier’s Encyclopedia of Nobel Prize Winners, Li Zhengdao and Yang Zhenning, both 1957 physical prize winners, are listed as “Chinese American.” Unfortunately, I searched all kinds of English-Chinese dictionaries, Chinese-English dictionaries, and found no entries of “Chinese American” and “American Chinese”. Perhaps because of the incomplete entries in the dictionary, confusion sometimes occurs in the use of the vocabulary, and some even mistake the “American Chinese” as “American Chinese.” According to English grammar analysis, “Chinese American ”