改编或缩编大型工具书,使之适用于更确定的人群是一项非常有意义的工作,也是我国科学文化事业进一步发展的重要方向。《小辞海》是上海辞书出版社以《辞海》为基础、以中学生为读者对象所编而成,编辑们通过审慎考量前期定位、制定编纂系统、确定词目单与词目内容的缩略语增加、确定词目级别几个环节,处理好因改编缩编而派生出的新问题,使其能够最终经得住市场考验,为大型工具书的改编缩编提供了较完整、规范的思路。 Adapting or downsizing large reference books and making them suitable for a more defined population is a very meaningful task and an important direction for the further development of our country’s science and culture. “Xiao Ci Hai” is a dictionary compiled by Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House based on “Ci Hai” and targeted at middle school students. By careful consideration of pre-orientation, the editors made a compilation system to determine the increase of abbreviations in the entry list and the headwords , Identify a few links in the level of the title, deal with new problems derived from the adaptation of the drawdown, so that it can eventually withstand the test of the market for the adaptation of large reference books provide a more complete and standardized ideas.