《现代汉语词典》是以记录普通话语汇为主的中型词典,在社会上有巨大影响。但也存在一些小问题。释义方面,解释或滞后,或错讹,或义项不全。收词方面,刚刚产生的新词未及时收录,而一些不属于“现代汉语”范畴之内,现代已不再使用的古汉语词汇收录时却没有剔除。本文通过举例,来说明《现代汉语词典》在释义与收词两方面存在的问题。 The Dictionary of Modern Chinese is a medium-sized dictionary based on the records of ordinary spoken Chinese and has a huge social impact. But there are also some minor problems. Paraphrase, explanation or lag, or wrong, or incomplete. In terms of collecting words, the new words that have just been produced are not included in time, while some are not within the category of “modern Chinese”. However, the ancient Chinese words that are no longer used in modern times are not excluded. This article, by way of example, illustrates the problems existing in the definition and the collection of terms in Modern Chinese Dictionary.