查字典

Look for it in your dictionary, and while you are looking, murmur somewhat abstractedly,"Is that a preposition or a participle?"

你便到你的字典里去查找这个词，边查，边心不在焉地喃喃自语："它是前致词，还是分词？"

Routine errands to the village become opportunities to wile away hours observing hotly contested games of boules, reading the ever-intriguing gestures that punctuate every street corner conversation, or listening to resident experts hold forth on the weather, history, the behavior of tourists, and local scandals while sipping a pastis at the café.

到村里例行公务的差事给他们创造了机会，去观摩众议院热烈的讨论，欣赏街巷对话中那些迷人的手势，或是听老居民们在酒馆里边砸吗着pastis（法国茴香酒，从字典里查的不一定对），边谈论天气，历史，游客趣事和地方丑闻。

Our weekly column on the financial markets takes its name from the 1792 agreement that regulated the informal group of brokers who gathered under a Buttonwood tree on Wall Street to trade.

我的建议是查专业的字典，也可以尝试网上的路透社或高盛财经词典。另外一个我个人常用的方法是在google里选只查中文网页，可以看到别人怎么翻译的，用来参考。

And when it comes to English slang and colloquialism in a particular place, you had better consult a dictionary to avoid embarrassment.

而说到特定地方的英文俚语和口语时，你最好查一下字典免得出糗。

Their meaning, that can be looked up in the dictionary, is denotative.

他们的意义是外延的，是可以在字典中查到的。

Then he and I learned for the rest of our lives the difference between a dromedary and a camel.

那天下午，他垂头丧气的回到了办公室，像孩子般聚精会神查起了字典。

You'd better look up the word in an English-English dictionary.

你最好用英英字典来查这个字。

You can look it up in the glossary of this dictionary. save

你可以从这本字典的词汇表中查到该词。

" I could surmise it's the opposite of "heavy-headed, but wasn't comfortably until I found it in a dictionary.

不久以前，我读到light-headed一个字，就在字典上查不到，虽然猜想它可能是heavy-headed的反义字，可是没有字典就是没有把握。

I could surmise it's the opposite of "heavy-headed," but wasn't comfortably until I found it in a dictionary. I ask Mr. Chu, the managing editor-in-chief of the English edition of China Daily, for help.

不久以前，我读到light-headed一个字，就在字典上查不到，虽然猜想它可能是heavy-headed的反义字，可是没有字典就是没有把握。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。