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。

No clear conclusions can be made about the predictie alidity of specific measures, they found, except for criteria for the underuse of drugs for cardioascular disease.

除了心血管病不合理用药标准外，对于特定评价方法的预测效度没有明确的结论。

The third and last is that almost all of them, being infinite in number, have been impostures, and by idle and crafty brains merely contrived and feigned after the event past.

第三、即最后一点是：几乎所有这些不胜枚举的预言都是欺人之谈，都是在事件过后由无聊而狡猾的脑筋推测与凭空捏造的。