高考英文滿分作文 How to Use the Dictionary?（怎樣使用字典?）

How to Use the Dictionary?

When you are reading something in English, you may often come across a new word. What's the best way to know it?

You may look it up in an English-Chinese Dictionary. It will tell you a lot about the word, the pronunciation, the part of speech, the Chinese meaning and also how to use this word.  But how can you find it in the dictionai'y both quickly and correctly7 First, all the English words are arranged in the'alphabetical order. In the dictionary you can first see the words beginning with the letter A, then B, C, D, E,... That means, if there are two,words desert and pull, desert will be certainly before pull. Then if there are two words both beginning with the same letter, you may lo0k at the second letter. Then the third, the fourth, ... For example,pardon is before plough, judge before just,etc.

Do you understand how to look up a word in dictionary?

The dictionary will be your: good friend. I hope you'll use it as often as possible in your English learning.

怎樣使用字典?

在閱讀英文材料時，你也許經常遇到生詞，認識它的最佳方法是什麼呢?

你可以查英漢字典，它會告訴你單詞的讀音、詞性、漢語意思以及用法。可是怎樣才能迅速無誤地在字典中查到它呢?首先，所有的英文單詞都是按照字母順序排列的。在字典中，你首先看到以字母A開頭的單詞，接著是以B、C、D、E等開頭的單詞。這就是說，如果有兩個單詞“desert”和“pur，“desert”一定在“pull”的前面。其次，如果有兩個單詞以同一個字母開頭，你可以看第二個字母，接著是第三個、第四個，以此類推。例如，“pardon”在“plough’’的前面，“judge”在“just”的前面，等等。

你現在會查字典了嗎?

字典會成為你的好朋友，希望你在英文學習過程中要儘量經常地使用它.