Printing indeed played a key role in standardizing and stabilizing these languages by fixing them in print, and producing dictionaries and grammar books.

通过印刷品中修正语言，以及生产字典和语法书籍，印刷确实在语言的标准化和稳定化中起了关键作用。

The leather cover of the new dictionary was embellished with gold letters.

词典皮革封面上装饰着金字。

This is where teachers of English might helpfully note the difference between denotation (dictionary meaning) and connotation (associations that may not be part of a formal definition).

就是英语教师可能会注意到外延(字典意义)和隐含意义(可能不是正式定义的一分的联系)之间的区别的地方。

The dictionary usually has antonyms and synonym.

字典里都能查到反义词和同义词。

Consult your dictionary when unsure of your spelling.

拼写无把握时就要查阅词典。

Answers.com is the unber dictionary and encyclopedia on the internet.

Answers.com是网上的终极词典和百科全书。

Consult dictionaries for more precise definitions to enhance your comprehension.

查阅字典来获得更精确的定义，以提高你的理解能力。

Fixing an error or inaccuracy - that's how the dictionary defines a correction.

修正错误或误差，就是词典调整的定义。

My parents are actually, they grew up speaking the Navajo language; they're fluent speakers. They're like a dictionary. If I ask them, “How do you say this? ” they translate.

我的父母就是说纳瓦霍语长大的，都非常流利。他们像活字典一样。如果我问他们：“个用纳瓦霍语怎么说”，他们就会直接翻出来。

And, if you look it up in a big dictionary these days, you'll often be told " this verbal use is now rather rare" .

假如你现在查一查词典，它会告诉你个词的动词用法已经相当罕见了。

Open Dr. Johnson's celebrated dictionary, published in 1755, and the word fulfillment doesn't even appear.

打开 Johnson 博士 1755 年出版的著名辞典，会发现" fulfillment" （满足）个词根本没被记载在上面。

Next time can we look up the phrase gadget in a dictionary?

下次我们可以在字典里查一下小工具个短语吗？

There was an elderly woman, who might be the housekeeper, mending clothes, and two young ladies, who seemed to be learning a language with dictionaries.

一位上年纪的妇人，可能是管家，正在补衣服，还有两个年轻姑娘似乎正借助字典学外语。

So I think English-English dictionaries are really good.

所以我认为英英字典很棒。

Well how does the dictionary know how to pronounce a word.

字典里是如何知道单词的发音的呢？

It's partly due to the increased willingness of editors to include them in the dictionaries.

分原因是词典编纂者乐意将其收录进词典。

It was not recognised at all as being anything interesting when it was discovered, it was just a corroded lump about the size of a large dictionary.

刚被发现的时候，根本没人它感兴趣，认为只是个跟一本大字典差不多大小的生锈金属块而已。

A lot of people are kind of amazed, that I know how to pronounce all these words, but I don't, I read them from the dictionary.

很多人觉得我很神奇，会念些难词，但其实我不会 我也是照着字典读。

And I often look up new words in a dictionary.

而且我经常在词典中查阅单词。

Em, yeah. That's a good idea and also I thought maybe, you know, a set of dictionaries. I heard him say he needed a good one.

好的，好主意，我还觉得一套字典也不错。我听他说他想要一套好字典。