After consulting several dictionaries he finally thrashed out the meaning of the sentence.

Dictionaries are indispensable in English study.

学英语,词典是少不得的.

There are two dictionaries on the table.

桌子上放着两本词典.

The library has called in all the dictionaries.

图书馆把词典全都收回去了.

In the meantime, consult dictionaries and memorize grammatical rules.

同时还要查阅词典,记语法规则.

Dictionaries can broaden people's knowledge of a language and guide them to use words more effectively.

字典更能增广人们对某种语言的知识,并引导他们有效地使用文字.

He sent her some books, together with a dictionary.

他送了她几本书, 外加一本词典.

They are revising a dictionary.

他们在修订一部词典.

The phrase is labelled as slang in the dictionary.

这个短语在这本字典里被注为俚语.

Not being sure of the word, he turned it up in the dictionary.

他对那个词没有把握, 于是就查字典.

This dictionary will enable better international understanding.

这部辞典将促进国际间更好的理解.

Your dictionary is good, but mine is even better.

你的词典好, 而我的更好.

You'll have to hunt up the word in the dictionary.

你须在字典里查找这个字.

This dictionary is 100 yuan, postage included.

这本词典连邮费共100元.

a dictionary of mathematics

数学词典

Some words are too infrequent to be worthy of inclusion in the dictionary.

一些单词的使用频率太低,没有必要收入词典.

Would you please pass the dictionary on to Mary?

请你把这本词典传给玛丽,行 吗 ?

Perhaps this is behind Thoreau's dictum: In wildness is the salvation of the world.

也许这正是梭罗的这一断言的隐含意义: 人类的救世主是大自然.

He cites Augustine's dictum that'If you understand it, it is not God'( Joseph Sobran )

他援引奥古斯丁的最后声明 ‘ 如果你了解它, 它就不是神了 ’ ( 约瑟夫·索布兰 )

Yet Kissinger succeeded in defying an old Washington dictum that you can have in the capital visibility or influence, but not both.

在华盛顿有一条传统格言:要么抛头露面,要么得势弄权, 二者不可兼得. 基辛格却公然蔑视这种传统.

It is an honour to use their own interpretation of this dictum.

很荣幸能用自身来诠释这句名言.