怎样使用词典?(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,...