posted by LS701 on October 16, 2014 | 4 comments
Below is my own list of dictionaries I most often use... Any other suggestions?

I currently use:

dict.baidu - probably the best I can find

dict.cn - okayish

linguee.com - very good for main EU languages, but still needs work for CHI-ENG mathces

yellowbridge.com - I HATE this website. It is so full of ads it actually starts to slow my comp down drawing on tonnes of CPU - and they ban you from using adblock. I refuse to use it unless I'm desperate.

zdic.cn - okay

iciba.cn - reasonably good dictionary for financial jargon

The above are okay, but not great. I like that baidu has lots of example sentences. But there are lots of words and phrases they seem to miss.

For example, what does 绕不过 mean? I really don't think this is a difficult CH word to translate to English. However I'm not certain about the translation: I guess it means "can't get around sth"/"can't avoid doing sth"? But I cannot find an English translation on any of the above online dictionaries I've listed. I find this pretty lacking.

On the other hand this ENG-GER dictionary certainly would have something like this phrase http://www.dict.cc/

Does anyone have any other suggestions for online CHI-ENG dictionaries

PS Sorry if this question has been asked a million times already :(. I tried the search option for CHI-ENG dictionaries on the popupchinese homepage but it just gave me the translation into Chinese, not search results from the forum/website... So if this question has already been asked, i can't think of a way of finding the answer.

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1141588113 on November 15, 2014 | reply
hello!~ i am a chinese , and i relly want to make friends with english speaker . my email is 1141588113@qq.com . and you can improve your chinese . i can improve my english .haha
583480035 on January 27, 2015 | reply
maybe youdao dictionary有道词典 is popular, but it's an app,not website.

im a chinese,but when i first see 绕不过,i cannot make it clear either,because i suppose its meaning should be linked to the completed sentence.
susana.takac on February 28, 2015 | reply
www.mdbg.net
davidwilljack on March 3, 2015 | reply
www.linedict.com does it for me