In the past decades, the development of new technology promotes the increasing need of students and other customers, electronic dictionaries are becoming more and more popular. Despite these electronic dictionaries may have some minor¹ disadvantages, comparing to their advantages, people are willing to use them.

在过去十多年里，新科技的发展促进了学生和其他顾客日益增长的需要，电子词典变得越来越受欢迎。尽管电子词典存在一些细小的不足，但是和有点相比，人们还是愿意使用它。

On the one hand, electronic dictionaries are extremely portable and light-weight, they can contain numerous words and messages, which may up to one million words, even more. If a paper dictionary contains the same messages, it will be very large and heavy.

一方面，电子词典非常便于携带和轻便，它们可以容纳很多单词和信息，达到一百万的单词量，甚至更多。如果一本纸质的词典包含同样的信息，就很变得很大，很重。

On the other hand, electronic dictionaries work very fast. When we want to check the words, we can type the words, and then the words will be found in no more than three seconds, how convenient it is! Just work as the computer does, it also safe us a lot of time. While with a paper dictionary, we have to go over the book, and then find the word amongst hundred words, this takes us a lot of time. Electronic dictionaries make students work efficiently².

另一方面，电子词典运行很快。当我们想要查单词时，可以输入单词，然后单词就会在三秒钟内找到，这是多么方便啊！就像在电脑上一样，也让我们节省了很多时间。然而对于纸质词典来说，我们要翻阅书本，在上百的单词中找到词语，花费很多时间。电子词典让学生提高学习效率。

Electronic dictionaries also have disadvantages, such as sometimes they give the wrong message, sometimes the message is not overall. But despite the flaws, people like to use electronic dictionaries, in the future, they are the students’ first choice.

电子词典也有不足，比如有时候会给予错误的信息，有时候信息不全面。但是尽管存在缺陷，人们还是喜欢用电子词典的，在将来，那将会是学生的第一选择。