Online dictionaries are becoming increasingly popular. More and more students and workers in the education industry use online dictionaries to assist their study and work.

The popularity of online dictionaries can be mainly attributed to the following two aspects. Firstly, com-pared with paper dictionaries, online dictionaries have many advantages, such as voice pronunciation, original example sentences, translation function, and richer vocabulary, which makes language learning and information searching more convenient and faster. Secondly, the life of all classes in the society trends to be digital, which allows people to use online dictionaries more frequently through mobile phones, computers, tablets, etc., especially when they read electronic documents.

In a word, online dictionaries are good for people’ s study and work. But while enjoying the benefits of on-line dictionaries, people should also realize the shortcomings of various online dictionaries and should not completely rely on them.