方靖 The Chaos

这个时代，网络在我们生活、工作、学习中所作用越来越多。辞典，作为一个受过良好教育的人生活的必备，也渐渐从厚重的大部头书籍搬到了网上。而网上辞典由于不受体积的限制，其所涵盖的知识又是传统辞典所难及。作为一个奔走于异地的学子，随时携带辞书乃力所不及。然幸生于当代，有了方便快捷的网络，传统字典的烦琐便可抛诸云端了。在我一年的对网上辞书的探索后，筛选出了以下几部常用的，希望能给有需要的朋友一点帮助。另外由于网上资源的多变性，这些信息恐怕只适用与当代当时，和不远的将来。但希望这些优秀辞书网站能再接再厉，给社会创造更多便利。

汉典
http://www.zdic.net/
一部广博而细致的中文辞典。作者旨在弘扬中华文化。分为字典、词典和成语典。收字很全，多过新华字典、现代汉语词典等常用辞书。释义古今皆收，包括说文解字、康熙字典等，并附字源。另有英文释义。

Dictionary.com
www.dictionary.com
收有Random House Unabridged Dictionary，The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language，Online Etymology Dictionary，WordNet®，The American Heritage® Science Dictionary，The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary，Investopedia，Wall Street Words，Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary，Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary，The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary等。界面也比较整齐清新，是比较推荐的一个网站。

Answers.com
www.answers.com
集结了大量辞书的一个网站，不仅包括词典，还有很多专业性极强的辞书，适合做专业研究的时候查询。由于涵盖面极广，可以做到一步到位。Answers.com将辞书分成多个领域的categories，方便使用者查找自己需要的一个领域的辞书。录有McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms，The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language，McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction，A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology，The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia，The Austin Symphony，Wikipedia，The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary，Translations by WizCom Technologies Ltd等等（很难举穷）。

Online Etymology Dictionary
www.etymonline.com
词源网站。作者是一位作家及编辑，他在参考了多部相关著作后修改及总结得到了这部词典——网上第一部英语词源词典。Jorge Luis Borges说词根是种神奇的东西，当你习惯用这部词典来深究词汇的深层含义的时候，你也一定能有如斯体会。此资源在Dictionary.com中也全部收录。

Wikipedia
www.wikipedia.org
这个我就不用多说了，每天有成几十万人使用的人人都可以编辑的巨大百科辞洋。虽然其内容是变化的，但由于出现纰漏后迅速会得到其他浏览者的更改，况且它永远不删除过往的版本记录，故已经成为一部非常具有权威、表现了各种人们不同观点的名副其实的百科全书。词资源在answers.com中全部收录（但更新并不很及时）。

Inogolo
www.inogolo.com
英语发音字典。载有常见和不常见的人名、地名及其他的发音。

方靖

Months ago when the Windows Live domain live.cn was introduced to China in addition to hotmail.com, people rushed to register accounts that suits their most desired usernames (their names, where they live, etc.). In days many accounts bearing popular Chinese names had been taken and those who fail to get their first choice had to redesign their user-defines.

 

But did they need to? Days ago I just registered my new Windows Live account bearing my exact full name, which is quite a popular spelling in China. But how? Obviously it had already been taken under either hotmail.com or live.cn or even live.com, which is a United States domain, however, scores of Windows Live domains lies out there!

 

On this webpage http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/11/14/register-windows-live-id-with-hotmail-livecom-or-windowslivecom-or-local-domains/, you can find a list of localized Windows Live domains. Someone may exclaim, “The interface’s in Japanese! How can I use it?” No worries. The Windows Live services supports all its 35 languages whatever your domain is! That means even if you registered a Hotmail address ended with live.co.kr, which is localized for Korea, you can still change the interface to Simplified Chinese and use it completely no differently from an account registered under live.cn, except that you have your favorite and easiest-to-remember username now! Of course, the registration page and default user interface have to be shown in the local language, but such interfaces are identical among different languages, thus you may well refer to the same page in your own language in another tab to finish the registration and initial language setting.

 

Other than looking for the localized registration pages from the webpage mentioned above, you can also find it on your own by changing the webpage language preference in your browser. This does not change your browser’s interface, so you do not need to worry about failing to use the browser correctly after the change. As in Firefox, click through Tools>Options>Content>Languages>Choose, and select any a language that Windows Live offers to add to the languages of preference. Move the newly added language to the top of the list then click OK. Go to register for Windows Live at www.hotmail.com and choose the localized domain.

 

Besides these localized domains, Windows Live also has other customized domains. Following is a service offered for India (but non-exclusive!) by Windows Live to register Windows Live accounts under quite a long list of domains: http://www.coolhotmail.com/whoi_am.asp. They work the same as any other Windows Live domain.

 

My new Windows Live account was registered under live.hk, and I already have my full name perfectly as the username for Windows Live. Why don’t you get yours now?

 

Fun Fact: Hotmail, the essence of Windows Live services, wasn’t initiated by Microsoft! See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotmail#.

 

Han