Dictionaries

At my home, there are various kinds of dictionaries. There are some English-Japanese dictionaries, some Japanese-English dictionaries, Japanese dictionaries, Kanji dictionary, a proverb dictionary, a French-Japanese dictionary, a history dictionary and so on. Some of them are in the dining room. When my parents hear the unfamiliar words on TV, they use the dictionaries to know the meaning of the words or their origin.

I have an electronic dictionary. Usually I use it to study English, but sometimes my parents want to use it. It covers about 20 kinds of dictionaries. Especially an encyclopedia is useful to look up the people or places.

My mother also has an electronic dictionary. It covers only three dictionaries (an English-Japanese, a Japanese-English and an English-English). She has used it regularly for a long time. A few days ago, it was broken suddenly. She pushed the power button as usual. But, she could see only some black lines on the screen. At first, she thought it was caused by shortage of the battery. So, she changed the batteries. But, it did not work. She could not give up using it, and she tried to turn on the switch or changed the batteries again and again. Even now, it did not work. Finally, she gave up and decided to buy a new one.


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