Abstract Online dictionaries provide unique possibilities to both dictionary makers and users, in particular in the following areas (cf. Granger 2012: 4ff): Accessibility of data, multimedia functions, customization, hybridization, user-input and storage space. This article investigates the extent to which these opportunities have been exhausted in current online learner’s dictionaries. It demonstrates that the vast technological opportunities of the internet are only beginning to be fully exploited. While storage space, for example, is already being used effectively to provide additional example sentences and collocations, the dictionaries under investigation offer partly unsatisfactory functionality in terms of data accessibility and several other areas.

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面向英语学习者的单语在线词典和电子媒体的机遇：一项批判性调查

摘要 在线词典为词典制作者和用户提供了独特的可能性，特别是在以下领域（参见 Granger 2012：4ff）：数据的可访问性、多媒体功能、定制、混合、用户输入和存储空间。本文调查了当前在线学习者词典中这些机会被耗尽的程度。这表明互联网的巨大技术机会才刚刚开始被充分利用。例如，虽然存储空间已经被有效地用于提供额外的例句和搭配，但正在调查的词典在数据可访问性和其他几个方面提供了部分不令人满意的功能。