① look up后接要查的具體項(xiàng)目,如word,address,time,telephone number等。
You can look up the poem in this book. 你可以在這本書中查找那首詩。
② consult指查閱參考資料/書,如map,dictionary,encyclopedia(百科全書)等。比較:
look up a word in a dictionary在詞典上查一個(gè)詞
consult a dictionary查詞典
比較
“查字/詞典”不可說look up the dictionary,因?yàn)閐ictionary是查尋的地方,不是查尋的對(duì)象,要說成look up the word/a word in the dictionary。