Linguee.com/Linguee.de

... or the web as a dictionary! I haven't tested this yet, but it basically helps you to check terminology, phrases and sentences in a bilingual environment, i.e. English-German, German-English. Read the authors' description of this FREE service, test it and tell us what you think (use the "comment" option as, unfortunately, we won't have the chance to meet again in our translation/interpretation class this year):

"What is Linguee? With Linguee, you can search many millions of bilingual texts in English and German for words and expressions. Every expression is accompanied by useful additional information and suitable example sentences.
What is the benefit?When you translate texts to a foreign language, you usually look for common phrases rather than translations of single words. With its intelligent search and the significantly larger amount of stored text content, Linguee is the right tool for this task. You find:

• In what context a translation is used
• How frequent a particular translation is
• Example sentences: How have other people translated an expression?

By searching not only for a single word, but for a respective word in its context, you can easily find a translation that fits optimal in context. With its large number of entries, Linguee often retrieves translations of rare terms that you don't find anywhere else." (www.linguee.com)