He always carried a dictionary, and when he heard a new word like "submarine" or "hypertension," he immediately looked it up.
他手裡則隨時拿著一本漢英字典，碰到不會譯的字，立刻查字典，像潛水艇（submarine）、高血壓 (hypertension)、芹菜 (celery) 等，都是他在同學閒聊時聽到的，立刻查閱字典、然後背下來，這對他日後從事口譯有很大的幫助。