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Lingro: Look up definitions, translations on any page
The definitions are culled from publicly available dictionaries and user contributions filed under a Creative Commons license. So if you find a word without a definition, a message will pop up asking if you'd like to contribute one. Of course, the odds of your clicking the word if you already knew the meaning are pretty slim (unless you're say, writing a review of Lingro).
You can also use Lingro the old fashioned way, by visiting the service's home page and typing in a word or entering a web address to translate. There's even a service that lets you upload a file from your desktop for translation into another language.
Honestly, we didn't have much luck translating entire web sites. But Lingro's dictionary definitions and single word translations seem pretty good.
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Christina Warren said 9:23PM on 6-10-2008
OR you could use Safari for Mac which has built-in system-wide dictionary support (thesaurus and Google lookup too). ;-)
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Minko Kissiov said 8:34AM on 6-11-2008
Or you can download the app from Answers.com and not only lookup words and terms in a web page but also on any text or document editor on your computer. Also it is Vista compatible. I thought it was pretty cool.