I'd like to recommend you a fast way of finding translations of English words to Lojban, using the most up-to-date Lojban vocabulary, jbovlaste.
Suppose you want to find the translation of 'bench'.
Just type in your browser
http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/natlang/en/bench
and see the translation!
Any English word will be looked after this way, too.
mi'e .ianis.