时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:礼节美语


英语课

  Robert正在向中国来的同事Penny 1介绍理解和掌握单词的经验。

R: You could buy an English-language magazine about news or fashion. Read through the articles and underline 2 and look up the words you don't know. Then read the article or sentence again after you know what the words mean.

P: So the sentence will help my brain remember the word?

R: Yes, I think it does.

P: I sometimes have a hard time with grammar. I just can't remember all the verb 3 tenses and other little rules.

Robert建议Penny看英文杂志,把不认识的单词划出来,查字典,underline and look up the words you don't know. 知道意思以后再回过头来重读一遍。Penny说有时觉得语法很难。

R: You know something? I'd say forget about grammar in the beginning. Focus 4 on understanding and communicating. To tell you the truth, I'm still fuzzy on quite a few English grammar rules myself.

P: But eventually my grammar will improve, right?

R: Certainly. Through reading and speaking you will sort of pick it up automatically 5. And you know something else?

Making mistakes is one of the best ways to learn, grammar included.

P: Ah...but it's so embarrassing 6!

R: Exactly! Getting embarrassed 7 helps us remember things!

Robert让Penny上来先不要管语法,通过阅读和交流,语法自然会慢慢掌握。You will pick it up automatically. Robert两次说到,You know something? 意思是,告诉你吧。他觉得,出错是学习的最佳途径之一,Making mistakes is one of the best ways to learn. Penny说,那多丢人啊。It's so embarrassing. Robert居然说,这样以后才不会忘。

R: And one more thing: some people try to translate from their mother tongue while speaking. I've found this is a bad idea. It slows you down. Languages are usually quite different from each other so it's not really a help.

P: So I should just say it. Even if it comes out wrong, right?

R: Yep. You can also keep a notebook and when you hear or see something you don't quite understand, write it down and look it up later.

P: Ah, I already have a great dictionary in my cell 8 phone! I use it everyday.

Robert反对说英语的时候从母语,mother tongue,直接翻译过来,因为这样做只会,slow you down,放慢你的速度。Robert还建议Penny随身带个笔记本,把听到看到的生字记下来回去查。Penny说她手机里就有字典,而且每天都在用。



1 penny
n.(英)便士,美分
  • I will not lent you a penny.我一便士都不愿借给你。
  • Sugar has risen a penny a pound.糖价每磅涨了1便士。
2 underline
n.下划线;加下划线;vt.在…下面划线;强调
  • Underline all the sentences you do not know.在你不懂的所有句子下面划一条线。
  • Please underline the noun clauses in the passage.请用线画出短文中的名词性从句。
3 verb
n.[语]动词
  • The sentence is formed from a verb and two nouns.这句子由一个动词和两个名词构成。
  • These are the finite forms of a verb.这些是一个动词的限定形式。
4 focus
n.焦点,焦距;vi.聚焦,注视;vt.使聚焦,调焦,集中
  • She was the focus of everyone's attention.她是大家注意的焦点。
  • The noise made it hard for me to focus on work.噪音让我无法集中注意力工作。
5 automatically
adv.不加思索地,无意识地,自动地
  • The machine cycles automatically.这台机器自动循环运转。
  • She had automatically labelled the boys as troublemakers.她不假思索地认定这些男孩子是捣蛋鬼。
6 embarrassing
adj.使人尴尬的,令人为难的v.(使)窘迫,(使)局促不安( embarrass的现在分词)
  • His jokes didn't even raise a smile, which was embarrassing. 听了他讲的笑话,都没人笑一下,真是太尴尬了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I was in the embarrassing position of having completely forgotten her name. 当时我完全忘记了她的名字,很是尴尬。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 embarrassed
adj.尴尬的,不好意思的
  • He was very embarrassed to hear people speak so highly of him.他听见别人这样夸他,感到很难为情。
  • He is somewhat embarrassed.他稍微有点窘迫。
8 cell
n.区,细胞,血球;小室,牢房;电池,光电管;基层组织
  • Soap destroys the cell walls of bacteria.肥皂破坏细菌的细胞壁。
  • They have locked the prisoners up in their cell.他们已把犯人监禁在小牢房里。
学英语单词
abnormeth
account books
achi baba
aeronautical broadcast station
air potato
allocation of sample size
aminoisobutanol
antifoulants
Ballyfeard
bilicyanin
bills receivable discounted
biologics
bisected circle
booty call
bore surface
brake stopping distance
brand naming
breaking down shovel
burnner block
care-worn
caridi
carry something on
chartr
chemiotactic
chin-wag
chordater
chrosiothes taiwan
colloid osmotic pressure
conagulator
Covington County
dakars
degree of spring habit
demurer
dendrite growth
derivation (of water)
dibotryal
double thread hob
electrogas process
eptatretin
fashionability
FDF (forced-draft-fan)
floating balance
Fosbury-flop
freezing press plant
graminoid
gutshall
gyri circumflexus
holders(body-worn)
hunt the slipper
hydroxylated oil
incorrigibility of data
inner stroke
intersity grid
lablets
laws and regulations
Linah
lyricized
Léguer
macabee
Marangoni number
mass-marketed
memory operation
micro-earthquakes
milk bottle capper
moshavim
neutraceuticals
nonpermitted
omobranchus punctatus
over-proud
paedotribe
pet-care
pipe her eyes
powder for small arms
praecoces
pyrochemistries
qualified librarian
quiet title
rapid infiltration
regum
remote manipulator
Rolleiflex
rolling gate
scatterbrained
septate
sodding hell
solublecored oil cooling gallery
spamblocking
spife
spoerri
static calibration of balance
sumiyoshi odori (japan)
territorial claim
the pecking order
transition knuckle
trip hitch
universal navigation computer
unsuccessful outcome
vessel tonnage
wave-length meter
yesterneven
yongu
zengotita